So today bereavement brain caused me to...

[Rainatnight]

...put my DD's nappy on inside out, causing completely inexplicable wet trousers (till I realised what I had done ).

As a result, I'd start a thread where we can share the stupid and disastrous things we've done as a result of our brains not working properly cos of bereavement.

Oh sorry - about me - my DF died last Monday after a short and fairly brutal illness. See? My brain is not working properly

Sorry, Rain.

Bereavement brain has left me underperforming for about a year- dad died in Jan, but was ill a year before that.

I can't think of anything specific. But yes, totally non functioning brain. Just dopey, dozy, generally slow.

Oh my I thought it was just me. It takes me hours to do anything. I go into a shop and I forget what I've gone in for. I start conversations and lose track half way through. I have no idea what day date or even month it is. It is like my life is on hold.

I'm not back at work (yet) but very worried how im ever going to function as a grown up again. Lost my brother 5 weeks ago. Still in a statue of shock and disbelief I think.

7 weeks since I lost my Mum. I had my first driving lesson the other day and straight after I rang her. I bought her a birthday present a week after the funeral as I momentarily forgot she was dead. Ive fucked up constantly at work as I can't concentrate on anything. Grief sucks.

Nearly 2 years since my sister died, and I still regularly go to send her a link to a song she'd like.

And I have lost my car numerous times, and can't keep up at all with work.

So sorry about your DF, Rain.

Sorry for your loss.

My mum died in an accident a few years ago and the shock and pain were too much to deal with for a long time. I own and run a business with my dh and found keeping up with the paperwork, which is my role, was very tough.

The most memorable/awful thing I did was not to pay one of our staff for 3 months! He didn’t say a word and I not found out when our accountant asked me why i hadn’t paid 😮. The man in question is a close friend of ours anyway and said he knew I had a lot going on and that he knew I would pay him eventually. That was by far the worst thing I ever did..