Amy Revell

important part of the process is this diagnostic of like is this malignant or not because if it is malignant we want to do something about it and you may not feel equipped to do something about it on your own so it might be that you want to bring in professionals

It might be that you want to talk to other people and say, look, this is where I'm stuck or this is the implication it's having.

You might have a psychologist.

It's a great way to have a conversation about the impacts of the state of your home on all your other areas, on your employment, on your relationships and your finances because malignant clutter doesn't just stay about stuff.

malignant clutter might become a real impact on your finances so it might be that you start ordering things on amazon or ordering things online and they get delivered and you're overwhelmed and so you don't unpack them but you still want the high you still want that dopamine hit of doing the purchase and so what you're doing is you're then adding and you end up with more and more packages we see this all the time with clients and it just grows and grows and grows so the clutter itself is growing

but it's impacting on your finances or it's impacting on your relationship.

There's lots of arguments around things like that.

So when clutter is impacting on other areas, it's a really, really good indicator that maybe it has moved to malignancy.

And if it's impacting on your wellbeing and your mental health, it's a great way to kind of think, am I dreading this?

Is the clutter in my home actually living in my mind as well?

It's actually gone from the stuff and

And it's now a mindset or it's now stress or anxiety or overwhelm or rumination or, you know, you've got all these compulsions.

All that stuff means that your clutter has moved from innocence to, I was going to say disastrous.

Is it that severe?

Sometimes it is.

Maybe just sometimes it's really a barrier that you need to overcome and maybe sometimes it really does become disastrous because that's what malignancy does is it festers.

So if you're finding that you're kind of not sure, how do I do this diagnostic?

Some of the things you might want to think about is that spread that I talked about.

So clutter has moved from where you intended it to be and it has kind of spread into different spaces.

Maybe you're feeling just that deep sense of dread, right?