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Do you ever have a hard time with cleaning or organizing things like the house, office, work, and etc. Well, I'm a stay at home mom and I have the hardest time cleaning and being organized. I just wonder if my epilepsy or medicine is effecting the way I clean or my disorganization. Does anyone else have this struggle or something similar like this?
 
oh yes...I often just have a hard time just getting started around the house to begin with but I have always been this way. However the ironic thing is that I am very very organized at work almost to the point of being OCD. lol : ) Oh and I hate being late to anything.... I always like being 10-15 minutes early to anything it drives my husband bananas. Anyway I digress.

I have found though the website Flylady.com most helpful she has great tips and is very encouraging. Her tip about using a timer is most useful. I set it for 15 minutes and just do a task (dishes,folding clothes,whatever...) and I find I do not overwhelm myself this way and then I can just focus on this one thing and then take a break for 15 minutes or do another 15 minutes of work if I am not too tired. She also breaks your house up into zones for you so you dont have to and tells you how to declutter. She breaks things down into very easy manageable steps. She always says don't beat yourself up it did not get there in 1 day and it will not go away in 1 day this is a process 1 day at a time. you will get there. She battled her own fight with depression she has been there herself.

Check it out it has really helped me. Flylady.com

tina
 
I'm also a stay at home mom, and I'm exactly the same as you. I'm so organized, infact, I have lost the letter from the hospital with my neuro appointment on it, and many other things lately. This only really started when I started on Lamotrigine.
 
Oh heck yeah.

I've spent hours cleaning my small 1 bedroom & a guest told me "it's not too bad, maybe take an hour & you'll have this place looking great".

I finally hired a cleaning lady not because I'm lazy but because she can do more in a couple hours than I can in a day.

I've also been pretty bad at procrastinating, especially when it comes to organizing or cleaning.
 
I'm pretty organized in general, so I don't think I can blame the seizures or the meds for my messy home. In fact, the first month I was on Lamictal it made me hyper-focused -- for a brief amount of time I was more organized than I've ever been in my entire life! Labels on everything. Too bad that side effect didn't last...
 
Now that I think about it even though I'm disorganized in many ways and am impatient with myself because of it, I've learned to compensate in other ways. A good example would be that I always have a small pad & pen with me to compensate for memory or to organize my brain with lists. I always refer to it when I'm out & don't know what to do but I just can't get in the habit of checking it when I get home.
 
Oh my goodness! I don't even invite people into my home so they don't have to feel embarassed for the way I live.
3 little ones, daily seizures and a husband who often has to pick up the slack and take care of the kids and he has a full time job....
Don't ask me when the last time I scrubbed the tub.
Toys and laundry piled everywhere.
A pair of glasses found in the tree fort after we bought a new pair 8 months ago to replace them.
Dishes that have to wait until the next day because I have fallen asleep after clustering.
It's the biggest struggle in my life.
Shoes. It's so hard to find matching pairs of shoes because the dog likes to pick them up and take them places.
I know where my meds are though! And everybody else does too. I'll get phone calls...it's 7:30, have you taken them yet?
I don't know if it's the meds or that I'm worn out. I also know that with little ones it's a losing battle.
But the house is always the first to go. Health and happiness come first.
 
When I was an office manager in an accounting firm - for 23 years - I was VERY organized. This is when my seizures were the worst for me. I would have an aura, then the simple partial seizure. No one ever knew I was having a seizure..they didn't last long.

How that I'm at home all the time and started having trouble with energy, my organization habits have went out the door with my memory I might add.

This has been an area that gets to me, I'm one of those who wants everything in its place.

SOOOOO I send (it seems) 1/2 of day looking where I put something.

I never thought this had anything to do with E. or my medic. just put in pile with getting older.
 
Im the opposite, I need my stuff organized! My husband years ago told me I had OCD! I have a place for everything! Im so organized that i have the neighbors asking how I do it with three kids? :lol:
 
Oh don't you just love those people that just say just apply yourself for a whole hour and you will get this room clean? Oh if only it were that simple! Must be nice. If you don't have to deal with a mind that does not have multiple distractions like we do or tiredness from drugs etc... Ah people just don't understand.

Tina
 
I am organized in my own way... I call it.... organized, dis-organized. :/ AS long as no one touches my stuff, I can mostly remember where I put it... but if it is moved even a foot.... I go ape... :/ I think for me, it is repeating where I put stuff, so I know/remember.
My husband will move something "where it goes" to normal ppl, but it isn't normal to me :/ and he has the memory of a (well he has no memory... he drives me bonkers.... he is smart, but can't remember where he put stuff). To say the least... LEAVE MY STUFF ALONE PLEASE.... :) he tends to forget that a lot :/

make sense? LOL
 
I am usually not very organised. But I spent ages going round my flat today making sure it was tidy.
It doesn't really need doing but I will put some bleach in the mop bucket and mop the kitchen and bathroom tomorrow.
I'm not expecting any visitors tomorrow so I had no need to bother with all that. lol But at least it's done now so I'm happy.
 
tinathesingergirl said:
oh yes...I often just have a hard time just getting started around the house to begin with but I have always been this way. However the ironic thing is that I am very very organized at work almost to the point of being OCD. lol : )
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LOL I'm the same way!
My house has always been cluttered and then I freak out and clean when people come over, but my cubicle at work is so organized and I dust my desk and computer like once a week, and I prune all my plants so they look nice, and my notebooks are in a neat stack, and all my office supplies and folders are organized in my drawers... And it annoys me that I need to be so organized at work but I can't get motivated to be that clean at home. Maybe because I actually spend more of my day at work than I do in my waking hours at home.
 
everything has a home, and is always goes into the same place,
and into the same pocket when i get dressed.
helps cut down on my losses.
 
Lol,hell no,im certainly not organised.I usually leave everything untill its such a mess ive got to spend a whole day cleaning and sorting everything back up.Ive tried to change many times,alas to no avail.
 
I actually have OCD - crippling OCD (not just a neat freak). In fact, I'm on disability for this. I used to be so organized that if I'd have been blinded in my sleep, upon awakening I could have easily located my favorite pair of Lucky Brand jeans in a neatly stacked pile of 20 jeans. My seizures went haywire and undiagnosed for so long though that my OCD ended up increasing exponentially, and now my house is actually cluttered and disorganized. If OCD becomes too severe this will happen because the OCD-er spends an enormous amount of time on one small task, so everything else suffers.
 
I'm so disorganised!

I sleep so much that in between working and sleep my flat tends to get messy. I usually clean up when i have days off. It's quite a large two bedroom flat too and i have two large bird cages in my living room. I have to hoover quite often because of bird feathers.

When i actually get down to it it doesn't take long, but i must admit that my bedroom suffers. It looks like a clothes bomb has gone off in there!

On the bright side (i think), nobody ever sees it apart from me :roflmao:
 
Well I m very neat and organized. But I noticed since I been taking Keepra I don't want to do anything and I give two craps about being neat ad organized. I don't think I answered your question.
 
I am UBER organized. almost OCD like when it comes to anything outside my house. At home, I dont seem to care, so my place is pretty messy.
 
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