nementia – n. the post-distraction effort to recall the reason you’re feeling particularly anxious or angry or excited, trying to retrace your sequence of thoughts like a kid gathering the string of a downed kite.

I’m pretty level headed, but sometimes I over-react to something and may get angry, upset, etc. Sometimes I have to go through the process, but often my wife might interrupt the thoughts, asking me to go through some nementia and figure out why I reacted this way.

Like the rest of us, I’m human, I do silly things, and I sometimes can’t figure out why I reacted that way.

From the Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows