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It's the first weekend since a Latuda increase yanked me out me out of 3 months of crippling depression. Now I'm sitting here drinking my coffee thinking, "d*** my house looks disgusting." Sigh...so overwhelmed right now.
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I'm sitting here drinking water (from Starbucks
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Yeah, I'm just hanging out on the forum putting off starting on this. Granted, most of this is my son's crazy mess. Kid can trash a house in 2 seconds flat. It's amazing.
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I feel like that all the time lol I'm not much of a cleaner. My son also causes a huge mess. He's six so I have him pick up his stuff at least but the dishes, vacuuming, laundry, etc fall to me. Right now I'm physically sick (fever, sore throat, etc) and I really want to vacuum but I just don't have the energy. Much like when I'm depressed.
When I was young my mom never ever cleaned so most of it fell to me. I was only ten so obviously I didn't keep on top of it. The living room used to get disgusting. So what I used to do is use scotch tape to create squares. Then I would clean one square at a time to avoid becoming overwhelmed. I do the same thing as an adult, minus the tape. I take it one room at a time and reward myself with frequent breaks. Christina on here oftten says to set a timer for fifteen minutes and clean for that amount of time and then take a break. I do that too. I am glad you're feeling somewhat better! You'll be able to get your house in order soon. Try not to stress too much about it.
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Yeah they can! Thank goodness my daughter cleans. We are going grocery shopping after this. We have little food. Just this and that kind of food, nothing to make a real meal. Pasta but nothing to put on it; less than half a loaf of bread, etc. My eldest son came over to do a deep clean on the apartment (where he doesn't even live) when we were getting inspected quite a while ago now. So nice of him! So they can go the other way, too.
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Ugh I gotta do that too! I think maybe I'll clean awhile and then go to the pool. Maybe pizza for dinner. Save shopping for tomorrow. It's a gorgeous day here.
On a side note, I feel kind of amped. Hoping I'm not getting hypo. But then again, who cares? I don't have credit cards anymore. Or maybe this is what normal feels like? I dunno... |
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Really need to clean my house as well. Left it looking like a tornado hit it when I left. I struggle with cleaning the house with my depression. Going to fully enjoy this week, not think about it and tackle it when I get back.
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I feel like I was amped/hypo when I went to the eye doctor. I spent ~$170 on my exam, ~$400 on my contacts and ~$250 on my glasses. (Guesstimates.) So then I felt poor. But I am loving how well I can see! Then I think "Well this script will expire in a year probably..." then I start to feel bad, but then I think how much better I can see, so I start to feel good... etc.
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#9
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I can relate.
We have a cleaner come once a month to deeply clean the common living areas and my mother's bed and bath. It gets pricey, so we clean the other areas. I get behind when depressed, which has been a long time now. I also try to break tasks down into 30 minute increments. I have company coming to stay in a month and need to deep clean the guest area which has been a temp. storage area all winter. I need to sort and clean! Overwhelmed is the word. ![]() WC |
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![]() I am glad the Latuda is helping you. Latuda helped me very much for the first two months or so. Then something happened and I had to add stimulants. I cannot say Latuda is doing nothing; it's just no longer enough. I hope Latuda continues to help you! ![]() WC |
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I've got most of my living/dining room area done and kitchen isn't too bad. Running out of steam now.
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Wish I could get a cleaner too. I have to do short spurts because my back hurts if I try to do more. It feels good to accomplish something, even doing the dishes.
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Yeah I relate to the cleaning. My apt was bad after the long winter depression. I can only do a little at a time bc of my back as well. Wish I could afford an ongoing cleaning person from a reputable company, but I just can't.
Yeah it gets overwhelming. I feel ya. |
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GREAT that you cleaned today! That's a huge accomplishment. I hope Latuda is "the" med for you.
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