[Cookies25]

I've slowly started to clean my room, and like previous times I seem to not be able to follow-through with the whole process. One day-about a week ago, I did a good amount of cleaning my surfaces and organizing some parts of my room, and my clothes drawers, desk, etc. I still have a pretty large amount of things left.

Most of the time I will look at the messy areas, or think about what I need to do as I look and then feel unmotivated, or sad even at times. This has always made me a big believer that ADD can go hand-in-hand with my Depression and Anxiety. I realize if I had a lot less clutter I'd be able to get comfy at my desk and get things done I've been wanting to accomplish if I had more tidy space.

I usually become more anxious than sad, and then when I feel better overall I'm less motivated and decide to put it off or carry on with something I'd rather do. So I can get distracted by such things for hours and then regret it on days my mind feels cluttered when I actually do try to get other tasks done I've been sort of putting off for months.

Besides doing a little bit each day, listening to music during cleaning, etc, any personal tips?

[BlondeFairy]

I wish i had advice. Im in the same boat as you. Im looking for answers too! At least we arent alone!!

[-jimi-]

The only advice I can give is to retrain your mind to be fine with semi messy. With me, I knew what I wanted the end result to be, I can organize. But for some reason I can't get there. So rather than cleaning a little I felt there was no point in cleaning and organizing. But with practice I have learned to accept that sloppily cleaned is much better than doing nothing. I think many with ADD are secret perfectionists.

[Miswimmy1]

I agree with -jimi- that I know that many of the people I know who have ADD are perfectionistic, at least in some aspects. Unfortunately, I am not one of those people :P I don't have any real advice other than maybe wait until you get in the mood? I got through spurts where I get super sick of all the clutter and super motivated to clean. I try to make the most of that enthusiasm and try to quickly clean up before I lose interest halfway through. Sometimes I don't finish but at least I make some progress!

[Cookies25]

Thanks for the replies. I think I become a perfectionist only sometimes in the sense that (rarely) my room looks spotless in my eyes and then within a few days the clutter will begin to accumulate when one doesn't naturally but things back. So I definitely like a bit of clutter. It's easy to ignore when there's too much clutter unless I'm trying to be productive in other areas of life. Then the cycle of putting things off thus continues.