Six ideas before breakfast

I just finished reading a book in which the main character laments that in his youth he used to have six good ideas before breakfast, and in his current time and space, he's lucky to have one good one a month. It really struck a chord with me. Lately it doesn't seem like my thinking processes are up to snuff. I've been waiting for a particular thought for about three weeks now, and I didn't get it until today. In the past all I had to do was think around the parameters of the problem and give myself some room to think in, and I could feel the answer coalescing, now it just feels like there's nothing going on upstairs. It doesn't help that the past week has been one of the worst that I've had in several years, but that's not the issue, and may even be a symptom, rather than the problem itself.

I used to wish I had an outlet for the creative energy I felt, now I just wish I could get the energy back.