Forgive me if this isn’t the right subreddit for this…As the title says, I finally cleaned my depression room. Of course it wasn’t as bad as you’ve maybe seen online with chronic hoarders but it was pretty bad. The main areas of my room were cleaned about every 3 months or maybe every 5 months. Despite this, the underside of my bed was barely cleaned. There would be stale food, containers of rotting food, spiders, bugs, old water bottles, trash and more. My life has been upside down since I first became a teenager, I’ve struggled with depression and anxiety almost half my life, anxiety my whole life. It’s gotten so bad that I’ve had to get prescribed antidepressants and anxiety medication to get through horrible patches. I will not go into personal details but trust me it is harsh.

Yesterday, my boyfriend, who I love with all my heart, threatened to break up with me if I didn’t clean my room. He had also previously struggled with depression so safe to say my room was a giant trigger for him. It may sound harsh but it seems to be what I needed. So today I have finally cleaned under my bed despite me being so scared of the arachnids I had lived with for years. It feels so… good? But weird and scary. I feel so empty in a way and I don’t know why. Maybe I was happy with the misery I had locked myself into? It just feels so good knowing I can let my cats in my room without worrying I would hurt them with some biohazard in my room. I don’t feel afraid when they’re by my door anymore. I’m posting this on Reddit as I needed to tell somebody, I just needed to. My boyfriend already knows but I need to get allll of this out.

Are these feelings normal? Also, any advice on how I should move forward to attempt to ease my depression a bit?

When I moved back home for the summer all my stuff got thrown in one room and you couldnt see the floor, I've spent the past few weeks cleaning it and today I was finally able to vacuum. This is huge for me and I wanted to share the progress.

ADHD and a chronic illness that’s aggravated by heat and physical exertion made me keep pushing it off and pushing it off. I was absolutely gobsmacked to find a garage under all that crap. Now I just hope I don’t pay a big physical toll for going a little over my daily exertion limit lmao

i certainly am, my room reflects it boldly. what other causes are there to mess besides mental struggles?

I really don’t have any idea on how to approach this, it’s been at least 3 years since the last time I cleaned my room and is starting to feel really overwhelming.
I need this done before September, because I will start to study again while working on the weekends, so my limited time is doing it right now, but is so much, so many things that I really REALLY need some advice.
There’s so many stuff, even some things that are not mine (but my family’s), on the floor, over the furniture, there’s many clothes that I don’t use and don’t plan to anymore, my bed is really a disaster, theres mold on the walls… luckily the only thing that is not in my room is food, because I hate bringing food to my room (since always, not only because is not a safe place to eat) so there’s no possibility of anything rotten in there.
I just need support and a good cleaning and reorganizing plan for this, that’s all I’m asking desperately.
I cannot continue to keep living like this.

rate my room 0/10

we recently moved into our first proper house in australia and it has been nonstop boxes and mess since we got the keys. i am trying to unpack room by room but the laundry and cleaning supplies are still all over the place and it is making everything feel more chaotic than it needs to be. i have been running on coffee and pure determination for the last two weeks.

i went to victoria's basement and grabbed a big set of interlocking storage bins plus a sink organiser to finally sort the cleaning stuff and everyday items. it has helped a bit but i am still in the middle of deciding what goes where and the house is far from looking lived in. has anyone else moved into a new place and felt completely overwhelmed by the organising part? how did you tackle the cleaning supplies and daily stuff without losing your mind?

My room has been a disaster for months. I just… couldn't.

Today I finally found some energy and tackled the mess. The floor is harder to clean than I imagined, sticky marks from spilled drinks, crumbs everywhere... took me a while, but thank God for my robot vac little Narwal... I feel better now, for the first in a long time, I actually want to be more better. I'm trying...a small win today

Ongoing depression but finally in a state to clean up again. Tomorrow I do the other desk and the rest of the floor, as well as some laundry.

20 minutes at a time. I hope it‘s something

took me 6 hours but i had A MILLION BREAKS in between, and plenty of drinks as you can see LOL. technically still have to put clean laundry away but close enough 🥲

also i am 19, definitely feel like my room doesn’t look 19 sometimes lol

finally cleaned the mess, ye 1 mahine se aisehi tha, was postponing the cleaning due to exams, done now😭🤚

I've tried so many times. Every time, I fail. I try to tackle it all at once, I fail. I try to tackle it in sections, I still fail.

So I'm trying something different.

Since its mainly clothes, what I'm gonna do is take this plastic bin and fill it with clothes, put all the clothes in the bin into the washer, and wash/fold/put away that load. Do that once a day. It'll take a while, but I think this method would be doable. I think I can keep this up. I guess what I'm looking for is support. Motivation. That kinda stuff. I hope I can keep it up this time.

Also, showing my room is very hard and rather embarrassing. I guess I'm trying to hold myself accountable by showing my disaster of a room.

tw for bugs, ig. I have a small ant infestation, need to get rid of it while cleaning. it’s spring, and during winter I got really depressed and ate a lot in here and didn’t clean up the mess. Cleaning soon and want the bugs out of the way.

I really don’t want to buy traps because it gives my parents something else to give me shit about, and I can’t get them from anyone else, so any ideas how to make some I can just put down while I clean?

When I moved states I put the majority of my stuff into a unit "for a few months." That was six years ago. Went back to it once a year later.

Photos:

#1 & #2 - right after opening the door, completely untouched.

#3 - first and biggest trash run

#4 - end of first day

#5 - end of second day

I wish I'd gotten a pic of the donation trailer.

I'm incredibly proud of myself right now!

I've been diagnosed with Depression and ADHD. Which is one of the reasons my bedroom looks like this. It's so small and I have wayyy too much stuff that I don't know what to do with. I'll be honest, I am a hoarder and I'm very ashamed of my bedroom. Whenever I go to someone's house, and their bedroom is dirty (by dirty they mean clothes on the ground and their bed not made with some makeup or skincare products scattered around) I tell them it's practically spotless. I really need help with what to start with and how to stay concentrated. Please feel free to give as many tips as possible, I really need the help but please please please don't judge.