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[quote=Anonymous]I need suggestions for my DD's room.  She is 15 and has ADHD and anxiety.  She has a small bedroom with a bed with two storage drawers underneath, and a small walk-in closet.  In the closet is one tall chest of mesh drawers from the container store, about a 4' bar for hanging clothes, and three shelves (about 4' wide) on the other side for folded clothes.

She's in 10th grade.  She excels academically and is the VP of her class and holds a leadership position in a youth program outside of school.  But her room is literally covered with about 2 feet of a mix of clean and dirty clothes, various junk, trash, etc.  I have her neurology and disorder makes me crazy.  But, I just close her door so I can't see the mess so it won't bother me.  But I'm worried that is is effecting her mentally/emotionally. It makes me sad to see her sitting on her bed with her laptop working surrounded by complete disorder and mess.  She doesn't like disorder either, but she just can't get it together to keep her room clean - and then it gets to bad it's completely overwhelming so she just sits in the mess.  I think she gets hyper focused on school work and other things, and then rushes to get dressed or to get to other things when she gets out of the shower, etc.  So, she pulls one sweatshirt down from the shelf, for example, and doesn't notice that the other 15 have fallen on the closet floor in an avalanche.  She gets out of the shower and leaves her towel on the floor and gets a new one the next time.  She does her laundry when she gets desperate, and then doesn't fold it and leaves it in a basket that eventually ends up on the floor mixed with other clean and dirty clothes.

Today she's at school and I'm off of work, and I thought I'd help her (which I do occasionally when it gets really bad) and I just can't do it.  It's overwhelming for ME.  Also, when I do this it takes me 2-3 hours and then I get totally resentful when a few days later it's back to where it was.

I have given her suggestions about how to keep it clean which she doesn't take.  I'm wondering if a better system for her closet might help.  She says its partly because her "storage sucks."  Any suggestions?[/quote]

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