What is the first place to clean after you recover from a bout of depression?
Keeping your family safe from any illness as you struggle with depression is a serious matter. We need to take it seriously.Â
The one place you need to clean as soon as you get better is the toilet and the bathroom. We can overlook other places, but a few are very important and are without a doubt the priority when you do a cleanup after depression.
We abandoned a lot of things when we get a bout of depression. By the time we get out of that dark hole, the entire house is unbearable. This is not healthy for our mental health. If there is anything, it aids our depression and makes things worse.Â
Any way, the first thing you need to do is to clean the toilet and the bathroom, and try to do it every morning. Cleaning the toilet and the bathroom every morning is part of the Smart spark Living Morning cleaning routine.
The Smart Spark morning routine will surely keep your home clean, with no stress.Â
 This is not a deep cleaning, this is a quick clean to eliminate any bacteria and germs lurking around in the toilet and bathroom.
It’s a quick clean to bring things in order after being abandoned during your depression episode.
You want to keep the bad guys at bay. The last thing you want is to have another burden, of a sick child, on top of your struggles.Â
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Remember, this is not a deep cleaning mission.Â
How to clean your bathroom and toilet after a bout of depression.
Above I mentioned, this cleaning is not a big clean. So here is what you need to do.
- Empty the rubbish bins
- Flush the toilet
- Use and anti bacterial spray to spray the toilet bowl under the seat, the body of the toilet seat, the floor and the walls. Â
- Leave the toilet with the antibacterial spray for 10-15 minutes
Now move on to the bathroom and shower.
- Clear the sink of clutter and put things in place.
- With an antibacterial spray, spary the sink and the vanity.
- Now you move on to the shower-Pick up anything from the floor and put them in place.
- Rinse down the shower, the walls, and the floor.
- With an antibacterial spray, spray the whole shower. The walls, the floor and the shower head.
- Leave the spray to sit for 10 to 15 minutes.
Go back to the toilet:
Now you go back to the toilet and start
- Mopping down the walls.
- Then mop the floor.
- Mop the outside of the toilet seat. If you find it hard, to use the mop for the body of the toilet seat. Then get down on your knees and wipe it down with toilet tissues.
Flush the tissues in the toilet.
- Now, wipe down the spray on the toilet seat with tissues, flush the tissues in the toilet.
- Once you finish wiping down the toilet seat and the tank. Spray under the seat of the toilet and inside the toilet bowl with the antibacterial spray and leave it there.
Now you go back to the bathroom and shower.
- Get out your scrubber and scrub the sink.
- Wipe down the vanity and rinse down the sink.
Shower.
- Take a broom (not the small cleaning brush) and scrub down the walls and the floor (if you have the energy for it)
- Rinse down the shower walls.Â
- Rinse down the place (shelf) where soap and all bottles etc,. belongs.Â
- Rinse all the bottles.
- Wash the soap with your hands under running waterÂ
- Put things back to their place.
Repeat this process every day in the morning to keep your bathroom and toilet hygienically clean.Â
Note:Â
- Do not clean the walls of the toilet again. They can wait for its turn on your task of the day plan. Or on the next clean after a bout of depression clean up. (whatever comes first)
- Do not broom down the walls of the shower- just spray. Leave it for a few minutes, then rinse down.
- Because you’re now doing these daily, you don’t have to leave the antibacterial spray longer than 3- 5 minutes
This will look after things if you get tired or unwell for a day or two. Â
