u/FitEnthusiasm1905

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i have trouble taking care of myself/thinking im worth it

just recently my mom went into my room and understandably got extremely angered with me. it was a complete mess. Clothes were scattered about, old water bottles under my bed, you could barely see the floor, ants were eating a box of wafers under my bed… yeah that bad.

My habits consist of not doing laundry. While starting to clean I realized that I could not differentiate between clean and dirty throughout any of my clothes. I cannot even remember the last time I had done laundry. I will constantly rewear underwear, bras, socks, hoodies, shirts, pants, literally everything.

I (17F, diagnosed last summer) have ADHD and it’s obviously very hard for me to complete tasks.

The motion of doing laundry and putting it away overwhelms me. When I finally end up doing laundry I will usually dump all of it onto my couch in my room and it’ll stay there. It will never reach my drawers. I’ll live out of that pile and continuously reuse every item of clothing.

This is disgusting, I’m aware. I went to a local laundromat and did multiple loads of all of my clothing. I’m feeling better about myself. The only problem I fear is falling back into this cycle like I always do.

And is there any possible reason why this happens to me? I KNOW I’m gross, I KNOW this isn’t normal, and I KNOW I smell. I did some searching and found a sentence that really resonated with me, “It’s hard to take care of yourself when you don’t care about yourself” I think this may be why I do this. I know I’m filthy but does it matter when I think so lowly of myself? I don’t deserve to be clean and I don’t deserve to take care of myself properly.

I so badly want to feel good and be in a clean environment. I KNOW basic hygiene, I fail to execute it. My mind literally stops me from maintaining cleanliness for more than 1 month.

this is so embarrassing

Any advice or commentary would be appreciated, Thanks :)

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u/FitEnthusiasm1905 — 8 days ago

I have trouble taking care of myself/thinking I’m worth it

just recently my mom went into my room and understandably got extremely angered with me. it was a complete mess. Clothes were scattered about, old water bottles under my bed, you could barely see the floor, ants were eating a box of wafers under my bed… yeah that bad.

My habits consist of not doing laundry. While starting to clean I realized that I could not differentiate between clean and dirty throughout any of my clothes. I cannot even remember the last time I had done laundry. I will constantly rewear underwear, bras, socks, hoodies, shirts, pants, literally everything.

I (17F, diagnosed last summer) have ADHD and it’s obviously very hard for me to complete tasks.

The motion of doing laundry and putting it away overwhelms me. When I finally end up doing laundry I will usually dump all of it onto my couch in my room and it’ll stay there. It will never reach my drawers. I’ll live out of that pile and continuously reuse every item of clothing.

This is disgusting, I’m aware. I went to a local laundromat and did multiple loads of all of my clothing. I’m feeling better about myself. The only problem I fear is falling back into this cycle like I always do.

And is there any possible reason why this happens to me? I KNOW I’m gross, I KNOW this isn’t normal, and I KNOW I smell. I did some searching and found a sentence that really resonated with me, “It’s hard to take care of yourself when you don’t care about yourself” I think this may be why I do this. I know I’m filthy but does it matter when I think so lowly of myself? I don’t deserve to be clean and I don’t deserve to take care of myself properly.

I so badly want to feel good and be in a clean environment. I KNOW basic hygiene, I fail to execute it. My mind literally stops me from maintaining cleanliness for more than 1 month.

this is so embarrassing

Any advice or commentary would be appreciated, Thanks :)

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u/FitEnthusiasm1905 — 8 days ago

okay reading the title you might think “classic situation, younger girl who isnt inserting it correctly.” but really its not like that. ive had my period since i was in 4th grade and im about to be going into my senior year of highschool. ive delt with the same flow for basically forever.

im a heavy bleeder (like extremely heavy) and usually double up with both a pad and a tampon. but what ive noticed in the past few months as my flow has been getting even heavier is that when i take my tampon out, the tampon has done SUCH A GOOD JOB at absorbing ALL of my blood; its basically a Sahara desert down there. so when i go to take it out it literally hurts SO BAD. same when i go to put it back in. even when i reduce the size of the tampon from Super Plus to regular.

this usually only happens in the midst-end of my period. and the pain will usually linger for 10-15 minutes after i’ve reinserted my tampon.

is there any way to fix this or at least find an answer as to why this happens?

or maybe even someone just relating to me bruh🥲🥲🥲

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u/FitEnthusiasm1905 — 16 days ago