Forgetting where you left your keys does not mean you are “losing it”

I’m a place for everything and everything in its place sort of person!
Years ago, the Bursar where I worked had to deal with his wife who had rapidly developing dementia, she was such a lovely lady. He said one day that it wasn’t so much her forgetting where things were, but what they were for. He would get a couple of mugs out and a jar of coffee and she would just blankly stare at them.

Once, about 3 years ago, I got into the shower and for the life of me I could not recall how to operate it. To be honest it scared me silly for days afterwards. The sudden panic and awareness that I just didn’t know how to switch it on. It freaked me out I can tell you. I worried about it for days afterwards in case it was the start of something serious.

Never happened since - with that or indeed anything - I’m thankful to say.

In answer to the OP, forgetting where you left your keys may not mean that you’re losing it, but it does mean you’ve lost your keys, temporarily at least…

Think we need to do some more bumping of normal threads as we’re being taken over by spam again.

I think that sometimes it’s not that we simply forget, it’s that we haven’t registered whatever it is in the first place.

Some things are so routine (locking a door, switching off the tv…) that we don’t register having done it. How many times have you double-checked that you’ve closed a window or locked the back door because you can’t be sure/remember that you’ve done it?!

I've always had a thing about forgetting names. I can remember minute details about someones life and family to have a conversation and its just the name.