Engage in Spring Cleaning for Your Mental Health

• Engage in Spring Cleaning for Your Mental Health
• From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs
• Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans
• Stop Avoiding Life Because of Anxiety, Fear, or Phobias
• Self-Confidence Quote

Living in a cluttered, disorganized, or dirty space can be hard on your mental health. It can feel chaotic and make it hard to move and think. Clutter often aggravates symptoms of anxiety, ADHD, and obsessive-compulsive disorder, and more. With its warmer temperatures and ability to open windows and move around indoors and outside, spring is a great season to give your living space a fresh start.

That said, the idea of spring cleaning can be overwhelming. Depression zaps motivation and exhausts both mind and body, for example. Anxiety and ADHD can make it difficult to create and follow logical plans. Use these tips to freshen both your home and your mental health this season:

• Don’t try to do everything at once. Work in chunks. Identify one room (or one area in a room) and work on only that one project.
• Start with what is bothering you the most or begin with what feels easy. If tackling that big mess in the living room would make you feel better, do that. If picking one drawer in the kitchen will encourage you to do another task tomorrow, start there.
• Reward yourself. When you complete a task, take a break and enjoy something relaxing or fun.

Spring cleaning not only makes daily living easier, the very act of doing it can be motivating and energizing.

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Today's Question: What are your tips for cleaning and organizing when mental health challenges make it hard? We invite you to participate by sharing your thoughts, experiences, and knowledge on the HealthyPlace Facebook page.

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From the HealthyPlace Mental Health Blogs

On all our blogs, your comments and observations are welcomed.

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• Depression that Appears to be Anger or Rage -- How to Handle It/a>
• Barriers to Inclusive LGBTQIA+ Mental Health Care
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Feel free to share your thoughts and comments at the bottom of any blog post. And visit the mental health blogs homepage for the latest posts.

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Most Popular HealthyPlace Articles Shared by Facebook Fans

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“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”

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Deborah

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