Yep nope The stuff you're chalking up to being space cadet is PTSD. So you are making sense, and no, you're not being loopy. hehehehe

yes, with PTSD, your brain has stopped catagorizing material properly... if at all. It's like it quit filing all the pages we send it... and they stack up and topple over and we rarely find what we want ...

repetition and discovery and understanding is what it takes to retrain the brain (change chemicals back) to something more useful for us... and to quit REacting about stuff connected to a trauma...