What are we talking about? I used to teach this as part of my A Level Psychology course, and I figure (despite its limitations), that it's a good tool:
Here's the thing - it's really hard to do that brain stuff that you need to do when you're hungry, tired, thirsty, or scared of basic stuff. So if you're suffering from low brainwidth, deal with a couple of the lower rungs of Maslow first.
In a brain-flap? Drink some water. Right now. Get some water in you. Okay, now you've dealt with that, how do you feel about carbohydrates? That's good news - here's a cookie*. Right, now we've dealt with that, what do you need to do next? Is this an emergency, or can it wait until you've had a nap? Okay, well, have another cookie* and let's work out the rest of this.
In other words, you need all the resources you can actually get hold of (instead of punishing yourself for feeling bad, coz that works excellently well as both a long- and short-term strategy...) in order to deal with brain stuff.
I am crabbit at the moment, partly because my sleep is off and I've been in an amount of pain (though better today due to yesterday's interventions), partly because Everything Happens At Once seems to be one of those things. I'm feeling overwhelmed, in short, and I'm going to write a poem about it full of emotive symbolism and all but, in the meantime, I'm going to deal with what's in front of me so that I can deal with things a few steps away. And this may also mean telling Everything Else to back off a couple of steps, thanks.
I will eat lunch shortly, and go to the gym tonight. I will then eat well and early and I will sleep, by all the gods, because the world's a more dangerous place when I haven't.
And now, just to cheer you up, a picture of a crabbit (alternate definition):
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* substitute dried fruit/ banana/ boiled egg/ whatever works for you at this point.
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