First off I want to say thanks to everyone who is following and commenting. I will try to respond to all comments. I was able to get rid of the trash, 7 kitchen garbage bags of trash and 2 paper grocery bags or recyclables where taken to the dump/recycled. Unfortunately that is all the cleaning that got done yesterday. I received some bad news over an unrelated issue and pretty much slept the whole day because I was so upset. Today I am going to attempt to fix the issue from yesterday and I hope everything goes well. There’s still a lot of trash left that isn’t in bags so I think my next step will just be trying to bag the remaining trash.

My parents suggest I seek therapy as I have depression and some other problems and have had them for around 10 years. I’m thinking I may bring up the hoarding with my therapist. I’m worried I may fall back into my old ways if I don’t fix what causes the hoarding in the first place. I did have a small victory the other day. I had an urge to go shopping at a local store to see if there was anything I wanted for my place. But I convinced myself to wait until I had cleaned out more before bringing anything else in.

I’ve decided to post the pictures later in the day when I get everything I need to do out of the way.