I got like this once or twice in my life. Really bad like 6-7 years ago. Shit like this everywhere. I'm not a dirty person though. The funks ended and I was also heavily drinking during these periods (haven't drank in over two years). It's horrible really. Never be afraid to ask for help, especially small stuff before it snowballs into this.
I used to be a tidy person, depression crept up and said “fuck it..you live alone…who cares?” Nothing this bad, but it’s a level of mental illness and then it gets so bad you can’t even start. This woman is a rockstar for digging them out of the hole to get them to a place to start.
Yep. I've just started working on mine today. All the rotten food got pulled out of the fridge. Tomorrow night I'm off work so I'm going to put on Netflix and do as many dishes as possible. It's amazing what you can do when you find the right antidepressants.
It's quite likely an old lady who lives there. The video is from Finland, recognized it by some objects around the place like the books and stuff in the fridge.
Thanks for posting the link. As I commented on her video in the link, having been the person whose apartment was like this and gotten tremendous help from someone, it was a Godsend and is one of the reasons why I’m probably not dead (serious). I had been in major lay down and rot mode.
This arrangement is absolutely perfect. Someone gets something they need or may not be and to afford, a content creator gets content to post that we enjoy then the creator gets paid far more for the video then they ever would have for the work.
My family was hoarders growing up and that was always the worst part, me and one of my brothers would spend a month cleaning and getting it spotless just to it being back to trashed in a couple of weeks. We would mostly stick to our room that we kept clean ourselves. I will say this though my parents house has stayed clean for the past 5 years and they seemed to have broken the cycle recently, so there is hope. Although I'm still not taking that bet.
She has said before people will relapse, and she has helped a few people again for a second time. Depression sucks, without the right system of help, it's hard to break the cycle.
I saw an episode of one of the hoarding shows that revisited people months or years later (edit to clarify: it was a compilation show, so it showed several people who had appeared on the show), and they actually had maintained the cleanliness, It was the show with Niecy Nash. I was really happy for the people.
The Youtube channel shows at least one follow-up (not this person but similar) and the place is still tidy and clean and organised. While you might be right about most of them relapsing, sometimes - just sometimes - a start will help. Depends on the issue I guess.
Exactly what I was thinking. This person was clearly not mentally stable and cleaning their house, while kind and helpful, is only a bandaid. It doesn’t address what got them to this place.
True but I have to think periodic cleaning such as this is better than the health hazard of not doing anything at all. Maybe the person can beathe now, can use their sink, maybe the roach life cycle got disrupted. The goals are probably different than what you or me would set for ourselves
Agreed. I did this a couple of times for a couple of different people, and in the end it just ended up where it was before. It all depends on the person’s want to make the change, and if that’s not there, this won’t make much of a difference.
I wish there was a job like this , I don’t wanna be a house keeper I just wanna clean up depression dens and dirty AF homes . Idk if it makes sense but that would be my kinda dream job .
Hopefully she gets both. I have a therapist but not a housekeeper, mine never gets this bad anymore but this person is right that breaking that cycle can help put someone on the right track to start feeling better and start making changes. It can get overwhelming living like this, even if you’re working hard on your journey a therapist can’t come clean with you so getting this done can be a boon
Seen her videos, she helps a lot of people by cleaning their depression nests. She really is amazing, does all of that for free and often travels quite far away. She usually gets her travel costs covered by sponsors, but can you imagine how much work houses like this need to make them look clean again?
U know I started doing that, when I’m making like eggs or something that requires like 5 minutes in the microwave, I just put things away/ clean them So I don’t have to deal with things left outside. It’s a good way to kill time spent otherwise wasted
This is the truth. Im an untidy but clean person, if that makes any sense, and I get really frustrated sometimes because I feel like I spend half of my life cleaning, and nothing is ever clean. I feel like a hamster on a wheel. you have to get to a point where its clean, and then stay out in front of it always;
The nursing school at UCSF, Divisadaro in San Francisco. They have an entire program about healing Hoarders. An actual textbook and and trained people that come out and help you
I'm not sure this is really a hoarder. Just someone with depression who literally can't find the motivation to clean. I've dealt with it myself and it's the worst. You are sitting in your dirty ass house and you know you are a fucking slob and it would only take a hour or so a day to have it at least looking decent within a week. But you just don't, and shit keeps piling up.
My 71-year-old father is a hoarder, and he lives in SF. Not sure anyone could break through to him, but I'd love it if one of these people could help him.
I hate to say this, but I’ve cleaned for people who lived like this, and as soon as I was done, it went right back the way it was. It’s a lifestyle position, either through depression, or apathy, or I don’t know what. But these people need more than a clean space to change.
From what I can see above, she goes out of her way to help mentally ill people who request this assistance. I’m sure some of them fall right back in, but hopefully some of them are already getting help but are stuck feeling helpless to get that part of their lives back on track. I know when I was at my worst, one of the best things someone did was just spend a couple HOURS on my hair and wardrobe. We sat there and went through all the garbage clothes I was hoarding, she washed and did a mask for my hair, and like, I was coming back up out of a depressive state, it was the boost I needed to carry myself the rest of the way.
Like a mate of my father... he was always a small slob but after his mother died it got worse. His Kitchen or place never looked this extreme but idk the last time he actually deep cleaned before we had to put him into a proper facility. Cleaning his place and get rid of all the stuff was interesting...
I had a doctor who actually made me cry because she said that living with my chronic sleep issues must have been very difficult and it felt so good to finally feel validated after a decade of listening to doctors tell me there was nothing wrong with me.
I’m sorry you couldn’t get real help when you reached out for it. Keep trying! It might take a lot of agonizing self-advocacy and solo research but you you’ll get there. Rooting for you to find someone who will listen and steer you in a positive, more cleanly direction!
That sucks. There's often an endless loop of negative emotions you need to break before recovering from this. One thing you can try is taking a break from your daily routines and giving your brain completely new stuff to process. Go to new places, do a new activity, etc. Our minds are often stuck in a negative feedback loop because we repeat every day the same.
Saw further down thread that you're Aussie and I'm so sorry you're stuck on the shitty GP/ shitty psych merry go round. Best advice I can give for finding a good person is seeking out reviews on people before you see them.
I saw an interview with someone who works with hoarders and he said the one thing that is common amongst all of them is they all absolutely believe that tomorrow they're going to clean everything up.
My sister in law is a hoarder and we have done this many times. They aren’t as gross in the kitchen but definitely the piles of dirty dishes. It’s full days work per room. We’ve done the garage and rented a giant dumpster. It always comes back but it feels really good for a while. They’ve actually got at least the living room consistently un-hoarded.
I'm 35 now. But when I was growing up with a single father with a drinking problem, our house was very bad. A terrible mix of filthy and a hoarder house. When I was in jr high school I started realizing that my house was not normal. And I was definently a sad kid. But in high school I started to open up and got some close friends. One of my friends was a super sweet Muslim kid. He was incredibly nice to everyone and I always admired that in him. One day he told me he was coming over and I freaked out. Like" um well my house is a mess. I dont want you to see it. " with out missing a beat he said. "Oh that's ok my parents can be messy too. We should help your dad out and clean the house for him" and that's what he did... That day we were throwing out a bunch of garbage from the kitchen and we stumbled across a old food dish full of maggots and mold. I was so embarrassed, but he just cleared all that shit into a garbage bag and moved on like it was nothing. I apologized for it and he was like" it's no big deal dude we just got to throw it away."
I feel like the show “Hoarders” put these people down and yet this women came in with zero judgement and zero fees to do something difficult just to see another human smile. Really amazing woman.
I’ve never been able to watch Hoarders or any other similar shows because it feels too voyeuristic. Hoarding is an anxiety disorder, and it hit way too close to home to see people struggle with their anxiety like that.
She seems to have antidepressants so she's definitely seeing one tho, you can't buy them without a recipe here in Finland. So at least she's been trying to get help which can be one of the hardest things to do.
I used to wonder how someone's place could get so bad. Now that I've been through this I am so grateful there are people like her. Sometimes all we need is a push in the right direction
It's mostly exhaustion. Things get a little dirty, but you're so tired so you say you'll deal with it on the weekend. But in the meantime the mess grows and when the weekend comes the mess starts feeling overwhelming and you're still so tired, so you say you'll sleep over the weekend and be refreshed to tackle it next week. But the mess keeps growing and the idea of fixing it becomes more whelming and the stress makes you more exhausted. It's a vicious cycle.
Why the fuck would you even scrub those dirty floors if you could just snap your fingers and everything gets cleaned? I would help someone too if I have this kind of powers.
You're not wrong, but a change in pace does help a lot to shake up stuck mindsets. Even if things may go back the same again, it has an effect on the present moment.
My gf owns a cleaning company and once every week she makes sure to clean for someone like this, or people who just can't afford it like vets and what not. Really makes a difference in people's lives
Maybe it'll become like this again, or maybe they'll gain the strength from seeing it clean the way it should be to keep it that way. The person who cleaned it took that gamble and seems quite content with it, why can't you?
Tbh - I need help from someone like this. :/ But I am too embarrassed to ask for it from anyone I know. And I don’t want to put anyone through the burden that I can’t even deal with myself.
I used to live in filth when I was depressed, I got over it and live fine now. If I were to get put in a facility because of my depression I would have seen it as being imprisoned for thinking of myself as lesser than other, which would have made me think even less of myself which would have most likely caused me to end my own life. Now I work with mentally disabled and mentally ill people. Don't be so blind as to see the world as black and white, by the way I work home Healthcare because when I worked in a facility I realized that in a lot of cases it did more bad than good. I wouldn't do this for free though, if this person truly did it for free that's some true strength in character
Lots of ignorant comments here. These people arent lazy, its called depression, and you clearly have never experienced the depths of hopelessness and pain it can cause if you cant understand how peoples kitchens get like this.
fr like if you think people letting their houses get dirty is bad wait until you hear about how some people literally end their lives. it's weird how people know depression can lead to suicide, but somehow view a messy kitchen as even more extreme t
I don’t think this is laziness. This looks like extreme depression. At my darkest point my place looked like this. Not quite as bad, but fucking gross. It wasn’t laziness that stopped me from cleaning it, but a deep, painful apathy and incredible sadness that made it so that I could not do anything about it no matter how much I wanted to.
id bet you it's not laziness. it looks like depression. depression causes this. I have it. been through this multiple times. and yes, the cycle is hard to break, but it's possible if they get a chance. in the previous state, 0%. that's way overwhelming, especially to a depressed person. now that it's clean, they have a little bit more of a chance.
You clearly have never experienced depression. Imagine being so low in life that you wish you were dead. Your last priority is cleaning up your kitchen and your first is simply finding the will to get out of bed and not kill yourself. I hope this never happens to you or a family member but if it did im sure you wouldnt call ur brother or mom “lazy”
I suffer from clinical depression and my kitchen wasn't far off this. The council replaced the entire kitchen recently (unrelated, it was just time for an upgrade) and ever since I have kept it clean, having something nice really makes you want to keep it nice. It definitely helped my mental health so this lady is doing a great service for people in need.
This is brilliant. I have had my mother come help me clean before. I was that down that things just got on top of me an I didn't know where to start. It wasn't dirty like this, just a bomb site, but iv managed to keep on top of it since an it helped lift my depression somewhat. Too many people judge straight up, like you are lazy. I don't have the will to live yet you think I have the will to clean my house lol. There are many things you can do to help somebody going through depression and this is one of them. "Break the cycle" is the perfect way to describe this.
Depression pit. Hard to break out of the cycle, and what this woman is doing is making it much easier for people. It's hard to ask for help without fear of judgement.
Man I really appreciate the fact she does this. I’ve been here myself. Not this bad but that being said. “Breaking the cycle” starts with you. Nothing changes if you don’t make the change yourself and want the change.
I was off work for depression/anxiety when the pandemic started. Before the pandemic I could at least go out to eat, but then I had to order take out... I accumulated tons of trash and couldn't get myself to clean up. I was despondent over lost treatment options for my depression (deep rTMS study, psilocybin study) and my place got worse and worse.
I do this for people in need of help as well. Depression and/or physical impairments can lead to this type of situation that only feeds into the negative feedback loop and will destroy a person's sense of well being and make them feel lost or hopeless. It falls on the shoulders of those who are able to be willing to lend a hand too them who are in need. I may not be a church-goer, but there are lessons to be learned and followed in books of faith.
I did this once to a friend who had a total mental breakdown and everyone told me not to. I fed his cat everyday and slowly slowly cleaned up his house. He’s ok now.
My depression looked like that 100%. I cleaned it after 2 years of isolation. Im still depressed but i can keep it cleaner now. I do my dishes after every meal so I cannot let it sit there and accumulate. Depression is a bitch.
Wow, I’m not gonna judge the person who owns the home. People go through a lot, and are affected by many thing. I just want to say what an amazing job the lady did! 👍
I know exactly what this is like and you get into this cycle of not being able to physically clean because you’re dealing with mental issues, then just seeing the kitchen on your way to get water causes deeper self shame and depression… this is a VICIOUS cycle and this woman is a SAINT. My entire apartment looks like this right now. I will be hiring a weekly maid soon, I’ll be able to afford it because instead of going to the bar to get trashed to avoid looking at my mess, I will be paying a maid to make me love being at home.
Its mostly about money & time. Depression took both so people are left in this state. Someone like this women who helps out would start the depressed person on path of recovery
This looks like a depression den.
Yeah that’s depression imo. Depression is scary.
I got like this once or twice in my life. Really bad like 6-7 years ago. Shit like this everywhere. I'm not a dirty person though. The funks ended and I was also heavily drinking during these periods (haven't drank in over two years). It's horrible really. Never be afraid to ask for help, especially small stuff before it snowballs into this.
She may have not gotten rid of the person’s depression but she must definitely made their life 100x better
Those people need more than a housekeeper, they need a psychiatrist and mental health check
I used to be a tidy person, depression crept up and said “fuck it..you live alone…who cares?” Nothing this bad, but it’s a level of mental illness and then it gets so bad you can’t even start. This woman is a rockstar for digging them out of the hole to get them to a place to start.
Yep. I've just started working on mine today. All the rotten food got pulled out of the fridge. Tomorrow night I'm off work so I'm going to put on Netflix and do as many dishes as possible. It's amazing what you can do when you find the right antidepressants.
The fact that she likes doing this and helps people is a win win
It’s amazing how much effect just cleaning a physical space around you can have on a mental state.
*depression house
Looks like depression in an elderly person who is enfeebled
It's quite likely an old lady who lives there. The video is from Finland, recognized it by some objects around the place like the books and stuff in the fridge.
Yup, been there. Trying desperately not to go back there right now 😔
Looks like how my exes place will look in about six months.
She must have a really good exterminator. All that slop and not one roach.
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Thanks for posting the link. As I commented on her video in the link, having been the person whose apartment was like this and gotten tremendous help from someone, it was a Godsend and is one of the reasons why I’m probably not dead (serious). I had been in major lay down and rot mode.
for free... i’m not crying, it’s allergies or onions or something... what an angel
This person is a saint. What an amazing soul.
“I have space in my kitchen” 😭🙌🏽 I hope this is the push she needed to turn things around!
This arrangement is absolutely perfect. Someone gets something they need or may not be and to afford, a content creator gets content to post that we enjoy then the creator gets paid far more for the video then they ever would have for the work.
ha i knew it was auri right awa, her vids are so satisfying
For free? Well now I feel like an asshole because the whole time I was thinking "she better have been paid a generous amount for this work".
I’ve got a crisp little $20 that says that house was an absolute disaster again within 2 weeks
I hope not, but I think you are right.
My family was hoarders growing up and that was always the worst part, me and one of my brothers would spend a month cleaning and getting it spotless just to it being back to trashed in a couple of weeks. We would mostly stick to our room that we kept clean ourselves. I will say this though my parents house has stayed clean for the past 5 years and they seemed to have broken the cycle recently, so there is hope. Although I'm still not taking that bet.
She has said before people will relapse, and she has helped a few people again for a second time. Depression sucks, without the right system of help, it's hard to break the cycle.
I get your point. But the point of this and the woman who does this is that it gives people hope and everyone deserves that.
I saw an episode of one of the hoarding shows that revisited people months or years later (edit to clarify: it was a compilation show, so it showed several people who had appeared on the show), and they actually had maintained the cleanliness, It was the show with Niecy Nash. I was really happy for the people.
The Youtube channel shows at least one follow-up (not this person but similar) and the place is still tidy and clean and organised. While you might be right about most of them relapsing, sometimes - just sometimes - a start will help. Depends on the issue I guess.
I agree with you...but then again, I am a messimist.
Exactly what I was thinking. This person was clearly not mentally stable and cleaning their house, while kind and helpful, is only a bandaid. It doesn’t address what got them to this place.
True but I have to think periodic cleaning such as this is better than the health hazard of not doing anything at all. Maybe the person can beathe now, can use their sink, maybe the roach life cycle got disrupted. The goals are probably different than what you or me would set for ourselves
Did this for my mother in law…took about 5 days to be absolutely filthy again
It took my sister 3 weeks.
I've cleaned for people like this and you are correct.
Hoarding has a terrible prognosis. There's some possibility this is just depression but if she's a hoarder then you're right
No way.
Agreed. I did this a couple of times for a couple of different people, and in the end it just ended up where it was before. It all depends on the person’s want to make the change, and if that’s not there, this won’t make much of a difference.
It’s all about building new habits but not everybody feels like they can change so they never try.
Absolutely. I've seen it first hand with my partner
I’m surprised this hasn’t made top comment. I know it’s the most obvious, low effort post.
As a persons who can not stay clean I can vouch
Those people need more than a housekeeper, they need a psychiatrist and mental health check
I wish there was a job like this , I don’t wanna be a house keeper I just wanna clean up depression dens and dirty AF homes . Idk if it makes sense but that would be my kinda dream job .
Hopefully she gets both. I have a therapist but not a housekeeper, mine never gets this bad anymore but this person is right that breaking that cycle can help put someone on the right track to start feeling better and start making changes. It can get overwhelming living like this, even if you’re working hard on your journey a therapist can’t come clean with you so getting this done can be a boon
clean space where you can mentally breathe is a very good start
Im.. imma go clean
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I was thinking the opposite. If I just let my house get REALLY dirty maybe this lady will come over and clean it for me.
Is this Katarina? I put her videos on all the time to motivate me to clean lol.
Seen her videos, she helps a lot of people by cleaning their depression nests. She really is amazing, does all of that for free and often travels quite far away. She usually gets her travel costs covered by sponsors, but can you imagine how much work houses like this need to make them look clean again?
I immediately recognized those pink nails haha, she's great to watch
Yes it’s her. Loved her videos
I've watched all her videos but I can't seem to get the snap to work.
This is fake, I’ve tried clicking my fingers to clean the house. It doesn’t work. Took me 4 hours and a dislocated thumb to realize.
Damn I was about to try it. Thank you for saving me the 3.1 calories
Wish I would have read this a few hours ago. Might as well give up and go for a skin graft for my thumbs.
I'm guessing you don't paint your nails hot pink.
you have to click right to left my dude
This really is amazing. I know it’s not a permanent solution, but a fresh start every once in awhile can surely make a difference.
From messing to neat and clean.
She is a saint! Those places are terrible. I've been there.
Imagine how bad you would feel, somebody went out of their way to clean your SUPER DIRTY shit.
Clean as you go. It's the only way to stay ahead of it. Noodles need 2 more minutes? That's 2 minutes of power-cleaning right there.
U know I started doing that, when I’m making like eggs or something that requires like 5 minutes in the microwave, I just put things away/ clean them So I don’t have to deal with things left outside. It’s a good way to kill time spent otherwise wasted
This is the truth. Im an untidy but clean person, if that makes any sense, and I get really frustrated sometimes because I feel like I spend half of my life cleaning, and nothing is ever clean. I feel like a hamster on a wheel. you have to get to a point where its clean, and then stay out in front of it always;
wowthanksimcured
The key is not to have deep running mental issues which this person clearly has.
The nursing school at UCSF, Divisadaro in San Francisco. They have an entire program about healing Hoarders. An actual textbook and and trained people that come out and help you
I'm not sure this is really a hoarder. Just someone with depression who literally can't find the motivation to clean. I've dealt with it myself and it's the worst. You are sitting in your dirty ass house and you know you are a fucking slob and it would only take a hour or so a day to have it at least looking decent within a week. But you just don't, and shit keeps piling up.
My 71-year-old father is a hoarder, and he lives in SF. Not sure anyone could break through to him, but I'd love it if one of these people could help him.
Did that to my sister's house and it was back looking horrible in about three weeks.
I'm sure I'll get hate for this but no matter what someone's problem is, you can't help someone who doesn't want to be helped.
Yea that’s a mental problem they need to address. Having an outside person clean up isn’t going to fix the underlying problem.
I hate to say this, but I’ve cleaned for people who lived like this, and as soon as I was done, it went right back the way it was. It’s a lifestyle position, either through depression, or apathy, or I don’t know what. But these people need more than a clean space to change.
From what I can see above, she goes out of her way to help mentally ill people who request this assistance. I’m sure some of them fall right back in, but hopefully some of them are already getting help but are stuck feeling helpless to get that part of their lives back on track. I know when I was at my worst, one of the best things someone did was just spend a couple HOURS on my hair and wardrobe. We sat there and went through all the garbage clothes I was hoarding, she washed and did a mask for my hair, and like, I was coming back up out of a depressive state, it was the boost I needed to carry myself the rest of the way.
Like a mate of my father... he was always a small slob but after his mother died it got worse. His Kitchen or place never looked this extreme but idk the last time he actually deep cleaned before we had to put him into a proper facility. Cleaning his place and get rid of all the stuff was interesting...
$300 coffee pot though
I had to rewind to confirm it was a moccamaster. It hurt my soul a little bit to see it in that condition.
That was the first thing I thought also. I have it and love mine. Hate when I get a little coffee stain in it. Couldn't imagine it looking like that!
Shiiiiit try $350 nowadays
I am halfway to this. I keep seeking help professionally and none of them believe me because I work (part-time) and appear neat.
I had a doctor who actually made me cry because she said that living with my chronic sleep issues must have been very difficult and it felt so good to finally feel validated after a decade of listening to doctors tell me there was nothing wrong with me.
I’m sorry you couldn’t get real help when you reached out for it. Keep trying! It might take a lot of agonizing self-advocacy and solo research but you you’ll get there. Rooting for you to find someone who will listen and steer you in a positive, more cleanly direction!
Holy shit, why are all the doctors over there idiots?
Wtf are wrong with those doctors. Here's a comment to raise your morale a little bit so you can seek help again.
That sucks. There's often an endless loop of negative emotions you need to break before recovering from this. One thing you can try is taking a break from your daily routines and giving your brain completely new stuff to process. Go to new places, do a new activity, etc. Our minds are often stuck in a negative feedback loop because we repeat every day the same.
God, I fucking hate doctors. Every one I've ever met is like "you can walk. Stop wasting my time."
Saw further down thread that you're Aussie and I'm so sorry you're stuck on the shitty GP/ shitty psych merry go round. Best advice I can give for finding a good person is seeking out reviews on people before you see them.
How nice. It’ll end up a mess in no time
I saw an interview with someone who works with hoarders and he said the one thing that is common amongst all of them is they all absolutely believe that tomorrow they're going to clean everything up.
They really do. It’s sweet and very sad
Just give them a shit ton of adderal
My sister in law is a hoarder and we have done this many times. They aren’t as gross in the kitchen but definitely the piles of dirty dishes. It’s full days work per room. We’ve done the garage and rented a giant dumpster. It always comes back but it feels really good for a while. They’ve actually got at least the living room consistently un-hoarded.
I'm 35 now. But when I was growing up with a single father with a drinking problem, our house was very bad. A terrible mix of filthy and a hoarder house. When I was in jr high school I started realizing that my house was not normal. And I was definently a sad kid. But in high school I started to open up and got some close friends. One of my friends was a super sweet Muslim kid. He was incredibly nice to everyone and I always admired that in him. One day he told me he was coming over and I freaked out. Like" um well my house is a mess. I dont want you to see it. " with out missing a beat he said. "Oh that's ok my parents can be messy too. We should help your dad out and clean the house for him" and that's what he did... That day we were throwing out a bunch of garbage from the kitchen and we stumbled across a old food dish full of maggots and mold. I was so embarrassed, but he just cleared all that shit into a garbage bag and moved on like it was nothing. I apologized for it and he was like" it's no big deal dude we just got to throw it away."
That friend sounds like a one in a million. I hope you stayed in contact with him
What a way to love somebody who may not be receiving much. This is wholesome even if she’s getting paid
I feel like the show “Hoarders” put these people down and yet this women came in with zero judgement and zero fees to do something difficult just to see another human smile. Really amazing woman.
I’ve never been able to watch Hoarders or any other similar shows because it feels too voyeuristic. Hoarding is an anxiety disorder, and it hit way too close to home to see people struggle with their anxiety like that.
I would need 4-$5,000
Yeah I'd definitely clean houses like this for the right amount of money
As someone who just had their family help me unfuck my home like this, I appreciate it so much.
She don’t need a maid she needs a therapist
She seems to have antidepressants so she's definitely seeing one tho, you can't buy them without a recipe here in Finland. So at least she's been trying to get help which can be one of the hardest things to do.
I used to wonder how someone's place could get so bad. Now that I've been through this I am so grateful there are people like her. Sometimes all we need is a push in the right direction
It's mostly exhaustion. Things get a little dirty, but you're so tired so you say you'll deal with it on the weekend. But in the meantime the mess grows and when the weekend comes the mess starts feeling overwhelming and you're still so tired, so you say you'll sleep over the weekend and be refreshed to tackle it next week. But the mess keeps growing and the idea of fixing it becomes more whelming and the stress makes you more exhausted. It's a vicious cycle.
OMG what a transformation
"This woman works as people's maid for free so they can go a little longer without dealing with their shit"
Why the fuck would you even scrub those dirty floors if you could just snap your fingers and everything gets cleaned? I would help someone too if I have this kind of powers.
If the show Hoarders has taught me anything, this person needs an intervention.
That’s Auri Katarina. She is from Finland and has a YouTube channel and cleans depressed peoples houses for free. She’s really cool.
So that they can fuck it up again! Woot!
You're not wrong, but a change in pace does help a lot to shake up stuck mindsets. Even if things may go back the same again, it has an effect on the present moment.
Music sauce?
Depression is a ruthless bitch and this person is amazing for doing what they do
The level of anxiety this video causes me is off the charts!
They won't "break the cycle". All it takes is another month to be back to this.
My gf owns a cleaning company and once every week she makes sure to clean for someone like this, or people who just can't afford it like vets and what not. Really makes a difference in people's lives
your gf is a saint. i wish there were more people like this, because it 100% makes a difference
As someone insanely depressed at one point with a house nearly that bad, god bless this woman
I want to do this.
Depression is a bitch. My mom would do this for me in my teen years and always seemed to help me get out of it. Had to do it for my kid too.
Lesson learned: Leave it long enough and someone else will clean it. Well done.
Maybe it'll become like this again, or maybe they'll gain the strength from seeing it clean the way it should be to keep it that way. The person who cleaned it took that gamble and seems quite content with it, why can't you?
I wish someone could help me with this. Mental illness is a bitch.
Tbh - I need help from someone like this. :/ But I am too embarrassed to ask for it from anyone I know. And I don’t want to put anyone through the burden that I can’t even deal with myself.
If you can't do it in one sitting just do a little bit every day. It adds up faster than you'd think.
I know a saint when i see one.
Sadly there is a high likelihood the kitchen will return to a state of filth again.
This is really wonderful. I can’t tell if it’s depression or hoarding, but I hope this person is doing better.
That person needs to live in a facility
I used to live in filth when I was depressed, I got over it and live fine now. If I were to get put in a facility because of my depression I would have seen it as being imprisoned for thinking of myself as lesser than other, which would have made me think even less of myself which would have most likely caused me to end my own life. Now I work with mentally disabled and mentally ill people. Don't be so blind as to see the world as black and white, by the way I work home Healthcare because when I worked in a facility I realized that in a lot of cases it did more bad than good. I wouldn't do this for free though, if this person truly did it for free that's some true strength in character
I love this lady she encourages people to not be ashamed when asking for help
Lots of ignorant comments here. These people arent lazy, its called depression, and you clearly have never experienced the depths of hopelessness and pain it can cause if you cant understand how peoples kitchens get like this.
fr like if you think people letting their houses get dirty is bad wait until you hear about how some people literally end their lives. it's weird how people know depression can lead to suicide, but somehow view a messy kitchen as even more extreme t
Should have just burned it down.
thank fuck for people that can do these kinds of jobs, they the real mvps tbh
Those lazy bastards will inevitably ‘recreate the cycle’.
I don’t think this is laziness. This looks like extreme depression. At my darkest point my place looked like this. Not quite as bad, but fucking gross. It wasn’t laziness that stopped me from cleaning it, but a deep, painful apathy and incredible sadness that made it so that I could not do anything about it no matter how much I wanted to.
id bet you it's not laziness. it looks like depression. depression causes this. I have it. been through this multiple times. and yes, the cycle is hard to break, but it's possible if they get a chance. in the previous state, 0%. that's way overwhelming, especially to a depressed person. now that it's clean, they have a little bit more of a chance.
You clearly have never experienced depression. Imagine being so low in life that you wish you were dead. Your last priority is cleaning up your kitchen and your first is simply finding the will to get out of bed and not kill yourself. I hope this never happens to you or a family member but if it did im sure you wouldnt call ur brother or mom “lazy”
Yep..I really hope this person didnt do this for free..I give it 5 months before it's a shit hole again
What products does that woman use? Those are the products I want to buy when it comes to cleaning my own place.
She uses mainly dishsoap, oven cleaner, Power paste, Scrub Mommy/Daddy and a cleaner blade made for cleaning. Products are mentioned in some of her
I suffer from clinical depression and my kitchen wasn't far off this. The council replaced the entire kitchen recently (unrelated, it was just time for an upgrade) and ever since I have kept it clean, having something nice really makes you want to keep it nice. It definitely helped my mental health so this lady is doing a great service for people in need.
1 week later …
Depression be some shit don’t it.
How the fuck can someone live like this
Rhetorical question, but I'll answer.I wish, you will never learn how. You don't want it.
I’ve watched a bunch of her videos. It’s so satisfying to watch her transform a room.
Technivorm Moccamaster... Awesome coffee maker. I have a similar one. thing will last longer then the owner,
Best coffee maker I've ever had.
“Helps” aka does the work that those lazy idiots wouldn’t do.
I'd bet 50 bucks it's not laziness. it's severe depression.
Don't be so short sighted
I can’t believe she does that mask less
Depression killed my dreams
mine too. wanted to do work in astronomy and astrophysics and now I can't even do algebra without slamming my fists on the table.
This is brilliant. I have had my mother come help me clean before. I was that down that things just got on top of me an I didn't know where to start. It wasn't dirty like this, just a bomb site, but iv managed to keep on top of it since an it helped lift my depression somewhat. Too many people judge straight up, like you are lazy. I don't have the will to live yet you think I have the will to clean my house lol. There are many things you can do to help somebody going through depression and this is one of them. "Break the cycle" is the perfect way to describe this.
Depression pit. Hard to break out of the cycle, and what this woman is doing is making it much easier for people. It's hard to ask for help without fear of judgement.
And people wonder if hell is in the afterlife....
Hope that comes with a script and weekly counseling.
Any parent will tell you that "breaking the cycle" is a myth. But she's still a hero in my book.
She has a sense of humanity.
Anybody have the name of the song?
I just sound hounded it it's all that glitters by earl
Man I really appreciate the fact she does this. I’ve been here myself. Not this bad but that being said. “Breaking the cycle” starts with you. Nothing changes if you don’t make the change yourself and want the change.
what a saint, i am disgusted anyone could live like that
depressions a bitch.
I was off work for depression/anxiety when the pandemic started. Before the pandemic I could at least go out to eat, but then I had to order take out... I accumulated tons of trash and couldn't get myself to clean up. I was despondent over lost treatment options for my depression (deep rTMS study, psilocybin study) and my place got worse and worse.
As someone who recently finished their Spring Cleaning... This really makes a difference to your mental well-being.
I do this for people in need of help as well. Depression and/or physical impairments can lead to this type of situation that only feeds into the negative feedback loop and will destroy a person's sense of well being and make them feel lost or hopeless. It falls on the shoulders of those who are able to be willing to lend a hand too them who are in need. I may not be a church-goer, but there are lessons to be learned and followed in books of faith.
This is likely life saving work in some cases, really good job!
My exes apartment looked like this. I completely cleaned it, top to bottom.
I did this once to a friend who had a total mental breakdown and everyone told me not to. I fed his cat everyday and slowly slowly cleaned up his house. He’s ok now.
My depression looked like that 100%. I cleaned it after 2 years of isolation. Im still depressed but i can keep it cleaner now. I do my dishes after every meal so I cannot let it sit there and accumulate. Depression is a bitch.
Wow, I’m not gonna judge the person who owns the home. People go through a lot, and are affected by many thing. I just want to say what an amazing job the lady did! 👍
She 100% is going to dirty it again
I know exactly what this is like and you get into this cycle of not being able to physically clean because you’re dealing with mental issues, then just seeing the kitchen on your way to get water causes deeper self shame and depression… this is a VICIOUS cycle and this woman is a SAINT. My entire apartment looks like this right now. I will be hiring a weekly maid soon, I’ll be able to afford it because instead of going to the bar to get trashed to avoid looking at my mess, I will be paying a maid to make me love being at home.
People who live like that don’t just need someone to clean their house. There are deeper issues.
That woman is a freaking saint.
Its mostly about money & time. Depression took both so people are left in this state. Someone like this women who helps out would start the depressed person on path of recovery
That's the kitchen. Yikes to the rest of the house
(shudders)
I watch her YouTube!
How did they get the oven that clean?!
that’s being more disgusting than depressed.
Who tf lets it collapse to that point tho?
Def depression or other mental health
I don’t know how much she gets paid but give her a raise
I don't know who's eva but fuck that bitch
How are we not burning these places down?
Guaranteed, 6 months and it will be just as bad
Pretty sure this video is reversed and she’s snapping her fingers to create grimy garbage all over the place
I did this for someone and it was back to its original state in less than 2 weeks lol