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I will say.... since my thyroid condition was diagnosed, I am wanting things more tidy. Not a lot more, but with 2 tiny kids, their toys all over, drive me bonkers. If the trash even looks too full, I make dh pull it out. Just bleh.

Part of my reasoning about cleaning, is I have bad, bad arthritis, from surgeries as a baby. And at (almost) 42, it has caught up to me. I have the arthritis from my neck down to my ankles. The worse being my back, hip and knees.
I try and try and get it through my husband's head... it takes one toy, one piece of paper for me to go flying to the floor. Sadly, he would would rather live in a stye, so when I feel good (random), I work at cleaning and vacuuming and such.
I am not sure which scares me more, falling and cracking my head or a full blown Grand mal :/ So I do try... but I have a lot of days the pain is so far out there :( I can barely move and it stinks!

 
I have also heard that depression is linked to messiness. and since E can be depressing, I think that may have soemthing to do with it.

When people are depressed, they dont want to do anything. So they leave things to rot essentially.
 
Eliza and everyone else-Don't give up. Don't let this beat you you up.You are better than this. You are more. You are more than the Epilepsy. You can take things one thing at a time and not get overwhelmed and stop when YOU want to NOT when the STUFF wants you to. YOU are WORTHY as a person. I hope that this encourages you today. : )

Tina
 
It does/can get overwhelming when the house goes from clutter to mess. :( Even my husband has said this.
And while he doesn't do near as much as I do (he will clean maybe twice a year-and when he does it, he is always angry.... like "how did it get like this". Very weird to me), we're working together to keep it not messy.
Sadly, I need his help, a lot (especially since my muscles are tightening. I can't even lift a light bag of trash to go into the bin outside or drag the bin to the curb) and it really irritates him.
 
I definitely have the disorganized thing going.... but I've always had it. It seems a little worse on the meds. Every week or too, I have an OCD moment and have to clean it all up and put everything back in order. Of course, I have 4 kids at home... so maybe that has something to do with it.
 
All I've got to say is I NEED TO HAVE A YARDSALE. No one can really help me do it and the 1 person who might be able to help will see some of the stuff that they bought me that I want to get rid of. It's not that I'm not a sentimental person and just get rid of stuff because it takes up space, I'm quite the opposite. I would seriously rent a storage out and save every gift given to me. I save ALL my holiday cards. I have a couple of boxes in the garage. People spend so much money on them and they usaually say really sweet things. If you're ever feeling down take out those greeting cards.

Also, I think that some sort of motivation will help clean. It's easier to clean when people come over. When my husband is telling me that it would really help him out if I washed the containers for his lunch. That kinda motivates me because he's so wonderful to me. Hope it gets better.
 
RachelinAZ said:
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
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Are you and I mairred to the same man????

I'll put stuff in places, I'll usually remember where I put it but sometimes I will forget. But as you said, I'll put something somewhere and my husband will end up moving it. Then we end up getting into a fight because I can't find it and I should know where it is.

Finally when the thing is found he'll say "Oh yea, that's where I put it. Where you had it was stupid and this is where it should go!"

Fimaliar :ponder:
 
Oh yeah that happens in my house with keys and cell phones he likes to keep them on kitchen counters and bookcases for some reason and i like to keep my keys by the door...the bookcase thing... never made sense to me for some reason he thinks everything needs to go on the bookcases! As for saying where you had it was stupid he needs to watch his language you are not stupid and neither is he you both just need to come up with a solution that works for both of you together. Maybe try it "his" way for a while? It might work? Unless it really is in a crazy place like the bathroom.....

Tina
 
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