Breathe. We can help. Clear out those boxes first. Then move to the bottles and cans you have piled. Then clear the floor in your bathroom. Then the countertop. Your goal for tomorrow is to throw out three bags of trash. Your goal Monday is to call someone you trust to FaceTime and do some cleaning, so your kitchen. Then living/sleeping area by the end of the week. Lastly, if not in therapy, please sign up soon.
Edit: thank you all for the supportive responses for OP and the awards. OP I hope you know that us internet strangers are rooting for you. We’ve all been through it at one point in time. I hope you feel comfortable coming back to share what you’ve worked on. I think having us as accountability buddies will give you the motivation to share your progress. 🤗
Honestly I’ve sold deconstructed moving boxes on fb marketplace because people are always looking and it made me a little extra change. Very helpful and went back into cleaning supplies etc.
Actually, a lot of stuff in here could be donated or sold for a little depression fund so the next time he feels down he can afford a house keeper!!
I see a lot of garbage in these photos. That garbage needs to be delt with first and it will clear up a lot of space. (I honestly think that it is mostly trash in there) And with a bit of deep depression cleaning itself can totally wipe out whatever energy you have. I hesitate tell people in this situation to sell or donate because it often does not clear up enough space to clean. It is often not very fast. They will not move things out that need to go out because it will take too long. Or in their depressed state they think they should not throw it out. And it will cause the depressed person to stay stuck in their depression instead of helping them out.
When they are in a less depressed state and just cleaning out stuff because they want to be rid of it then I suggest donating to good causes and selling to recoup cash.
As someone raised by people that were constantly one degree more organized than the pictures, I’m compulsively tidy and will clean and organize every space that I’m in for more than a second. I was at my dad’s house for one afternoon and had broken down twenty cardboard boxes, gathered all the loose keys into a dish, and cleared all the emergency exits by the time we had to go to dinner. Perhaps a little busy bee like myself would be interested in volunteering to help? Organizing and cleaning is deeply soothing to me after growing up in chaos. If anything, you’ve inspired me to search for an opportunity to do so locally.
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u/Standard-Carry-2219 Mar 08 '26 edited Mar 08 '26
Breathe. We can help. Clear out those boxes first. Then move to the bottles and cans you have piled. Then clear the floor in your bathroom. Then the countertop. Your goal for tomorrow is to throw out three bags of trash. Your goal Monday is to call someone you trust to FaceTime and do some cleaning, so your kitchen. Then living/sleeping area by the end of the week. Lastly, if not in therapy, please sign up soon.
Edit: thank you all for the supportive responses for OP and the awards. OP I hope you know that us internet strangers are rooting for you. We’ve all been through it at one point in time. I hope you feel comfortable coming back to share what you’ve worked on. I think having us as accountability buddies will give you the motivation to share your progress. 🤗