
How Clutter causes Stress and Anxiety
(and What You Can Do About It)
We’ve all been there. You come home after a hard day’s work and you’re greeted by mess. Everywhere you look, something needs to be cleaned up, or tidied, or moved.
We’ve all been there. You come home after a hard day’s work and you’re greeted by mess. Everywhere you look, something needs to be cleaned up, or tidied, or moved.
Good article. Perhaps another time you could address the problem suffered by people with anxiety and depression, who cannot function enough to clean house some days. When you already are depressed, you can look at it and feel so overwhelmed that you literally cannot move your body to do it. No matter how much your mind wants to!
This article is definitely relevant for me. I think the clutter in my home causes greater depression. It makes me so frustrated seeing the ‘junk’ in my life! I live alone so I know it’s all my mess. The music tip is super helpful – having some favorite music playing really helps me accomplish a lot. And trash bags! I love being able to fill up a trash bag and carry it out of my home – it helps me feel like I’ve made some progress in junk removal, even if it’s just a small part of the big pile. My latest obsession is finding ratty clothes, shoes, linens and towels, because the local girl scouts use textile collection as a fund-raising effort, so I don’t feel guilty giving away that old icky stuff that I won’t use or wear. I don’t have time to do ALL the de-cluttering in one day; but it’s so high on my To-Do list that I look forward to being able to block out several hours of personal time to make a dent in it at least once a week. Maybe by end of summer I will have gotten rid of this stuff I accumulated in the past 25 years! I hope so!
Very true Trish I also live alone and have a full time business. After a recent Car accident, my energy is zapped but I take one task and complete it but I may rest for 5 mins in between until task is done. If any energy left I may start on next task/ clutter but will rest in between but only a 5 min rest! Hey it gets done right? Hook luck!
No matter how bad a mess it is, set a small goal like one table top aka “dining room table clear”. You’ll feel good that you accomplished something. Give yourself a treat (not junk food or something that’s not good for you). Tomorrow “clean off the hutch cabinet and vacuum the dining room”. After that, celebrate that one room is done and write it down and put it on the frig. Some things may take a week, some, one evening. Walk through the dining room for inspiration. You might want to put a big folded note / sign on the table, “DON’T even THINK of leaving that here!”.
I’m older now and have pain issues. So I HAVE to stop. I can’t go full tilt anymore. I am also not focused like I used to be. I find clutter to be overwhelming yet I can’t seem to get it together anymore. Ugh. I think I’ll try putting stuff in a box or bag and see how that goes. Getting older and losing fo us sucks! LoL. I used to be neurotically organized. Those days are gone.
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