jesus, this is spot on
anxiety
Take Photos of Stove Dials Before You Leave for Vacation
…before leaving the house, take a photo of your stove and oven dials—or your thermostat, or your iron, or anything else you worry about accidentally leaving on. If your brain starts to play the “Did I really turn it off” game, you can simply tap your photo app and see for yourself
Reblogging to save a life
I also like to take photos of letters before I send them!
Hey
Does anyone else have like. Anxiety-related memory problems. Like, after you do something, you start wondering if you messed something up or did something wrong, and you get really anxious over possible mistakes you made and you genuinely can’t remember if you made those mistakes or not?
Like for example maybe you write someone a letter and then after sending it you start imagining you made some terrible mistake and despite the fact that you yourself wrote and proofread and sent it, you can’t remember if you did or not?
It happens to me a l o t and it’s terrible and scary because I can’t trust my own memories when I’m anxious
If I’m sending a letter these days (it’s rare but it does happen) I always take a picture of it with my phone camera before I send it, so I can look at it whenever I want and think “Oh good I didn’t send anyone a note riddled with insults and slurs after all”