Too Ashamed to Clean? A Psychologist's 25-Min Reset

So, I've been avoiding cleaning my office for weeks now, but what just recently happened is I was having some coffee and there was no space on my desk, so I spilled it, created a big mess, and I need to do something about this. I've been avoiding it too long, but now that you're here, I think we're

going to be able to do this together. So, if you have something to clean yourself, we're going to do this for about 25 minutes and I welcome you to join me. I'll show you exactly how I do this, how I help my patients do this, and how I'm going to do this myself. And if you don't want to clean anything up,

that's cool, too. Why don't we hang out together because you being here is going to help me make all of this possible.

All right, let's get into it. So, one of the things that I gosh, I can't even Where is the stuff I need to clean this space? Um One of the things that I do is I treat a lot of obsessive-compulsive disorder. And one of the types of OCD that uh a lot of people may not really understand that much is hoarding.

What happens with hoarding is people have a very hard time Oh my gosh, what did I step on? Oh no. I stepped on my playbook. I stepped I stepped on my I stepped on my Every Brilliant Thing playbill. Not playbook, playbill. This is with Daniel Radcliffe show and Radcliffe, not Radcliff, and I just

Ah, the back came off. No. Um this is the problem with having a mess. So, with OCD, one of the things that happens Gosh, I don't even have any tape. I can't find my tape.

Huh. One of the things that happens is people have a very hard time making decisions. And the very first thing we do, not the very first thing we do, because the very first thing we do is help people understand what OCD is and how it works.

But the main gist of OCD treatment or hoarding treatment is we help make people we help people to deal with the anxiety of making decisions about what to do with all their stuff.

One of the things with hoarding is uh you have a really hard time feeling like if if something isn't there, that like memory, that idea of it might be gone. So, um and then things pile up. So, I like to make a few different uh folders, bins, things like that. I'll show you what I mean in just a moment as

I write this out.

I'm curious, are you doing something yourself? Are you Are you Do you have a spot to clean up or sort or organize?

Maybe you have a messy office like me or maybe you just have a big pile of mail, whatever it is. Uh let me know what you are doing here.