I'm a mental illness lifer. Diagnosed with anxiety, depression, and childhood ADD at age 9. Later therapists believed ADD was a misdiagnosis and that my inability to focus and lack of motivation we're actually symptoms of my other two diagnoses. I agree with this.

I consider myself a pretty intelligent person with decent common sense, but I can't go anywhere without leaving something behind, be it a phone charger, reading glasses, my wallet, etc. It's become a running joke with my friends. I also seem to lack spacial awareness and I'm always knocking things over, running into people and so on. I forget important dates and tasks often and walk into a room and immediately forget what I was looking for all the time.

My brother also shares in my clumsiness, not sure about the other things. It's funny because he's very athletic and a gym rat so his clumsiness is non-existent when he's playing a sport. Same goes for me. When I'm riding my bike or working out, I'm suddenly graceful. When I'm in a flow at work or on a project, I don't forget things, I don't run into objects, I don't have silly lapses of judgement. I'm just really on my game.

We both have anxiety and I feel like, for me at least, all this can be attributed to it. The worse I feel mentally, the worse the "ditziness." Any suggestions on what I can do about it?