During her psychotic episode Genna developed a sort of algorithm to help her remember her daily tasks, as she often forgot to eat or sleep.
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So I was getting really distracted and I wasn’t able to take care of my daughter so I started writing down the steps I should take to take care of her. So I created a standard operating procedure that first I had to check whether my health was okay but I had become so dissociated from my body that I didn’t know if I was hungry or thirsty unless I asked myself the question. So question 3.1 was, “Are you hungry?” and then I would answer “yes” or “no.” If it was “yes” then I’d go get food. If it was “no” then I’d go to question 3.4. That’s how I was having to take care of my daughter because I was so distracted and not able to stay focused.
Interviewer: So you made like an algorithm for what to do?
Yeah and then eventually, I don’t know, step four or something was sleep and I wouldn’t go to sleep unless I had made my way through the algorithm, the standard operating procedure until it was sleep.
Interviewer: Wow.
And my family was getting really frustrated and saying. . .they just knew I needed to sleep, that I wasn’t getting enough sleep because I think I was getting like an hour or two a night. I wouldn’t feel comfortable sleeping unless I went through my standard operating procedure to sleep. So that was another key sign was the insomnia and the writing down of what was happening and the confusion and the distraction.
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