Poll Do You Struggle With Organizing?

[Deleted member 27340]

I just realized the "yes" and "no"'s shoul've been switched around in the poll. Ooops.

So being messy can be part of PTSD, then..

 

[Alien Goodness]

For me I feel that PTSD makes me neater, cleaner & more organised than normal. I sometimes wish I could be more messy but I start feeling edgy. When I'm on top of everything and everything is in its right place, I feel more comfortable.

 

[Emsy.77]

So do I @Alien Goodness exactly same as you. I can't rest until everything is where it should be..........slight OCD I think I have too!!!

 

[Ti Vu]

I put that everything's kinda messy but I sorta know where to find things. There's a lot of things, random stuff and knick-knacks around my family's home and my own desk. We don't really throw things away too often. Everything either has another use or has some sentimental value attached to it. They all have a "spot" though, so there's a lot going on and it gets... hectic:p

Although I feel this need to keep everything clean, situated in a specific place, and in order. Anything else would just be bad form:p I actually really enjoy cleaning/vacuuming.

 

[Deleted member 12723]

I am a frustrated perfectionist therefore, I have organized stacks of things around. I usually know where everything is.

I used to be super clean, but after caregiving twenty four seven for my husband with severe dementia, I just do not manage to dust or vacumn and willingly pay someone else to do it for me. My room is neat and organized now.

I clean my bathroom when it starts to get really bad but I do a good job. I find since I have recovered from my husbands death a year ago, that I am very good at a neat appearance of things. Everything is picked up. I make my bed every morning, and what a waste that is since I go to sleep every night and mess it up.

I grew up since nine years old being the family slave and always felt like a failure because I did not know how to cook and to clean. That is where I learned to pick things up and make them look neat.

I hate and loathe housework.

 

[Changing4Best]

I've always been disorganized and I've had PTSD symptoms since the longest I can remember, as well as early life traumas. I suspect my sister is the victim of the same perp too, our father's father) as she is even more disorganized than I.

 

[Go Hungry]

I'm a lot more organized now than I used to be. I think a lot of it has to do with having such a small apt and not being able to have much of a mess without tripping over it constantly. Things just have to be in their space out of necessity. But I certainly wasn't like that before. Back when I lived in a big house it was total chaos. So I guess that's one good thing about moving out on your own.

 

[Barberian]

Orga...zing... Orangutan'ing.... Origami sizing... what?

I have a low tolerance to trying to get stuff organized. I just short circuit between the ears. On average I have 5-10 min of functionality before the short circuit effect shuts me down. It's very unpleasant mentally so I don't do it often. I can have something in my hand and have no idea what to do with it, even how or where I should set it down so I'm not standing there with it forever.

 

[Chi Square Latte]

I know I'm nearly 2 years late but I swing between the two. I found this thread whilst looking for a thread about finding ways to get organised. Anyway, I have always been quite organised. When I'm having a bit of a rough time things slip. I find it really hard to get on top of everything. Then I get fed up and become organised again.

I would like to find/develop a system that lets me either keep organised while I go through a rough patch, or is easy to slip back into once I am ready to slip back into it again. Any ideas? Does anyone else swing between the two?

 

[Heather]

When I'm really having a hard time things are in disarray... dishes in sink, laundry not done, floor needs sweeping.

But when I'm able to pull it together house is pretty tidy am glad to report.

Dishes are in sink now, just 'cause I'm too lazy to do them.

 

[Heather]

dishes in sink, laundry not done, floor needs sweeping.

Did the dishes, swept the floor and did all laundry. Hooray for me.:)

 

[Deleted member 28403]

My environment is a very complicated ecosystem :P Similar to the basement in The IT Crowd... But if someone does anything to unmess it, prepare to see me wandering around and trying to figure out where did everything go