Hey guys and welcome back to the clutter bug podcast today we're going to talk about depression and clutter

and the connection between those two. I have a Facebook group and it's called Clutter Bug Organizing Advice and let me tell you it's pretty amazing.

I have a Facebook group and it's called Clutterbug Organizing Advice and let me tell you, it's pretty amazing. There is a group of over 60,000 people who are looking for obviously organizing advice, but also posting inspirational pictures of

transformations they've made in their own home or helping others with advice and

just offering support for people who want to transform their homes and their lives,

declutter and get organized and just I guess get into a routine when it comes to cleaning all that good stuff so it's a pretty amazing group and today actually somebody

Just posted asking if we thought there was a correlation between depression and clutter.

So is it that you're sort of depressed,

so you're lacking motivation and you're lacking the ability to keep up on things and therefore you get clutter?

Or is it that you are living in a cluttered home which is making you depressed?

Or is it both? Is it the chicken or the egg kind of situation

and so I wanted to weigh in on this because the truth is I am going through a really low part right now and I'm not sure if it's real clinical depression or if it's just

a funk or maybe that's the same thing. I mean I'm definitely not a medical doctor. I have no idea and I'm not here to give

anyone advice either but I can tell you from my own experience that I'm living in a

perpetually pretty clean and tidy home and yet I feel bummed out and tired constantly

and just not feeling that zest for life that I normally do.

And I also know people who are living in really cluttered situations

that aren't feeling those things, that are feeling happy and energetic and not having any hint of depression.

So I don't think that clutter and depression are mutually exclusive or inclusive.

I think that if you are living in a home that's cluttered and you are prone to depression

or you have depression, it can aggravate the, that having clutter can aggravate the that having clutter can aggravate your depression or make it

worse or bring on an episode just like I think that the opposite is true. So when you are feeling depressed you feel a lack of

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