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I am going to take a different tack here that might not be popular, there likely isn't a way you can stop this tendency from meaningfully impacting your life in a stressful way.
You can, as you have mentioned, notice the emotional hardship that happens from experiencing this cycle over and over again. The grief and exhaustion that transmutes into anger in the moment you realize you can't find something and finding it is going to be another wild goose chase can really hurt you over time, it is important to validate those emotions and give them their own space so that they don't become intertwined with your basic mental cycle of trying to find things.