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Homes & Gardens
Homes & Gardens
Punteha van Terheyden

Keeping my house tidy gave me terrible anxiety, then my therapist told me this one, eye-opening thing that changed everything

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I grew up in an intensely messing home so as a teenager, and later as an adult with my own home, I was preoccupied with having a perfectly tidy space.

But rather than curbing the anxiety that being in a messy space brought me with a perfectly tidy home, I found I had gone too far the other way, and was unable to relax unless everything was in its space.

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