@virtuous Hi Dori. I have seen your occasional posts about wanting to disconnect from the MAC group. You may want to reconsider. Seeing our posts might make you grateful for what you have verses what we have. At least you can breathe and don't have bacterias that are constantly trying to kill you. Believe me, I am not making light of what you are dealing with. I have two immediate members of my family that have/had bi-polar disorder and a nephew with schizophrenia. I KNOW how dibilitating depression is. I have MAC and have ZERO energy like someone would with fibromyalgia or really bad lupus. I have read your posts about your housework getting away from you. I totally get that. My downstairs stays pretty tidy, but my bedroom and other rooms upstairs are the pits. I only have four hours out of a day to be a human being. I cannot get going until after 12 noon. I have two hours of breathing treatments in the a.m. and then two more hours in the p.m. I hit a brick wall by 3:30 in the afternoon and usually nap until 5 or 6. Get through dinner, walk my dog, do my two hours of treatments, shower, and get into bed.
For some fortunate reason, I am never depressed. My clutter gets on my nerves, but I keep chanting my motto: 'A little bit here, and a little bit there' gets the job done eventually. I have gotten rid of a bunch of stuff that was bogging me down, and reorganizing things to make my life easier. I can tell you this much; a cluttered environment will give you a cluttered mind. Just get rid of it!