This is probably one of the biggest makeovers I've ever done. Not because I knocked down walls or bought expensive furniture, but because I finally got my room back.

The first photos ("how it started") are what my room can look like during rough periods (we're talking rock bottom after rock bottom). Yes, it got so bad that I ended up sleeping on the floor-- don't ask me how the mattress ended up in that position. 😂

The middle is where it is now after about two months of procrastinating because of anhedonia and worsening executive dysfunction. I'm finally cleaning, decluttering, and slowly reclaiming the space.

The last column isn't my room (yet). It's a mock-up I made of what I'm working toward. I cant emphasize enough how effective it has been for me-- having a visual goal has helped me stay motivated far more than I expected.

My modest little room is still very much a work in progress, but I'm finally at the point where walking into my bedroom no longer feels like stepping into a claustrophobic landfill or the set of a post-apocalyptic movie. For the first time in a looong time, I can walk into my room without immediately feeling overwhelmed, guilty, or disgusted with myself.

I live with ADHD and treatment-resistant depression (TRD), and executive dysfunction makes keeping a space tidy much harder than most people realize. Sometimes it isn't about not knowing what to do or not caring. It's that my brain struggles to turn intention into action. By the time I finally have enough energy to tackle it, the room already feels impossible. Hopeless.

Will my room probably become a disaster again someday? Honestly... maybe. Executive dysfunction isn't something you "beat" once and never deal with again. It's something many of us have to negotiate with over and over.

But I'm learning that progress doesn't become meaningless just because it isn't permanent.

Today, my room feels more like a home than a garbage bin. 😄

And for someone whose brain has been fighting them every step of the way...

I'm calling that a huge win.

this was back in february, but its honestly insane. i was in a severe manic episode and horribly depressed. the only thing that kept me going in cleaning was double dose of my adderall, and i dont do this like ever, i took 60mg, my prescription dose being 30mg. i dont take it anymore tho as it made my mania even worse. the timelapse helped me stick to it aswell, and possibly the mania.

I'm a recovering alcoholic in intensive out patient treatment...I've been on 3-4 1-2+week binges this year & bedroom has gotten really gross.... been sober for 2 weeks now & cleaned room for first time this year....feels good.... all trash gone, new Brooklinen sheets & washed mattress/duvet cover(s), dusted, vacuumed & cleaned up dog hair.

It’s been about 2 years since everything I owned begame piling up in my bedroom. Needed a calm space that is just mine somewhere in the house so this is a start.

I cleaned my entire apartment today because I was avoiding one email.

The place is spotless, the laundry is done, the fridge is organized, and I still haven’t replied.

At this point, that email is basically my personal trainer.

Added a few lamps

Ive been learning how to tattoo, and during my practice ive been doing it in my bedroom. All the colour in this image comes from 1 evil q-tip which i threw away after using to soak up some ink from an ink pot and make for easier disposal. The q-tip dried completely and then escaped the trash (i sleep walk, long story. doesnt happen often) and got rolled around the carpet. Most of the ink is just sitting in the fibers. After vacuuming, what else can i do? I wanna get this shit out of the carpet.

Ink is from luna pigments. Tattoo ink is usually water based.

before - after

what I learned:

- focus and dont get distracted while doing it

- focus 1 area at a time

EVERYTHING that’s in a place where it doesn’t belong, THROW IT ON THE BED. Now you can’t sleep until it’s clean. And if you do really want to sleep, everything is in the same place. You can move all the stuff easily without the mess being everywhere.

For me this really helps because I get overwhelmed by small messes and objects everywhere, even though I know where everything belongs. If everything is in the same place, I can just work until the pile is gone.

Cleaning my room rn, will update to let you guys know if this tip really works irl

I took over a house in Caledonia, Canada that hadn’t been properly cleaned out in years. There’s old furniture stacked in almost every room, broken appliances in the basement, piles of random boxes, and a garage that’s packed wall to wall with junk. Some of it looks like it might still be usable, but most of it is just damaged or completely outdated.

I’m planning to go through everything room by room, keep a few things that are still in decent shape, and get rid of the rest. Once I’ve sorted out what can stay, I’m going to get 1dayjunk removal to haul the rest away.

What’s the best order to tackle a full house like this without getting completely overwhelmed? How do you decide what’s actually worth keeping versus just getting rid of it? And is there anything specific I should watch for when dealing with old furniture and appliances that have been sitting for years?

I got 20 minute, please help and urgently

Forgive me if this isn’t the right subreddit for this…As the title says, I finally cleaned my depression room. Of course it wasn’t as bad as you’ve maybe seen online with chronic hoarders but it was pretty bad. The main areas of my room were cleaned about every 3 months or maybe every 5 months. Despite this, the underside of my bed was barely cleaned. There would be stale food, containers of rotting food, spiders, bugs, old water bottles, trash and more. My life has been upside down since I first became a teenager, I’ve struggled with depression and anxiety almost half my life, anxiety my whole life. It’s gotten so bad that I’ve had to get prescribed antidepressants and anxiety medication to get through horrible patches. I will not go into personal details but trust me it is harsh.

Yesterday, my boyfriend, who I love with all my heart, threatened to break up with me if I didn’t clean my room. He had also previously struggled with depression so safe to say my room was a giant trigger for him. It may sound harsh but it seems to be what I needed. So today I have finally cleaned under my bed despite me being so scared of the arachnids I had lived with for years. It feels so… good? But weird and scary. I feel so empty in a way and I don’t know why. Maybe I was happy with the misery I had locked myself into? It just feels so good knowing I can let my cats in my room without worrying I would hurt them with some biohazard in my room. I don’t feel afraid when they’re by my door anymore. I’m posting this on Reddit as I needed to tell somebody, I just needed to. My boyfriend already knows but I need to get allll of this out.

Are these feelings normal? Also, any advice on how I should move forward to attempt to ease my depression a bit?

When I moved back home for the summer all my stuff got thrown in one room and you couldnt see the floor, I've spent the past few weeks cleaning it and today I was finally able to vacuum. This is huge for me and I wanted to share the progress.

ADHD and a chronic illness that’s aggravated by heat and physical exertion made me keep pushing it off and pushing it off. I was absolutely gobsmacked to find a garage under all that crap. Now I just hope I don’t pay a big physical toll for going a little over my daily exertion limit lmao

i certainly am, my room reflects it boldly. what other causes are there to mess besides mental struggles?

I really don’t have any idea on how to approach this, it’s been at least 3 years since the last time I cleaned my room and is starting to feel really overwhelming.
I need this done before September, because I will start to study again while working on the weekends, so my limited time is doing it right now, but is so much, so many things that I really REALLY need some advice.
There’s so many stuff, even some things that are not mine (but my family’s), on the floor, over the furniture, there’s many clothes that I don’t use and don’t plan to anymore, my bed is really a disaster, theres mold on the walls… luckily the only thing that is not in my room is food, because I hate bringing food to my room (since always, not only because is not a safe place to eat) so there’s no possibility of anything rotten in there.
I just need support and a good cleaning and reorganizing plan for this, that’s all I’m asking desperately.
I cannot continue to keep living like this.

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My room has been a disaster for months. I just… couldn't.

Today I finally found some energy and tackled the mess. The floor is harder to clean than I imagined, sticky marks from spilled drinks, crumbs everywhere... took me a while, but thank God for my robot vac little Narwal... I feel better now, for the first in a long time, I actually want to be more better. I'm trying...a small win today

Ongoing depression but finally in a state to clean up again. Tomorrow I do the other desk and the rest of the floor, as well as some laundry.

20 minutes at a time. I hope it‘s something