wob182 wrote:
its nice to hear i'm not alone but how do you organise mess? For example my room is covered in clothes all different types random books, shoes i can find stuff but it frustrating that i cant appear normal, my parents are so hurtful about it always putting me down because I'm messy.
Another thing is I cant organise my thoughts, i cant i can barely organise what i should be doing. I'm better with appointments when its a fixed time of the day and cannot be procrastinated until its never done.
I try to not have too many items of clothing...actually I'm a pile maker. I make big mountains of dirty clothes.....even mountains of clean clothes. I have a king sized bed and I sleep alone, often adjacent to a mountain of clean laundry. I make piles on backs of chairs...I make piles of books, piles of magazines, piles of bills. I know where everything is. If I get to the point where the piles are falling over, and I have to climb over stuff, clothes not in drawers or closets just in piles it's time to clean my room (this happens most often during hypomania, and never during depressions or actual mania). I usually will spend a day throwing stuff away, getting rid of old clothes, sorting mail. I don't live with my parents anymore, and I don't remember it being an issue when I was younger, because my dad was the same way.....
Hmmm....about organizing your thoughts.....do you have time to write one down before another pops up? Can you isolate one thought at a time, or do you have multiple trains of thought going at once?
When my brain is going slow enough (never during mania, not of this applies to mania), just my normal pinball machine of a brain.....I can manage to write things down....I will cover my desk, my fridge, my counter tops and my lab bench with post-its....I remove them after I've done the task that the post it was reminding me to do. It drives my roommate and coworkers nuts, but it's better that I do that then not attend to anything, because then nothing whatsoever would get done.
This can be difficult because it's not uncommon for me to have several trains of thought going at once....like constant chatter.....pictures flashing all over...I have to force it to make sense....pay attention to one train and ignore the other three, four or five.....eventually they just sound like a TV with no volume or a radio that was left on in another room.......
I will say the post-it's really do help. Especially at work. It's the only way I can keep track of what I'm supposed to be doing...I can't leave it up to my brain to do that....it's just going too fast.....
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07 May 2008, 4:49 pm
