#control-mechanisms

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fromSilicon Canals
19 hours ago

The people who keep their home impossibly clean aren't necessarily organized. Some of them grew up in chaos and the only variable they could control was their physical space, and they've never stopped trying to create order in the one domain that actually responds to effort. - Silicon Canals

Compulsive tidiness often stems from childhood adversity, serving as a coping mechanism for control in unpredictable environments.
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