Bipolar Supporter – Spring Cleaning in the Fall?
Published: Mon, 11/14/11
Hi ,
How's it going today?
Are you having a good day?
I hope so.
I remember when I still lived at home...
And it was time for Spring Cleaning.
I would do everything I could to NOT be
at home!
Because being at home meant I would have to help
my mom with all kinds of extra cleaning.
Closets...
The garage...
The basement...
The rooms...
Under everywhere...
In everything...
Places I never knew existed!
And we'd find things I thought were long gone,
too!
It was amazing, the things Mom would discover
during Spring Cleaning.
I think everybody Spring Cleans.
I think it's a universal thing, if you ask me.
But I don't think it's limited to Spring.
I think many people do it during the Fall as well.
It doesn't really matter when you do it.
The point is...
If you let things build up...
You eventually have to clean them up,
however you do it.
And whenever you choose to do it.
There are people who are called hoarders.
There's even a show on TV about them now.
Have you seen it?
It's really kind of sad.
It can be a type of mental illness, if it gets
real bad.
These people don't just clutter...
They just can't throw anything away.
So they keep EVERYTHING!
And this stuff just keeps building...
And building...
And building...
Until eventually it just overwhelms the room
they have it in...
And actually even overwhelms the person
themselves!
That's when it gets really bad.
See, you can actually have too much STUFF.
And it can lead to anxiety.
In my courses/systems, I talk about some of
the other issues that can accompany bipolar
disorder and what to do about them, and anxiety
is one of them:
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Michele, who I've talked about before, who has
bipolar disorder, went through something like this
at one point.
She had a dining room table which was where she
just started accumulating things - like the mail,
different pieces of paper, newspapers, magazines,
etc. - things she meant to get to, to clean up, but
never seemed to get to.
Eventually, her piles took up the entire dining room
table.
Every time she would tell herself she was going
to clean up the mess, she would look over at the
table and become so overwhelmed, she would have
an anxiety attack!
Well, something had to be done about it.
So she talked to her therapist about it, and her
therapist told her not to try to tackle it all at once,
because that was what was overwhelming her.
She told her to take just one corner, just one
pile, and start on that.
Michele did that, and it worked! And one corner,
one pile at a time, she eventually cleaned off that
whole dining room table. And she never had that
problem again.
Are you a clutterer too?
Is your loved one?
Has it interfered with their bipolar disorder?
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Well, I have to go!
Your Friend,
Dave
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