way to go yoda!! thats a great step. i am really bad at keeping my place tiny. i only have a tiny bedsit but it can get so full of stuff that i literally have no where to put my feet down! it can take me up to a month to unpack my bag after ive been home to my parents house for a weekend and there have been times where ive had the same dishes in the sink for a month or where take away packets have piled into a mountain about three feet high because i cant bring myself to bring them downstairs to the bin so i have some idea what you re talking about. at the moment the place is okish but the only reason is because i set myself two goals. the first is to tidy away my clothes from the day before whenever i dress the next morning (not that i do dress every morning but im trying to get past that too!) and the second is to wash my dishes every time i go to leave them in the sink. my sink is clear now and pathetic as it sounds it actually gives me a feeling of having more room to breathe.
when i had just about every dish in my house dirty though i started a system whereby every time i needed a dish i would wash the one i needed plus one extra one. if i needed two i would wash two extra ones and sometimes i would just wash one extra cup to lean the others against or wash all the cutlery instead of just one knife just because i felt like it. it did gradually eat away the stack of dirty dishes and i felt like i was doing something. maybe you could apply a similar system to some of the areas that bug you most? rather than going out of your way to clean or tidy do it on the way past. i love the idea of picking up ten things in every room. great plan!
the best thing about doing little things is that the motivation does actually build on itself and you have better and better days. the important thing though is to remember that you havent given in or wrecked anything or undone all the good you did if you slip up for a day or two. the next day just get back to the plan.
oh and of course the other most important thing is to keep talking to your doc and T to get to the bottom of why you feel safer in clutter. the cleaning is really just a short term benefit if the long term personal work isnt done too.
i really wish you the best. keep posting as you need to and i hope you can take a little away from this way too long post at least!
good luck to you and take care,
biiv