I barely slept at all, last night. I just couldn't shut my thoughts off.

My osteopath says that I need to get up at the same time every day, even if I didn't get enough sleep. When I got up this morning, my whole body was stiff and sore.

I made myself do yoga and eat breakfast (when I'm really tired, food is the last thing I want). Neither helped the pain. I'm trying to "grin and bear it", because if I take a Vicodin, nothing will get done. They take the edge off the pain, but turn me into a zombie. On top of that, I'm getting a headache that feels like it could go migraine on me.

I've got a full list of stuff I'm supposed to get done today, and I have no energy or mental capacity to do any of it.

If this sort of thing happened only occasionally, it would be one thing, but it happens several times a week. The workload piles up more and more, until I get completely overwhelmed, and I cannot do any of it. You can imagine what that does to my stress level and self-esteem.

Even now, Mt. Washmore beckons, and I'm hiding from it.