I took a medication that tanked my intellectual abilities once and it was TERRIBLE. I was in graduate school at the time and I actually got 'stuck' on something

I took a medication that tanked my intellectual abilities once and it was TERRIBLE. I was in graduate school at the time and I actually got 'stuck' on something for the first time in the sense that I had a project and needed to accomplish something but couldn't think of how to do so. (As opposed to my usual, which is knowing what I'd need to do but feeling no motivation to do it...) It was very unpleasant. If the feeling is anything like what most people feel when they're thrown into a conversation over their level, then I don't blame them for hating it. I'm sure discussing color theory with aliens with more cones than humans would hurt my brain; that's probably what my interests are like to most people. It sucks.