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What are you like when you are stressed out?
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<blockquote data-quote="Nancy" data-source="post: 535637" data-attributes="member: 59"><p>This came at an appropriate time as I was looking for easy child's social security card and passport because she needed it for a summer job. She looked all over her apt and I looked all through our important document file and couldn't find it until I found the folder I made for her called easy child's Important Documents, lol. So I guess I'm losing my mind.</p><p></p><p>Anyway easy child always forgets things and I keep telling her to make lists, carry a small notebook in her purse and write down what she needs to remember and every day go over the list to see what she still has to complete. Or keep her calendar in her smartphone with reminders and alarms set. Or get a daily planner and carry it around like her bible and write everything in it. But she continues to forget things and then gets upset with herself for forgetting. She's missed dr appointments and had to pay for them, she's forgotten to pick up my market day food and one month I lost $90 of spoiled food because it sat out all night. </p><p></p><p>I forget things a lot too but I know that is a weekness so I make lists all the time and cross things off as I do them. I even send myself texts and leave the alert on so I have to keep looking at it. I write things on my calendar by my phone and look at it several times a day. I even send myself emails and keep them in the unread file so I don't lose them. For me I think it's old age. When I'm under stress I actually remember things better maybe because I'm on hightened alert. But easy child does not and I feel bad that she makes so much more work for herself. I know sometimes when I tell her something she is not paying attention and I can tell she will not remember it five minutes later so she has to focus more carefully on what is happening at the moment instead of thinking about other things.</p><p></p><p>Nancy</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nancy, post: 535637, member: 59"] This came at an appropriate time as I was looking for easy child's social security card and passport because she needed it for a summer job. She looked all over her apt and I looked all through our important document file and couldn't find it until I found the folder I made for her called easy child's Important Documents, lol. So I guess I'm losing my mind. Anyway easy child always forgets things and I keep telling her to make lists, carry a small notebook in her purse and write down what she needs to remember and every day go over the list to see what she still has to complete. Or keep her calendar in her smartphone with reminders and alarms set. Or get a daily planner and carry it around like her bible and write everything in it. But she continues to forget things and then gets upset with herself for forgetting. She's missed dr appointments and had to pay for them, she's forgotten to pick up my market day food and one month I lost $90 of spoiled food because it sat out all night. I forget things a lot too but I know that is a weekness so I make lists all the time and cross things off as I do them. I even send myself texts and leave the alert on so I have to keep looking at it. I write things on my calendar by my phone and look at it several times a day. I even send myself emails and keep them in the unread file so I don't lose them. For me I think it's old age. When I'm under stress I actually remember things better maybe because I'm on hightened alert. But easy child does not and I feel bad that she makes so much more work for herself. I know sometimes when I tell her something she is not paying attention and I can tell she will not remember it five minutes later so she has to focus more carefully on what is happening at the moment instead of thinking about other things. Nancy [/QUOTE]
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