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I need to stop cleaning
How do i get over cleaning? I do it so much. Fucking help me.
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Maybe give some free advice about: Cleaning?
How bad of a problem is this for you? You don't have to answer me, but think about it. Do you spend hours out of your day cleaning, or thinking about cleaning? Does it feel like your excessive cleaning is out of your control?
If this is a major problem for you, and it sounds like it is, you could have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. People with OCD typically find themselves stuck thinking about the same things over and over again, and feel compelled to do certain activities over and over. They usually realize it's not logical; after all, the bathtub or sink or carpet is probably spotless by the third time they've cleaned it. But they still can't stop.
Maybe you don't have OCD, but it is something that you should look into. Being stuck doing the same thing for hours out of every day can ruin your life, and it's not something the average person understands very well. Maybe other people can pick up a new hobby or go hang out with friends to take their mind off cleaning, but with OCD that wouldn't work. It's not that you have nothing else to do. Rather, it's that you are mentally and physically unable to do something else.
This website has a lot of good information on OCD, and the specific page I'm linking to describes common obsessions and compulsions:
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Hopefully that can help you figure out whether you might have OCD or if you problem is something entirely different. If you feel like your excessive cleaning qualifies as a compulsion, you should consider talking to a therapist/psychiatrist or at least reading up on OCD. It really isn't something that you can control on your own, but knowing what's wrong is the first step to overcoming it.
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Take a deep breath and just tell yourself, its clean for right now. I'm going to do something for me. Go out with some friends or something, do something fun :D
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Maybe you could try finding something else (like a hobby) to do when you feel the urge to clean.
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