I Need Advice

My house is driving me mad. I'm on maternity at the moment and have nothing to do all day but clean it, but somehow it never feels clean. I've donated maybe 70% of my unnecessary possessions too.

Yesterday, for example, I repainted my kitchen white and scrubbed the floors, today I deep cleaned the oven and bath. Still feels filthy to me, all I can smell in the kitchen now is drains?! Our drains are fine so I have no idea why I'm smelling it. As we rent from a family member, we can't do much to upgrade it and it is a very old, leaky, crumbly house.

What do people do to make their house feel really clean? Any tricks/tips because I feel like I'm going insane 😂

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CountScrofula · 41-45, M

If the focus on cleaning is getting more and more intense and not being corrected by cleaning, you may have perinatal OCD which turns out is actually a thing. May not be a bad idea to bring it up with your doctor.

Peppa · 31-35, F

@CountScrofula kind of diminishes it's significance when you have people walking around talking about "oh I'm a bit ocd!" 😒

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@Peppa Yeah no kidding. People treat it like an affectation rather than a serious condition that needs treatment.

Starsandfire · 31-35, F

@CountScrofula I had no idea such a thing existed. The focus is usually on depression during and after pregnancy and I've also heard of psychosis occuring, but never OCD. Thank you, I will mention it to the midwife :)

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@Starsandfire I didn't either until you described what was going on and I found some results on it. Hopefully something that you can easily treat!

Starsandfire · 31-35, F

@CountScrofula I hope so too. Thanks again! :)