@Sapien

I’ve accepted recently that my memory is just bad and will probably always be so. I have to write lists, like physical lists, if I have any important things to remember. So if you know there’s a question you need to ask, maybe write it down and keep it with you? I also use my phone for a lot of things. I enter every appointment into the calendar and if I need to do something important I set a reminder because there’s just no way I can keep stuff in my head anymore.

As for affirmations I have found them to be very helpful BUT I have to write my own. General hokey ones don’t work for me. So if I need to hear that I deserve respect or I deserve to be loved, whatever, I write that down, multiple times if necessary. For me it’s just figuring out what I need to hear in the moment and then telling myself exactly that.