I'm messy ,But Determined...

[OverwhelmedInPdx]

I live alone, 2,000 miles from any family. I suffer from severe depression. I was diagnosed with ADD about 4 years ago.

I have a new resolution. I will sort through 12 garments per day: Yes, No, and Maybe. Then I will see what remains, and organize what's left into a wardrobe.

Then there's everything else.

[HiddenBarb]

Dear OverWhelmed
I'm sorry I haven't been on the boards lately - you know how distracted we ADDmirable women can be. Just got busy doing other things.

I do hope you are feeling better. Depression and ADD - like the chicken and the egg - which came first !! They do go hand in hand.

It's so hard to let go of things, but it does feel good once they are out of the house. I've had to move my Mom several times lately. She doesn't realize how many times I have to touch each one of her gazillion items. Out of closet/cabinet, onto table, into box, lift box, carry box, lift box, take item out of box, lift item take to new closet/cabinet, place item.

After doing this soooo many times, I've decided to get my home so that if someone walked up to my door and offered to buy it at an outrageous price, I could be out in three days. Not that I'm going anywhere,but I just decided that would be my goal. I've still got a lot of work to do, but I am making slooooowwww progress.

Good luck.

[TracyC]

I'm such a messy person that it just really disgusts me. I spend a good part of my day going from one mess to another and not getting anything done because I get distracted by something stupid all the time. It has improved since I started taking meds but I guess it's never going to go away completely. I take Adderall and it has made it easier for me to cope...most days anyway. I'm so embarrassed at how messy my house is and it's been like this for years...literally. I am slowly starting to get things done now.

[Cindy]

Hi, you guys......I am thinking of how messy we all are....(I think MY house would win the prize).......not to minimize that messiness is a problem for us people with ADD----but-----everybody in this society has trouble, also, with all that we hussle and bussle around for, especially if we have children or are caretakers, otherwise. Nobody's house is perfect, I'll bet. And we just have a harder time with our messiness----it's never-ending. BUT......let us be gentle with ourselves now and then and let it be ok to have a mess once in a while. It can get overwhelming to the point of immobility-----I've done that a lot. I guess we even could laugh at ourselves for being in such a predicament!!

But really-----look at it this way......if we knew a friend who had ADD, we would tell them to not worry so much about it now and then, wouldn't we? Let's treat ourselves like we would that friend.

Is anybody getting stressed out about the Thanksgiving holiday coming up and relatives visiting? It is hard for me to "be myself" around even my relatives.
...Cindy

[jaimegerise]

Well, I'm taking this week to do some MAJOR cleaning here at my house so that I don't have to worry about folks coming for the holidays.....and I am already POOPED! Got half the house done and the rest to go....

[scattyschats]

Gidday all,
Got to ask how much is the right amount of stuff. Absolutely admit to owning my messiness, but constantly consider I mustn't have enough/ the right/ competent storage options. My and all the rest of the family's clothes is constantly in the lounge room, in the process of being folded and put away. Is it the system, the lack of time, lack of delegation( tough on a two and five year old!) or too much gear? Hubbie tries to help from time to time only for me to go off my tree because he's mixed up play shorts with school shorts or good shorts. Hardly criminal! Approaching this stuff logically sometimes makes it harder to figure out but probably the time I'm spending debating technicalities could be wiser spent on a different focus...or so I hear.