This is the correct amount of effort for a thread like this.

Photograph everything before you open it. Ten seconds, settles most disputes.

Is it normal to feel worse before better? Nobody told me that.

Photograph everything before you open it. Ten seconds, settles most disputes.

Test one thing at a time. It feels slower and it is the only way to learn anything.

Bring a list. Embarrassment makes everyone forget things, including you.

You are not imagining it and you are not being difficult. Document it and take the document in.