Possessions- being ready to run

[Silverbirch]

I've been having some strange thoughts recently and I just wanted to see if anyone has had similar feelings.

I get very stressed and anxious in cluttered spaces, places that are 'visually noisy.' All the colour and obects seem to be shouting at me and I can't focus on any of them. I'm trying now to make my bedroom a stress-free zone, which has included throwing away most of my possessions unless they are actively useful, taking pictures down off the walls etc. etc. This makes me calmer, but I'm getting obsessed with it. Everything I own seems to weigh on me. I wish I could just run away and have no possessions at all, but at the same time I don't want to give away things with good memories for me. It worries me a lot, all the overconsumption in the world.

... I've started thinking of this as "being able to run away" if I ever needed to. I want to be able to fit all my posessions into a backpack. I've nowhere to run to but the thought calms me a great deal.

Does anyone else with anxiety issues feel the same way about posessions and thier environment?

[Sonic Dreams]

i can see where you're coming from, but i'm sort of the opposite. i need to have lots of things in my room to...comfort me, i suppose? posters, teddies, beanbag, rocking chair, cushions etc., plus 3 lava lamps, and a fibre-optic thing.

...i have a lot of crap in my room. if i did have to run away, all i'd take is my favourite teddy(-can't sleep without him. like, at all) and clothes, +ipod. i'm not hugely attached to most of the things in my room. i could get by if they just disappeared, but...i would rather they be here because...well, they're the things which make my room, -my room-.

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[guiltyinnocence]

i know what you mean. sometimes the world can appear very 'intense' to me, colours and what not and noises seem louder...not the same i know, but kinda similar
as morrigan said maybe you could put things in boxes or storage for the time being?
xxxx

[Silverbirch]

Thanks you guys *hugs* I've put away lots of my stuff in boxes like you said, so I don't have it shouting in my face.