Losing things: Gotta find it!

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When I misplace something, I am overcome by a sense of urgency and HAVE to find it as soon as possible. I enter panic mode, I cry and I yell. I can't think about anything else until I locate the item. This is especially severe if I have misplaced something like my keys. Back when I lost my purse a few months ago, I was in absolute terror and panic until it was found (minus $20 and my lucky $2 bill which they could not have stolen without seeing my ID. they lived in my dorm, a building with only 200 people. they knew who they stole from )

Anyone else experience this?

Bullseye.

Over the years, I've developed my system. I hang things on my walls. Horizontal never worked well for me. And, as expected, I check my pockets very frequently. Far from a problem, I almost never misplace anything. I don't know how so many people choose / live with chaos, I do not have the ability to tolerate chaos.

Nothing pisses me off like losing things, which is ironic because I lose everything. You should see me renovate some time. Whatever tool I was using 15 seconds ago, it's lost now.

Oh God yes! I've wasted hours upon hours and strayed too close to the MD zone over a wallet or keys I just set down. Literally cannot move past it until I rip the whole place apart to find I laid something on top of it without thinking

YES, yes and yes!! !! Losing things is upsetting on so many levels, regardless of how major or minor the item is. I get an irrational fear that the universe (or whatever) is conspiring to completely hide the item.....I worry that something was stolen, all kinds of crap go through my head.

I am the same, the moment I put something down it is lost, if I look away then back again it never seems to be in the same place!

I also get very stressed out if I need to find something quickly, and can "never see for looking" as my grandma used to say

Oh yes this is me. For someone who likes to know where things are, I lose stuff a lot. I crave neatness and organization but I struggle with it. My house looks neat, but if you open the drawers it's all a jumble. Today I have lost something really important but I am too tired to get properly upset about it.

I hardly ever lose anything, but I misplace stuff all the time, and I absolutely hate it. I used to get really anxious about it, but these days I have more faith, and being calmer, I find things again more quickly.

It amazes me how efficiently I can misplace things. Couldn't do it better if I were doing it deliberately.

Why does it happen? Short-term memory trouble? I don't know. What seems to happen is that I put a thing down automatically, without thinking about it at all, while I'm focussing on something else. So not surprisingly there's no memory of where I put it.......it was an unconscious action. Mostly I find things in the places I'd expect to find them....I have to think back to what I was doing and wonder "where would I have put it?" But sometimes I find stuff parked in the most illogical places.

I wish I had a servant. I could get him to watch me carefully and to train me to focus on where I put things. I'm sure if I just gave it that moment's attention when I put stuff down, I'd have a lot less of a problem. And training the mind to do such a simple thing doesn't seem conceptually difficult.

Losing things annoys me so much >:o especially since I tend to lose the thing a few minutes before placing it somewhere

Yep and I ask St Anthony for help. He's the patron saint of lost objects. I say "Tony, Tony, come around. Something's lost and can't be found!"

Sometimes I find it, sometimes I don't.

Yes, when I loose something I truly become a different person; not a nice one. I usually remember previous places that I put it, but cannot remember the [i]last[/i. Place I out it. I think it's a lack of short-term memory and excellent long term memory.

I am the EXACT same way! About the memory thing.

it's comforting to know I'm not the only one who goes ballistic when something is misplaced!

Yep. I panic and begin to have really bad anxiety. I won't be calm until I find it, or someone tells me to think rationally or not worry about it.

good idea! i hang some stuff up but not enough. if it's something i need i have to find it. (i try to remain calm and recall)

i usually have a feeling of desperation right before i find it, like my brain knows it's about to tell me where it is but at the same time makes me feel despair. that is only for things i have lost within a few days at most