Keeping A Clean Home When Suffering From Depression

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Keeping A Clean Home When Suffering From
Depression
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• Whether you are suffering from chronic
  depression, or often feel down, there will be
  certain aspects of your life that you dont pay
  as much attention to, and they can attribute
  towards the negative way that youre feeling.
• Keeping a clean home is often not a priority for
  those suffering from mental health issues, and
  yet having a mess around can leave it hard for
  you to feel positive, and to get yourself out of
  a negative frame of mind.
• How depression can make you feel
• Depression can make you feel lethargic and
  unwilling to participate in activities that you
  may once have enjoyed, or at least tolerated, and
  when you start letting

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• your home become dirty and messy, that can be a
  key indication that something is not right, and
  that perhaps you should seek help from a mental
  health professional.
• Unfortunately, when you leave the dishes to pile
  up in the sink, or dont vacuum your floors for
  weeks on end, it can add to a destructive cycle
  that feeds on itself. Then, if your home gets
  beyond a point of no return when a quick whip
  around with a duster and the vacuum wont make a
  blind bit of difference the task ahead of you
  seems to huge and you are left feeling unable to
  tackle it. You will gradually begin to feel
  hopeless and lose all confidence in your
  abilities, and the dirt and grime will get
  progressively worse, as may your depression.

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• So, how can you keep a clean home when youre
  depressed?
• Studies have shown that a minimum of 20 minutes
  of daily physical exercise can greatly benefit
  our mental health, and this can of course,
  include cleaning. So, to try and help yourself,
  follow these simple tips for cleaning your home
  when youre depressed
• Dont feel that you must clean the entire home in
  one go. Break it up into manageable sections,
  such as the bathroom one day, the kitchen the
  next.

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• When you make a mess, try to clean it up right
  away, or at least on the same day. The same said
  can be said for accumulating clutter tidy it up
  before it gets a chance to become clutter.
• Putting things off until another day is the worst
  thing that you can do, particularly if you are
  not a fan of cleaning or are struggling with a
  mental health issue. If something needs to be
  cleaned, try to do it as soon as possible and
  youll be amazed at how much better it makes you
  feel.
• It makes sense to concentrate your daily cleaning
  efforts on those areas that are most used, and
  which become dirty the quickest.

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• Save larger tasks which may not be so urgent for
  when you have more time or are feeling most
  motivated.
• Keeping your cleaning items all together n one
  easy to find place, is helpful too, since it
  minimises the time spent searching for the right
  tools for the job.
• Should your depression ever feel like its
  getting the better of you, dont hesitate to seek
  professional help. You may also find that hiring
  a cleaner to get your home spick and span may
  help ease your worries, since we know that a
  dirty home can help to feed negative thoughts and
  energies.

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