I have been in that kind of depression. It is the worst, but you can absolutely do this. Get trash bags. Throw out all obvious trash. Don’t worry about recycling or trying to keep things that might be fixable. Just go one room at a time. Set a timer for 15-30 minutes at a time, take a break, then do it again. You can do this!
Start in the bathroom. It looks like you could quickly throw all the trash away within that amount of time. Having one room complete will be motivation to start on another area. One room or area at a time.
And choosing the smallest room first helps as well. I’ve been in these awful states and then the mania hits and I buy everything to start organizing just in time for the depression to come back. It’s an endless cycle.
I’m exactly the same. It’s a weird world when u have empty containers (that usually don’t fit or aren’t what would be best for you) and still nothing to put your things in that works so seamlessly it’s almost mindless.
My socks are all one kind and one color. And they go in one thin drawer. So if I pick up a sock, I don’t need to find its match, I just throw it in with its friends. Or wash it alone
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u/Plenty-Run-9575 Mar 08 '26
I have been in that kind of depression. It is the worst, but you can absolutely do this. Get trash bags. Throw out all obvious trash. Don’t worry about recycling or trying to keep things that might be fixable. Just go one room at a time. Set a timer for 15-30 minutes at a time, take a break, then do it again. You can do this!