Latest advice about the therapeutic gain when decluttering

[Hominid711]

Thought I post this. Helped me. Just leisurely letting my mind wander but also or ideally listening to the radio or podcasts but am a bit of a newbie to the latter. If anyone is into them please send me the latest cerebral, interesting, exciting and/or fun ones. Many thanks.

forbes.com/sites/traversmar...

[PinkPanda23]

The article was interesting because it spoke to a neurotypical world. How much more distraction it must be for us! See my post today, maybe you have ideas for me.

[Gettingittogether]

Decluttering is great for my mood, for sure. Partly it's because my place can get so messy that a little cleaning up can make it much better looking. But another reason is that decluttering is so concrete. I can't get lost in my maze of negative thoughts and so on.

I set timers ... usually for 5 minutes and work on all the obvious stuff. Just get stuff off the floor and hang up clothes or put them in laundry basketball or start laundry and so on.

The problem is when I get stressed or have a lot going on in my life, I just come home and don't think about putting things in the right place.

[FloFO]

Good morning

I’ve been listening to a couple of science podcasts - The Infinite Monkey cage is good as it’s informative and funny ( the panel is usually composed of a couple of scientists and a comedian) and as it’s lead by Prof Brian Cox, it’s easy to understand. There are hundreds of them to chose from as well so you can stick to stuff you have a personal interest in in any area of science. I also quite enjoy Mind Changers which looks at the research done in psychology - I am not a psychologist but I teach it at A level and it goes through some of the more high profile and controversial studies since psychology became a thing. There’s also a radio called All in the Mind which looks into neurological conditions and mental health and their treatment, again BBC - not seen it but I should imagine quite cerebral and informative.

Sorry it’s all science based :/

All available for free on the BBC website

[Hominid711 in reply to FloFO]

Oh wow thanks!! No that's great that it's science-based!