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Anyone who has kids or works from home knows this best: Wherever you look—the living room, the bathroom, the home office—you notice the things you (or someone else) needs to tidy, organize, and toss.
Am I just “typically Swiss” and like to have everything in its place – or is this becoming pathological, some people may ask themselves? Especially when you can’t even get a moment’s rest at home because there’s an endless to-do list to work on.
People you live with often point out, more or less politely, that this pedantry is no longer completely normal. What can you do about this?
There is nothing left but to leave the apartment!
“Perhaps you’re trying to leave the apartment or house you’re living in instead of cleaning up first,” says Michael Rufer, MD, chief physician of the Zugersee Clinic’s Inpatient Psychiatry and Psychotherapy Center. This way, you can consciously change your response to this pressure of order.
Rufer is a board member of the Swiss Association for Obsessive Compulsive Disorders and has been dealing with compulsions and obsessive thoughts for 25 years.
It also treats people suffering from the compulsion to keep order. Some require the magazines to lie in exact geometric alignment on the coffee table, and if they don’t, those affected become extremely uncomfortable.
Over time, they become lonely because no one can live with their system of order anymore. This sometimes takes so much time and energy that at some point you can no longer work or perform other activities that don’t require cleaning.
Rufer says that all patients who come to him with such problems first try to change their behavior. “At some point you had to admit to yourself: I can’t do this.” Anyone who can manage to leave their apartment untidy for a few days and not fall into a crisis is able to help themselves in most situations and is therefore not dependent on professional support.
According to Rufer, it is important not only to make a general decision, but also to work systematically to get rid of things that are not good for you. This includes asking yourself what might be behind this extreme love of order. “This is something that often concerns those affected,” Rufer says.
For example, he is afraid that he may lose control in life. As a result, something needs to be done to reduce these unpleasant feelings in his eyes; cleaning is the obvious choice. Ruf says everyone has strange thoughts that have nothing to do with who they are as a person. “If you keep this in mind and don’t overvalue your emotions, your risk of becoming compulsive decreases.”
Source : Blick
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