Lately I have been doing really stupid things because of my poor memory. Today I left my stove on for 11 hours when I left the house. I did this a few weeks ago too. I have made a decision to not allow myself to cook anymore, because of the safety involved. But I have also done stuff like left my door unlocked, left self harm objects in bed with me, drank left out milk. The other day I almost used my dogs frontline in a recipe, because I use an old vanilla extract bottle to keep the leftovers. Luckily I had the letters in bright red FL on there. I figured it out.

I know I usually have a poor memory, but I can't risk my entire apartment and other people's lives (and my dogs life), because I can't remember to turn off my stove. I have no idea how it happens. What I'm doing when I take the food off. How I don't just turn the knob. Like it's obvious.

The first time I left what was cooking on there. It was veg broth, then when I got home 2 hours later after suddenly remembering the chicken broth was cooked to almost nothing, but otherwise I was lucky. Today I made myself egg beaters. I got done making the food, but I have no real memory of taking it off the skillet or even eating it. I remember pulling the bread out, because I felt the one edge and I thought maybe it was getting stale. I was gone at a family function for 11 hours. And I got home and I saw the light on and then saw it was turned to med-high. I freaked out. I got lucky twice now, I'm not risking it anymore.

Does anyone know how to like work on this stuff? Is it a communication problem among the system? Am I switching too frequently? Is it just poor memory period and nothing to do with dissociation? Is there anything I can do to communicate at least really important stuff?