Does Cleaning Rule Your Life?

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Does Cleaning Rule Your Life?
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• Keeping a clean home can be hard work, but
  keeping a clean home all the time, can be even
  harder.
• Most of us enjoy living in a clean and tidy
  environment, and many of us will dedicate at
  least an hour or two a week to dusting,
  hoovering, polishing and scrubbing our homes to
  keep them in a liveable condition. But there are
  those who take household cleaning to another
  level, and will obsessively clean their homes
  until their gruelling schedule begins to overtake
  their lives.

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• When cleaning becomes an obsession
• For those who obsessively clean their homes,
  their gruelling schedule can quickly begin to
  take its toll, and their lives can be negatively
  affected by this in many ways. From not having
  the time to socialise due to the restraints of a
  rigorous cleaning routine, to thinking about
  cleaning when they need to be focusing on other
  things, such as their family or their job.
• As with all aspects of our lives, there is a
  clear need for balance, and when that balance
  isnt there, action must be taken but what
  action, exactly?

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• What you can do to help curb your cleaning
  obsession
• Obsessive cleaning is a form of OCD or obsessive
  compulsive disorder, and they feed off stress and
  anxiety. The obsessive person will carry out an
  activity compulsively, often because they imagine
  that it will reflect positively in their lives,
  and that if they dont do it obsessively,
  something terrible may happen as a result.
• Obsessive compulsions may also lead the person to
  believe that in carrying out the task so
  fervently, their exhaustion may lead to stress
  levels being lowered and anxiety being relieved.
  However, there are many more simple and effective
  ways of reducing stress levels.

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• Learning to relax more before you begin cleaning,
  is the first step on the road to being rid of
  your obsession. Dont expect to be able to stop
  cleaning altogether and nor should you want to
  but instead, learn how to feel relaxed before
  you take on your chores. If you sit in a quiet
  place and perhaps listen to some soothing music
  before you begin your day, youll find that your
  mind feels rested already, without needing to
  feel relaxed by fervently cleaning.
• Then slowly begin to reduce the amount of
  cleaning that you do, and the time that you
  dedicate to it. Breaking up your cleaning routine
  will almost instantly see you noticing that it
  doesnt matter if you start cleaning half an hour
  later than usual, or even if you forget to clean
  something, because nothing

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• untoward will happen and you probably wont even
  feel stressed. Its very important to reduce your
  cleaning schedule slowly, though, otherwise it
  could have the opposite effect.
• It also pays to tackle any other issues in your
  life that may be causing you to feel stressed or
  anxious, otherwise reducing the cleaning routine
  alone, may not be enough to help you.
• Some OCDs are linked to unrealistic fears, such
  as contamination. Seeking help from a
  professional can help you to overcome any
  irrational fears that you might have, and
  therefore help you to become less obsessive with
  your cleaning routine.

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• No one is suggesting that you ditch your cleaning
  routine altogether, but reducing it will allow
  you much more time to do the things you enjoy and
  to experience a quality of life that you may not
  have had for a very long time.
• If no amount of therapy or self-help can see you
  reducing the time you dedicate to cleaning, why
  not give up trying and simply employ a
  professional house cleaning company who will do
  all the hard work for you and ensure that your
  home is continually spick and span!

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