A specific question, answered specifically.

How to clean the house when ADHD paralysis takes over

ADHD cleaning paralysis is real. You walk into a room, see 47 things that need to happen, and walk out. The standard advice ("just start somewhere!") is the wrong tool because the problem isn't where to start — it's deciding where, while every option screams equally. The mechanism is in what is task initiation paralysis and how do I fix it.

What actually works

Pick the room with the most surface clutter. Set a 60-minute Time Timer. Do exactly one thing for 12 minutes: surface cleanup. Not deep cleaning. Not organizing. Move things to where they belong, throw away obvious trash, leave everything else.

After 12 minutes, stop. The room won't be done. That's fine. Tomorrow you do another 12-minute pass. By day 4 the surface is clear. THEN you can think about deeper cleaning, or hire someone, or accept that this is the level of clean you're going to live with. The free 12-minute timer is calibrated to exactly this purpose — start it and stop when it ends.

What doesn't work

"Declutter first, clean second." Decluttering is a 40-hour project for an ADHD brain. By the time you've decluttered, you've moved into a state worse than where you started.

The Marie Kondo method. We respect Marie. The method does not survive contact with adult ADHD.

Hiring once. Cleaning services help, but they leave the house in the same shape it'll be in two weeks. The pattern is the issue, not the dust.

The Deskrune version

SelfHealer Basics includes a "physical environment 12-minute reset" page — works for desks, kitchens, bathrooms. Not a deep-clean checklist; a "stop the chaos from compounding" protocol. $4.99 through May 31.