Scientific Evidence Has Established That Clutter Causes Anxiety and Impacts Your Emotional Health

6Clutter produces negative visual stimuli

According to Carter, there are 8 factors that make clutter cause stress. Clutter creates a huge amount of stimuli through sight, sound, touch, smell and taste in the external world. Clutter makes our senses work overtime on the type of stimuli that isn’t important for our productive and developing life. 

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7Anxiety and anxiousness because of items lost in clutter

Clutter reduces attention span as we cease to focus on goals or immediate tasks. Instead we have to stress ourselves out by focusing on the clutter. Clutter causes huge anxiety in people simply because they can’t seem to figure out where things are. The anxiousness is also in regards to the effort of having to go through the clutter to find things. 

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8Clutter is taxing on the brain

Clutter makes it hard for anyone to relax. This is due to the fact that people then start to think about having to clear the mess up themselves which is taxing on the mind. When the brain registers on clutter, it gets the signal that “work is never done”. Clutter influences our brain to experience a sense of incomplete reality. You could have finished all your work but because of the clutter, something seems always lacking and unfinished. 

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9Clutter induces mixed emotions

Clutter causes different emotions in different people. In those who like seeing things tidy, clutter can make them feel guilty or even embarrassed. Those who do clutter their home are more likely to feel the constant anxiety of the problem. 

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10Clutter impedes productivity and creativity

Carter says that a non-cluttered environment makes people more productive and creative. On the other hand cluttered spaces prevent a person from being so. Clutter also makes a person agitated and experience feelings of anger and frustration because we can’t find things among the clutter. With clutter, one cannot indulge in brainstorming and problem-solving. 

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