How to Clean Your Interior House when You are Depressed

Clean Your Interior House
Clean Your Interior House

Why is it so hard for depressed people to Clean the Interior House? That’s a great question and we’re going to talk about that today. So, if you find yourself depressed and you are not able to make a dent in cleaning yourself, we are here to help you out in this situation.

There’s everybody there from carpet cleaners to window blinds maintenance, professional organizers, there’s junk and hoarding removal, there are house cleaners, there’s a whole bunch of people that are designated to help you get your place back up to a living standard.

Why is it so hard for Depressed People to Clean- Reasons

The priorities are eating exercising and taking a shower. And it’s very difficult for a depressed person to even get out of bed in the morning. So, in the morning, you feel like you’ve just been hit by a truck, and cleaning up your house isn’t even on the radar. That’s one of the reasons it’s so hard to clean when you’re depressed.

When you take off your clothes, you don’t feel like putting them away so they go on the floor or the back of a chair or the back of a sofa. And they just keep piling up.

A lot of guilt is associated with that because you know you should pick up after yourself and you know you should put things away.

So you feel guilty because, “Oh, I don’t feel doing it,”. Feeling bad creates more depression. And so it’s kind of a vicious cycle that feeds itself.

So it’s very hard to be depressed, but it’s very hard just to live day-to-day life. So, one of the things that I would recommend is if you’re having a problem cleaning your house because you are depressed, don’t worry about cleaning the house right now.

Keep in mind cleaning the entire house right now is going to be an overwhelming task. If you start to unravel things and you don’t get them put away. It’s only going to feed the guilt and the frustration that you already have.

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So my suggestion for you is this, you have to take care of yourself first.

You cannot take care of your house, you cannot take care of your family until you can take care of yourself first.

Motivation for Cleaning little Stuff

So if you’re having a hard time cleaning, forget about the cleaning for a minute.

Get out of bed, get on a pair of shoes get out the door, and go for a brisk walk. It’s going to be one of the hardest things that you do because you do not feel like it. But once you get out and you start walking, and I’m not talking about sauntering along the road, I’m talking about a brisk walk.

If you get out and you start going for a brisk walk, that’s going to activate a bunch of neurons in your brain and you’re going to get oxygen flowing through your blood and it’s going to help you breathe better and it’s going to build self-confidence.

Why do You need Exercise for Cleaning

When you exercise, you feel better because you release endorphins.

It’s a natural drug, it doesn’t cost anything, and going for a walk is free.

When you come back from your walk, before you take a shower, do one small task. One small task like washing the dishes. That’s it.

  • Don’t clean up the whole kitchen.
  • Don’t put all the food away.
  • Don’t worry about going through the cupboards.
  • Don’t try to do everything at once, do one small task.
  • Once you’ve cleaned up the dishes, now the goal is to maintain those dishes.

Just one small responsibility, do the dishes. And so every meal, do the dishes. It’s easy. Easy!

Don’t Be Hasty little done is a bitter start

The rest of your house can be chaotic for a minute, that’s okay.

The important thing is that we take care of you and you do one small task.

If you feel better and time will happen if you keep exercising and you keep going for a brisk walk every single day, you may come back and feel like doing two things.

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And it might take a couple of weeks to get up to this point. It’s going to be a slow progression. But when you get to the point of you feel like doing something else, then add one more small task to your plate.

Add one Small Thing to Your Cleaning Task

Make it a point to do one small thing in addition to what you’re already doing.

And so now it might be the clothes.

And like I say, there may be stuff strewn all about, don’t worry about that stuff right now. We’re going to do the dishes and we’re going to hang up the clothes after you wear them or hang your clean curtains. And so, if we do small, small tasks, we can build until we’re doing more and more.

Don’t Be ashamed of Yourself

There may come a time when you decide you want to hire someone to come help you. The problem is that most people that are depressed don’t hire house cleaners for this reason. There’s a lot of guilt associated with having someone else come into your house and see how you live.

Some people will call house cleaners and then they cancel on the house cleaner before the house cleaner gets there because they’re so ashamed and they’re so fearful.

It comes from a home where the parents were uber tidy.

They were like super, super, super tidy and they demanded that the rooms were always clean and that there was never anything out of place. And so it’s almost a revolt against the parent.

You are Unique on this Planet

If you’re on this planet, somebody created you and you are worthy of being here.

Now, if you take a small child and he’s crying. Even a tiny child is worthy of love and attention and you know, a clean house and clean space and clean diapers and food and all these things need attention.

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So, as a grown adult with all of these skills and information that you have, with all the resources that we’ve been given, you are worthy

and you deserve a clean place to stay.

How to Deal Your State of Depression

If you are in a state of depression because you feel bad, that is an illness that needs to be dealt with.

 I need you to record a message to yourself that says, “I am worthy. I deserve a clean place to stay.” And then record it as if you’ve already accomplished it.

“My house is beautiful and it’s clean and it’s shiny and it’s polished and I love waking up in the morning and I bounce out of bed with energy.”

And say it as if you have already accomplished those things. Here’s what happens, if you listen to it over and over. What happens? Your mind starts to believe it and then goes in search of things that make that true.

So when you wake up in the morning, instead of feeling like, “Oh, I just got hit by this truck and I’m so exhausted.” You wake up and you’re like, “Hey, I feel great!”

You Deserve a Clean Place

If you are here on this earth, you deserve a clean place to stay and you deserve however you get there. Whether you hire someone or a cleaning company whether you do it yourself or whether you enlist help from family and friends. I don’t care how you do it, but over some time you will start to recreate the space that you’re in to have it be in alignment with the stories that you’re telling yourself.

It may take some time by battling with yourself. But if you will start by getting out and going for a walk, that will be a starting point for you that will revolutionize the rest of your life, I promise you that.

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