I have to admit, I’m the type of person who gets very overwhelmed and loses track of her life.
I tend to find myself getting anxious and overloaded throughout the year.
At a certain point, I completely give up on everything I need to accomplish. This is true when it comes to my household responsibilities and especially taking care of myself. Recently, I realized that I was falling into my old depressive trap again. The realization came to me on the day that I noticed my indoor air quality was suffering greatly. It felt hot and humid in my house no matter what room I went into. Then, I started seeing the mold. It looks like every air vent was surrounded by a dark patch of mold or mildew. I eventually traced to the root of the issue back to my bathroom. This is when I made an unfortunate connection between my lack of self-care and my failing indoor air quality. All of the times that I was too overwhelmed to pay attention to myself resulted and taking extremely long and hot showers to decompress. The heat and humidity from the bathroom air was causing a lot of indoor mildew and mold growth. That’s the moment when I realized I was going to have to take better care of everything, starting with my indoor air quality. I called out the HVAC technician and had him install a dehumidifier for my bathroom. Now, at least I can take my relaxing showers without worrying about giving myself unhealthy indoor air. One less thing to get depressed about.