I’ve been diagnosed by my former therapist but I feel things are getting worse these days.
I mean, I have my vape in my hand, and one second later it’s nowhere to be found. Maybe it’s in the bedroom where I swear I haven’t been in the last 5 hours. Maybe in a bathroom cabinet. Maybe on the table but I wouldn’t tell because my fuckin brain is incapable to discern any object in the middle of clutter.
Is there a strategy to remember where I’ve put something I was holding? It’s gotten to the point that I’m getting preemptively mad when something I’m looking for is not where it’s supposed to be because I know I’ll have to turn the flat upside down just to find it, just to lose it again a few minutes later and/or do the same song and dance for the next thing I need.
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Get rid of the clutter, which means you periodically get a trashbag and throw out the stuff you don’t need, or donate it if you think someone else will actually be able to use it.
Those tennis shoes you thought you might use for yard work 3 pairs ago? Toss them, no one is going to use them, not even you.
The leftover craft supplies from the time you thought painting would be a relaxing hobby 5 years ago, donate it.
It all goes out the door and into the dumpster or donation facility that day, no hanging on to piles to take another day.
The problem is in the spaces I don’t control. My wife is messy, my infant daughter even worse 😓