This is one of the reasons I can't work at all. I have what's called CRS---Can't Remember S***. My pdoc says it's not dementia, which I feared, but rather a combination of repeated bipolar episodes and the meds I take to treat it. I'm very stable now but my short-term memory is shot. I lost my last job because I couldn't learn the computer program. I can quote you the lyrics from a song that came out in 1968 but can't tell you what I ate for lunch today, or even if I ate lunch at all.

You may want to consider going on Social Security Disability if you've got enough work credits. Trying to explain your mental health problems to a potential employer is fraught with danger; as a PP said, why would someone hire a person with a disability if they can hire somebody without one? It may not be fair, but neither is life. I feel for ya, hun. Hugs.