The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #98709   Message #1959328
Posted By: wysiwyg
06-Feb-07 - 02:18 PM
Thread Name: BS: Downshifting
Subject: RE: BS: Downshifting
I hope you discover what will work for you, and DO IT. I sure didn't mean to suggest that anyone here, in particular, suffers from that disorder, but it is one end of a wide spectrum and I know where my own inattention to order could lead me.

I know my reformed status is in jeopardy, for example, when the clean clothes don't make it up onto the shelf but a whole laundry cycle goes by with me hastily pulling clean, folded clothes from the hamper and throwing them, once dirty, on the floor because the hamper is still full of clean, folded clothes I could have put on the empty, well-organized shelves 12 inches away. (In the first-floor bathroom, where I dress and get ready for bed.)

When that gets out of hand, and the small bathroom floor feels crowded, I know I've been too busy to take proper care of myself in that respect and probably several others linked to care of person. The same untended clothing habit, in a bedroom, could go on many days longer before it bothered me. Such is my early-warning system I use to trick myself into getting back on track.

~Susan