(((birdpumkin))),

Even without a PTSD diagnosis, you have been involved in a complete change in your environment and daily routine with that environment. Your subconscious mind is much like a blind man with a cane that gets so used to the environment that much of that environment is memorized where the blind person can function in that environment without actually seeing it. That is the same as learning how to tie our shoes where at first we need to pay attention to every step as we tie our shoes and eventually without even realizing it we can tie our shoes and not even have to pay attention to it because our subconscious mind learned how to do it automatically, we developed a set pathway in the brain where we just know how to do it.

Well, you are still totally adjusting to your new environment, and while it is nice, your subconscious mind is still looking for that old environment that was just there and automatic for you. Well, you are distracted right now "still" with adjusting to the new environment so that is why you are often not paying attention to some of the other things going on around you as you used to.

I have addressed this even with my ponies when I move them to a new paddock. They get distracted for a while and even don't pay attention to me and that is simply because I put them in a new place where they have not yet developed that deep sense of just knowing how to feel safe in their new place.