Have you guys... | ADHD Information
...as a coping mechanism, tried to reduce the chaos in your mind by simpifying and organizing your living enviroment, putting every thing in its place?
Yes, I have lost count of how many hours I spend each week trying to tidy up, only to revert rapidly back to the same mess within daysYes and it didn't work. My place was messy as soon as I started to focus on something else.I try every week to get organized, but somehow I'm a mess by the end of the week! I orginize Sun. and I do pretty good until I feel overwelmed, which is every week, usually by wed. or thurs.. I should except it by now, but it always bothers me
.Yes, we are people who like to "pile," piles of books, magazines, paper work, newspapers, clothes...Yeah, it last about 2 or 3 days and i'm back to making piles. I, too, have given up! My studio at home was a real mess, stuff piled everyone. So I took an afternoon and got it all nice and tidy and shiny. About 3 days later I took a look and the room was totally trashed again! Can't help it. It's just in our genes. 
I just throw everything away that I dont use within a 3 month span. Keeps me organised.
I never get through the process. I get started, get distracted, and don't get back to it.
You know the feeling... you pick something up that belongs in another room and before you know it your watching TV, or 'cleaning' that room, or fixing that lamp that's been broken for 6 weeks, or ......... "Why am I in this room???"
Like the rest of you, every time I make the effort to organize it only lasts a few days! I just don't have it in me to keep up with it. I am hoping meds will help but so far I haven't seen much improvement. I think I'll contact the Psychiatrist and see if we can up the dosage a bit.I am currently living with my grumpy, messy, batchelor brother (I am building a house--long story).
Between the two of us, the house will soon be mistaken for the county landfill.
~~sigh~~
my room is a sty, my computer's HD is hell to find anything, but no matter how many times i clean anything, it never stays clean, my ex-roomates used to refuse to use my computer because they could never find anything on it.
nowadays i don't even bother, its a waste of time to organise something that'll be unorganised within a weekends time(i never understood making the bed either)
i find that eventually you begin to think more clearly in that mess, out of habit you remember where you put things easier and it almost becomes easier to find something in a messy room than in an organised one, things are placed(read: thrown) more where you would expect yourself to put it.
as the saying goes: Its my mess, and i love it
My psychiatrist recommends "a place for everything & everything in its place." The everything part is beyond me. I have places for certain things - but to do that with every single thing would really be a full time job. (Boring.) I love my piles & have lots of avalanches which I don't much like.
I also plunk things down in the first available place & then later can't find them. For instance if I just got home I will plunk my purse wherever. Unless I make a mental note to myself, such as - you will need this 1st thing in the morning - I pay no attention to where I am putting stuff. At some point I will be searching for it when it becomes important again.