ADHD person here. And I’m just so drained from spending hours meticulously looking for (essentially) $20.
It’s not about money — I’ll live without the $20. I’ve just lost so many important things in my life so many times that it drives me absolutely fucking insane. Seething, heart thumping, muscle flexing rage.
And what makes things worse is that I take measures to prevent this from happening. So when I still lose things, the failure just cuts twice as deep.
Not looking for any solutions atm. Just venting to folks who might get it while I physically recover and let the loss go. Thanks all.
Something similar happened to me when I was thinking about something, then I got distracted and I couldn’t remember what I was thinking about any more. And I had to return to my previous steps to recover that thought, in vain most of the time. The mental and physical drainage is beyond description.
And the worst part about losing some object is that it can perfectly be in front of your eyes the whole time and you don’t even notice that. It happened to me many times too.