Carol you wrote: “So why do I put stuff somewhere it doesn’t belong, and think I’ll remember where that is? Am I trying to drive myself crazy? To what purpose?”
Have you considered you might have a dissociative disorder? The new nomenclature for the old multiple personality disorder? I’m convinced I’ve got one of these alternate personalities lurking around my house looking for a way to disrupt my obsessional-compulsion behaviors (no I wouldn’t call this a disorder yet, not enough long-term symptoms to qualify). I mean I’ve already failed at depression. According to WebMD I’ve either got one of the Top 10 or Bottom 10 depending on your point-of-view kinds of depression. I have maybe 2 of the symptoms. This means I have Subsyndromal Depression if I can maintain my two symptoms of eating too much or too little and not sleeping at night for two straight weeks. Don’t think I’m going make it. I keep falling asleep.