@adytum_official: The main study is Saxbe and Repetti (2010) from UCLA, published in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin. They had 60 dual-income couples give tours of their homes and describe them. Women who described their homes as cluttered or stressful had significantly higher cortisol throughout the entire day and higher depression symptoms. The men in the same homes were largely unaffected. The researchers suggested women may feel greater responsibility for maintaining the home which amplifies the stress response. The brain scan research is from McMains and Kastner (2011) published in the Journal of Neuroscience. They found that visual clutter competes for your attention and forces your frontal cortex to work harder even when you’re not consciously looking at the mess. Your brain is processing every piece of clutter in the background and it’s costing you cognitive resources all day long. Cleaning does reduce cortisol, which is why the 2am reorganize feels almost addictive. Your brain learned that organizing equals chemical relief so it craves it when stress peaks. Therapists now prescribe something called a nesting zone, one space you control at all times, to break the buildup cycle before it hits that breaking point. #MentalHealth #SelfCare #psychologyfacts #clutter #anxietyrelief

allisonautomatic :

He cares about my clutter but not his own 😩

Isabella Mendoza :

Put this on his fyp not mine 😭

Brandy Nichole :

I stress myself out with my own mess but it's like idk what to do with stuff and I stay in a stress loop.

GrandmaSandy :

Oh my gosh your brilliant! Thank you for this! 😘

pinkysue_loo :

Y’all I have the best solution…being single 🎉🎉🎉

ncsugirlkatie :

I know its a privilege and not doable for everyone but I highly recommend having a space that is just yours in the home. My husband and I each have our own office and its a space I can easily keep clean and decorate how I like without considering or consulting someone else. We have some shared style preferences that we use for the rest of the house but our offices are wildly different from the rest of the house or each other because we were each able to lean into a unique style we like and did not have to worry about the other person also enjoying it

Aubrey :

Resigning myself to always being anxious because I’m so sick of being the only one who cares about removing clutter.

ret :

There is no way cleaning reduces cortisol. It stresses me tf out!!

Mel :

My open concept house stressing me out all day everyday.

costumecrazy :

Curious how much singe people and their clutter is a factor to cortisol. My clutter is my own and so I know im the only person responsible but also the only person to be bothered. Does the level of ownership factor in?

wut :

SweetBunnyPaw :

But I’m so tired of constantly cleaning up😭

✨ It’s me, Elissa ✨ :

tell me about it…. 🫩

Alexis :

Sadly I'm the one with the clutter and it's so hard to battle it all after being at work all day

piscesmoonchild777 :

Post the study so I can send this to my husband

Candy :

Or is it cluttered bc I’m stressed?

snaggle2thfairy :

Crying also lowers cortisol. I’ll just do that.

SomeRandoChick :

We both have ADHD and I work from home

JeniferPhD :

I didn’t need this video to know the truth. This was nice to read though.

Blue :

it doesn't help when I'm told to just "lower my standards" either 😭

Jack :

Since Tuesday. Sir he’s been my mess since 2004.

wethairdontcare :

I feel attacked

dinodinosaurmar :

….wait this is real? I have a later sleep cycle so I tend to clean at night. And organize. It gives me incalculable joy 😅

💭⁺‧₊˚⋆🪲⋆˚₊‧⁺ :

The search LMAO

user8689591247477 :

Interesting… in my situation the roles are reversed.