I can't read; I can't listen to music; I can't watch TV; I can't go for a walk; I can't even bring myself to reply to e-mails.

It's like there's a wall in the centre of my brain. Things can't go from one side to the other. Anything I try to do, like watch TV, just hits the wall and bounces back out again. I can't focus. My head hurts and I want to sleep, but I know if I do that I will wake up feeling worse.

I feel like my brain is numb. I don't even feel connected to it anymore, if that makes sense. I feel like a prisoner in my own body.

Last night I started getting this stinging, prickling pain in the side of my face, as if somebody was jabbing needles into it. It's still there this morning and I've no idea what it is. It's spreading up to my ear and down my neck, making the side of my face numb.

I just needed to vent that, I think. Thank you everyone who replied to my previous thread. I was reading and touched, I just couldn't reply.