Worried about dementia at 35

I have been extremely worried about early onset dementia lately. I am 35 and I will start by saying that I have always been an extremely anxious person and a major hypochondriac. A couple weeks ago, I found a charger box by my window sill that I had no recollection of ever putting it there. I asked my boyfriend and my older son and they also had no clue. The only thing that I can recall is that night I was putting up my Christmas tree and as I was doing that, I was also emptying out a box my boyfriend had from work and I vaguely remember a charger box in there and I must have just been doing so many thing that I can’t remember (that’s me reasoning) anyways, I completely let it go but then I started googling things and came across dementia and now I am noticing so many things like, I can completely forget parts to a conversation from a few days ago, I found a Christmas tree ornament on the table and no one knows how it got there (of course in my mind it was me) I also sometimes am in a conversation and I’ll feel like I’m snoozing out (like in in a trance and thinking of other things) honestly, I only really notice these things at home. When I’m at work I feel okay. I have never had the best memory but lately I feel off and maybe its because now I am suddenly thinking of it because I am always googling symptoms and things. I also just had a baby 6 months ago and it may be due to stress, lack of sleep and all the joys of having a newborn I have been on ambien for maybe 2-3 years and I was off of it while I was pregnant and back on when I gave birth. I stopped taking it recently because I know it can cause some memory lapses... but I need some advice… I am so worried I cry all day thinking I am going to die in a home alone and out of my mind ☹

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