Interior Designer Rooms: Good for Your Health
Have you ever been gripped by the desire to climb to the top of the nearest tallest building and scream at the top of your lungs “I TOLD YOU SO”! If your answer is yes, then you will understand my emotions on January 1, 2008 when I held in my hands the New York Times and read the words “Excessive clutter and disorganization are often symptoms of a bigger health problem.”
In an article titled A Clutter To Deep for Bins and Shelves, Tara Parker-Pope explores the realities related to the mess (extreme) which an estimated 1.5 million or more Americans live in daily.
Please understand that Ms. Parker-Pope and I are not speaking of the disaster area otherwise known as your teenager’s bedroom (which if you’re really lucky will either vanish or relocate when said teenager shuffles off to college), but rather of the type of clutter which can be defined as compulsive hording which takes over one’s living, dining and sleeping spaces in a way that harms an individual’s way of life.
Do yourself a favor and read the article. I found it fascinating to learn that the thing which I find so nurturing and reassuring (“a place for everything and everything in its place”) and which I readily encourage people towards at every turn might be beyond the reach of some, save for the help of psychiatric as well as design professionals.
Maybe my grandmother’s dictum that “a tidy room is the sign of a healthy mind” wasn’t so extreme after all.
Now clean up your room!
