Twenty-six-year-old Jonna Rosalind of Sweden shared before and after photos of her bedroom on Imgur, and they’ve gone viral. The young woman wanted to show some of depression’s effects on her by letting others see how her room looks when she’s in its throes, as well as what her room is capable of looking like. Here’s an excerpt from Upworthy’s piece on her, and we hope you’ll click through for the full post. If you’re in the greater Cleveland area and find you can relate to the heaviness that prevented Jonna from cleaning, and you think you may have depression, we hope you’ll reach out for an evaluation.
Living with a mental illness affects many areas of a person’s life, including one annoyance most of us can relate to: the dread of household chores.
But for Roslund — and many people living with depression — the process of cleaning can be about so much more than simply tidying up.
“I suffer from severe depression and have a really hard time with cleaning and doing other kinds of household work,” she wrote in a post on Imgur.
“My room [has] been this messy for several months [because] I can’t push myself to take care of it,” she explained. “But this Friday I decided to finally do it!”
She posted two photos of her bedroom — one before cleaning up, and one afterward.