Whenever I descend into a mental health episode (often, but not always, triggered by cycle-related hormonal changes), there’s very specific signs both my wife and I pick up on. She usually notices it earlier than me, though. The pattern is always the same: Issues falling asleep, feeling inexplicably sad and without energy, not finding joy in anything I usually like, or possibly sleeping almost all day. Getting up the next morning with a very, very low tolerance for clutter, or even owning anything more than bare necessities. Being extremely sensitive to dirt, smells, messes, crumbs and so on. The entire living space and my body starts to feel contaminated. This causing me to spiral and feeling overwhelmed, ranting about how the apartment is hopeless, that I wish I could just leave it or burn it down, that I wanna sell everything, what needs to be done etc. I start cleaning and tidying up for hours in a really tense way, maybe even decluttering, if I can manage and am not frozen in…
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