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swapna
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@WhiteHouse Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
I'll be watching you
Every single day
And every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
I'll be watching you
- The Police
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@CRISPRKING @Rainmaker1973 exactly what stood out to me - the solutions did not include the obvious, sharing the load with rest of the household.
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The gender cortisol disparity from clutter reflects who bears mental load of household management, not biological difference. Women socialized as household managers notice disorder as pending tasks requiring cognitive bandwidth. Men conditioned to view household as someone else's domain don't experience same stress response. The invisible labor of noticing, planning, and executing maintenance creates chronic low-level stress that manifests physiologically. The three-part framework is solid but ignores power dynamics—women shouldn't have to shed, prevent, and adapt alone when partners contribute to clutter. Real solution is equitable distribution of mental load, not women optimizing around male indifference. The acceptance of "inevitable clutter" risks normalizing unequal labor. The cortisol research proves what women report anecdotally—domestic disorder isn't aesthetic preference, it's cognitive burden. Fix the labor distribution, not just the woman's stress response.
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New research shows clutter dramatically spikes women’s cortisol—while men’s stress barely budges.
Household clutter extends far beyond mere aesthetics—it's deeply intertwined with stress physiology and cognitive burden, impacting women in particular.
Drawing from studies on dual-income married couples, therapist Elizabeth Earnshaw explains that women who view their homes as cluttered often see their cortisol levels rise throughout the day, unlike those who feel at ease, whose levels naturally decline. This heightened effect in women stems largely from bearing the disproportionate invisible mental load—the constant cycle of noticing, recalling, planning, and orchestrating household tasks.
Earnshaw suggests a realistic, three-part approach to reducing the stress–clutter spiral.
First, “shedding” involves intentionally minimizing possessions, including doing the emotional work required to let things go, in order to create more mental and physical space. Second, “preventing” focuses on systems: giving items clear “homes” so that decisions about where things go become automatic rather than mentally taxing. This may start with listing common types of clutter and designing dedicated spots for each (for example, a single, consistent place for receipts). Third, “adapting” asks families to accept that some clutter is inevitable in busy seasons of life and to concentrate on emotional regulation and co-regulation with partners, keeping stress and cortisol lower by adjusting expectations rather than striving for a perpetually picture-perfect home.
[Earnshaw, E., "Clutter, Cortisol, and Mental Load". Psychology Today, 2024]
[Saxbe, D. E., & Repetti, R. , "No place like home: Home tours correlate with daily patterns of mood and cortisol", Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 36(1), 71–81, 2010, DOI: 10.1177/0146167209352864]

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