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TED演讲:抑郁了还怎么洗衣服

TED演讲:抑郁了还怎么洗衣服

TED演讲:抑郁了还怎么洗衣服

发布于 2026-10-17 · 时长 12:58

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0:04Shortly after I published my book, I got an email.我出版书后不久就收到一封邮件
0:07It said,它说,
0:08your book was the only thing that saved me from suicide.你的书是唯一能让我免于自杀的
0:12You saved my life.你救了我的命 你救了我的命 你救了我的命
0:14Now, for a book about how to clean, that's sort of odd, yeah?现在,关于如何清理的书, 这有点奇怪,是吗?
0:19But what if a new approach to cleaning但是,如果一个新的方法 清洁
0:21could teach us a better approach to treating mental health?能教我们更好的治疗精神疾病的方法吗?
0:25I'm not an interior designer or a lifestyle influencer.我不是室内设计师 也不是影响生活方式的人
0:29I'm just a therapist with ADHD.我只是个ADHD的治疗师
0:31And in February of 2020, I had my second baby.2020年2月,我生了第二个孩子
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1Shortly after I published my book, I got an email.我出版书后不久就收到一封邮件
2It said,它说,
3your book was the only thing that saved me from suicide.你的书是唯一能让我免于自杀的
4You saved my life.你救了我的命 你救了我的命 你救了我的命
5Now, for a book about how to clean, that's sort of odd, yeah?现在,关于如何清理的书, 这有点奇怪,是吗?
6But what if a new approach to cleaning但是,如果一个新的方法 清洁
7could teach us a better approach to treating mental health?能教我们更好的治疗精神疾病的方法吗?
8I'm not an interior designer or a lifestyle influencer.我不是室内设计师 也不是影响生活方式的人
9I'm just a therapist with ADHD.我只是个ADHD的治疗师
10And in February of 2020, I had my second baby.2020年2月,我生了第二个孩子
11Because with the first one, I had some postpartum anxiety,因为第一个, 我有一些产后焦虑,
12and my husband had just taken a very demanding job我丈夫刚刚做了一份非常苛刻的工作
13that was going to keep him busy,那会让他很忙的
14I developed a meticulous postpartum plan for myself.我为自己精心制定了产后计划
15My family would rotate in in shifts for the first 60 days.我的家人在头60天里会轮班
16The cleaning crew would come once a month,清洁工每月来一次
17the new moms group would drop off dinners,新妈妈组会送饭
18and my toddler would go to preschool.我的小孩会上学前班
19I was so proud of this plan,我为这个计划感到骄傲
20and it ended before it even began,却还没开始就结束了
21because 2020 is when the COVID lockdowns happened,因为2020年是COVID封锁发生的时候,
22and all of that support disappeared overnight.所有的支持 一夜之间消失了。
23In a blur, my days turned into breastfeeding difficulties,在一个模糊的,我的日子变成 哺乳困难,
24toddler meltdowns and depression.幼儿期的崩溃和抑郁症。
25The dishes stayed in the sink for days,盘子在水槽里呆了好几天
26the laundry pile reached impressive heights,衣服堆积到了令人印象深刻的高度,
27and there was often not a path to walk from room to room.而且往往没有一条从房间走到房间的道路。
28And when I should have been catching up on sleep,当我在睡觉时
29I would lay in bed at night and think to myself,我晚上躺在床上,想着自己
30I'm failing.我失败了
31Maybe I'm not capable of being a good mom to two kids.也许我无法成为两个孩子的好妈妈
32I decided to post a joke video on TikTok one day我决定有一天在TikTok上发布一个笑话视频
33about my house-turned-disaster.关于我的房子倒塌的灾难。
34Some funny shots of my clutter and my dishes一些滑稽的镜头,我的毛线和盘子
35and my enchilada pan to a nice beat.和我的Enchilada锅 一个很好的节拍。
36Sort of a laugh-to-keep-from-cry situation, surely.那种笑对保持 从哭的情况,当然。
37And I got a comment.我得到了一个评论。
38懒zy.
39Yeah, that stung.是啊,那个刺。
40But I must be a glutton for punishment但我一定是个要惩罚的混蛋
41because I kept posting videos about my messy house.因为我一直张贴 关于我的烂房子的视频。
42Video after video of all of the weird tips and tricks that I was using我用的所有诡异的技巧和技巧
43to try and get it back in order试着把它找回来
44while managing my feelings of being overwhelmed.处理我被压抑的感觉
45And I braced myself for more criticism.我为更多的批评而坚守
46But what happened was entirely different.但所发生的事情完全不同。
47In the comment sections of my videos,在我的视频的评论部分,
48hundreds of stories came rolling in.成百上千的故事卷进来了
49Stories like Amanda,像阿曼达这样的故事
50who after losing her baby in the second trimester,在三个月后失去孩子后
51was standing frozen at her sink站在她的水槽里冻僵了
52because she forgot how to wash dishes.因为她忘了怎么洗碗
53Stories like Lula,卢拉这样的故事
54whose chronic health problems and depression长期健康问题和抑郁症
55made it difficult for her to brush her teeth.让她很难刷牙
56Story after story of people with depression, ADHD, autism, burnout, bereavement,关于抑郁症、ADHD、自闭症、烧焦症、丧偶症
57all struggling with these daily tasks.这些日常任务都很难完成
58And it might seem odd to some of you你们有些人可能觉得奇怪
59that someone could struggle with tasks that are so simple.有人会为了简单的任务而挣扎
60But are they simple?但是它们很简单吗?
61Let's think about what really goes into something like laundry.让我们想想 真正进入的东西 像洗衣。
62Everyone picture your laundry pile right now, OK?每个人都想象你的洗衣堆,现在,好吗?
63How many clean clothes do you have left right now?你现在还剩下多少件干净的衣服?
64Can you wash tomorrow or must it be today?明天洗还是今天洗?
65Do you need to prioritize, pre-sort, pre-treat anything?你需要优先排序, 预处理,预处理什么?
66Did you grow up with anybody that taught you how to do that?你和谁一起长大 教你怎么做?
67You're out of laundry detergent.洗涤剂没了
68If you work three jobs, when are you going to get to the store next?如果你做三个工作, 你什么时候去店里?
69So if you get there, can you afford it?所以,如果你到了那里,你能负担得起吗?
70And if you can afford it, which one you choose?如果你能买得起,你选哪个?
71And you get it all home, get it in there, now pick a setting.你得到它所有的家,得到它在那里, 现在选择一个环境。
72Which one?哪一个?
73I don't know.师曰.
74Google it.谷歌读取.
75By the way, you have memory problems.对了,你有记忆问题
76So you'll remember that wash in about three days所以你会记得三天后洗的
77when it's mildewed into the washer.当它被温和化成洗衣机。
78It's OK.没事的
79Just re-wash it, OK, and get it into the dryer.再洗一下,把它放进烘干机里
80You'll forget that, too, and it'll wrinkle.你也会忘记的,它会皱纹。
81Now dry it again.现在又擦干它。
82Now all you have to do is get it out and fold it.现在,你要做的就是把它弄出来并折叠起来。
83But also you have three small children.还有三个小孩
84And those three small children haven't given you a moment alone那三个小孩没有给你独处的时间
85in quite some time,过了一段时间
86but when you finally get that moment, you have to decide,但当你终于得到那一刻, 你必须决定,
87are you going to finish the laundry, are you going to eat a sandwich,你要洗完衣服,吃三明治吗?
88are you going to take a nap?你要睡个觉吗?
89Time's up.时间到了。
90You didn't do any of it.你什么都没做
91You stared at the wall.你盯着墙看
92You have decision fatigue,你有决定疲劳症
93because the burden of carrying a home all by yourself has burnt you out.因为一个人背着一个房子 把你烧焦了
94You see, for some of you, all of the steps and the skills你看,对于你们中的一些人来说,所有的步骤和技能
95that go into care tasks run on autopilot.进入护理任务 运行在自动驾驶。
96But for millions of people, the autopilot is broken.但对于数百万人来说,自动驾驶器已经坏了.
97And what's worse, what if you had to do all of that when your mom just died?更糟糕的是,如果你不得不做这一切 当你妈妈刚刚去世?
98Or your job just fired you?还是你的工作刚刚开除了你?
99Or you're using every ounce of strength that you have或者你用你拥有的每一盎司的力量
100to just not kill yourself today?今天不自杀吗?
101If you have access to therapy,如果你能得到治疗,
102it's unlikely your therapist will ever ask you about your laundry.你的治疗师不可能问起你的衣服
103I've worked in mental health for about a decade.我在心理健康领域工作了十几年
104I've been in therapy even longer.我接受治疗的时间更长了
105And the only time I ever had a provider talk to me about things我唯一一次有供货商跟我谈事情
106like cooking and cleaning and brushing my teeth像烹饪、清洁、刷牙
107was when I was in a psych hospital as a teenager.我少年时在精神病院里
108Yet here were hundreds of thousands of people in my comment sections但这里有几十万人 在我的评论部分
109telling me that these daily care tasks were a major pain point in their life.告诉我这些日常护理任务 是他们生活中的一大痛苦点
110And so I started to wonder,所以我开始怀疑,
111what if we started here?如果我们从这里开始呢?
112What if we started with these care tasks?如果我们开始这些护理任务呢?
113Could making daily tasks easier improve mental health quicker?能否使日常任务更容易改善心理健康?
114In the two years that I've been posting and writing在我张贴和写作的两年里
115about the intersection of mental health and care tasks,关于精神健康和护理任务的交叉点,
116I've come up with a philosophy that does just this.我已经想出了一个哲学 这样做。
117And it all starts with one simple idea.这一切都从一个简单的想法开始。
118Cooking, cleaning, laundry,烹饪 清洁 洗衣
119it doesn't make you a good person or a bad person.它不会让你成为一个好人或坏人。
120Listen to me.听我说
121Care tasks are morally neutral.护理任务在道德上是中立的。
122Now, I know that if you've been watching Martha Stewart for decades现在,我知道,如果你一直 看着玛莎·斯图尔特几十年
123and scrolling the perfect Pinterest aesthetic every day,每天滚动完美的美学,
124that it can feel like struggling with these tasks is a moral failure,感觉在努力完成这些任务 是道德上的失败,
125like it's because we're lazy or we're irresponsible or we're immature.就像是因为我们懒惰,或者我们不负责任,或者我们不成熟.
126But having an organized closet doesn't make you a success.但有一个有条理的衣柜并不能让你成功
127And living out of a pile of laundry on the floor doesn't make you a failure.住在地板上的一堆洗衣房里并不代表你失败
128You know where the shirt you want to wear is,你知道你想穿的衬衫在哪吗?
129it just might take you a bit of sifting to find it.可能要花点时间才能找到它
130The truth is, it's not about morality.事实是,这不是道德问题。
131It's about functionality.这是关于功能。
132Does your home work for you,你的家为你工作吗?
133not some hypothetical house guest that is coming to inspect your closet?不是来检查衣柜的假想客吗?
134I mentioned Amanda, who had lost her baby and forgot how to wash dishes.我提到阿曼达 她失去了孩子 忘了洗碗
135She told me that when her husband would go to work,她告诉我当她丈夫去上班时
136she would lay on the floor next to the empty crib and say to herself,她躺在空的婴儿床旁边 对自己说
137what can I bring to my family if I can't even wash dishes?如果我连洗碗都洗不干净 我能带什么给家人?
138But that changed when she began to see care tasks as morally neutral.但当她开始认为护理任务在道德上中立时,情况就变了。
139All of a sudden, the dishes in the sink weren't representations突然间,水槽里的盘子不是代表
140of her failure as a wife.作为妻子的失败
141But instead, she would look at the pile但相反,她会看着那堆东西
142and think to herself, what do I need to function tomorrow morning?想想,我明天早上需要什么工作?
143And then pull two coffee cups out of the pile to wash.然后把两个咖啡杯从堆里抽出来洗.
144She had her coffee the next morning,她第二天早上喝过咖啡
145and it was a little bit easier to get up off the floor.从地板上爬起来容易一点
146When we liberate ourselves from the idea当我们从思想中解放出来
147that we are a good person or a bad person with care tasks,我们是好人 或坏人 有照顾任务,
148we can stop thinking about the right way to do things,我们可以停止思考 正确的方式做事情,
149about the way that things should be done,关于事情的方式,
150and instead start thinking about what we can do with our current barriers而不是开始思考我们能做什么 与我们的当前障碍
151to improve our quality of life today.改善我们今天的生活质量。
152And this is the fun part,这是有趣的部分,
153because you get to customize a life that works for you.因为你可以定制一种适合你的生活
154When Lula realized that her problems with brushing her teeth当露拉意识到她刷牙的问题
155were not moral failings,并不是道德败坏,
156she gained the confidence to speak to her dental hygienist.她得到了信心 与她的牙科保健师说话。
157And together, they came up with solutions that work around her barriers.他们一起找到了解决她的障碍的方法。
158She now relies on pre-pasted disposable toothbrushes她现在靠的是 预先刷好的一次性牙刷
159that she keeps in her desk,她留在她的办公桌,
160floss she keeps in the living room在客厅里放花
161and a no-rinse prescription toothpaste,和一粒不冲洗的牙膏,
162because by breaking down the component parts of a dental hygiene routine因为通过破解 牙科卫生程序的组成部分
163and ensuring that each step was accessible to her mental and physical needs,确保每一步骤都能满足她的身心需要,
164for the first time in a year,一年来第一次,
165she's done every step in that routine for two weeks straight.她在这个常规中的每一步都做了两周
166She says that now that her teeth are clean,她说现在她的牙齿干净了
167she's a little less stressed about tomorrow's problems.她对明天的问题没有那么紧张
168And this approach can work with any care tasks that you struggle with.这种方法可以帮助你完成任何你努力完成的护理任务。
169Simply ask yourself, what am I trying to achieve问问你自己 我到底想达到什么目的
170and how can I achieve it in my way?我怎么能以我的方式实现呢?
171In a rare moment of folding clothes,在难得的折叠衣服时刻,
172I looked down at the baby onesie that I was folding,我俯视着正在折叠的婴儿裤,
173and I thought to myself,我对自己想,
174why am I folding this?我为什么要折这个?
175Baby onesies don't really wrinkle.宝宝的不皱纹。
176And even if they did, nobody cares if a baby's in a wrinkly onesie.即使他们这么做了 没人会在乎孩子是不是在发抖
177Furthermore, I was probably going to change her four times before lunch.而且,我可能 要改变她四次 在午餐前。
178This doesn't need to be folded.这不需要折叠。
179I said it out loud and literally braced myself我大声地说, 字面上站稳了自己
180for the laundry police?为洗衣警察?
181I don't know.师曰.
182There are rules to laundry.洗衣服有规矩
183But for the first time,但是,这是第一次,
184I stopped thinking about the way that laundry should be done,我不再想该怎么洗衣服
185and instead started thinking about how I could make laundry functional for me.转而开始思考 我如何使洗衣机功能。
186And I looked down at the fleece pajamas and the underwear我低头看那套睡衣和内衣
187and the athletic shorts and the tank tops运动短裤和坦克顶
188and realized almost none of my clothes actually needed to be folded.发现我的衣服几乎都不用折叠
189And I haven't folded any of it since.之后我再也没有折叠过
190I moved all of my family's clothes我把家里的衣服都搬走了
191into one closet off the laundry room,进入一个衣柜 从洗衣房,
192and now I just toss things into organized bins unfolded.现在我把东西扔到有条理的垃圾箱里
193My new motto is, good enough is perfect,我的新座右铭是 足够完美
194and everything worth doing is worth doing half-assed.而一切值得做的事 都值得做半个屁股。
195You have to give yourself permission to do a little,你得允许自己做点什么
196to do it with shortcuts,用捷径做它,
197to do it while breaking all of the rules,在打破所有规则的同时
198and replace that inner voice that says,并替换那个内心的声音 说,
199I'm failing,我失败了
200with one that says, I'm having a hard time right now.一个说, 我现在有一个困难的时间。
201And people who are having a hard time deserve compassion.生活艰难的人应该得到同情。
202If it's too hard to shower today,如果今天洗澡太难
203grab the baby wipes.抓住婴儿的擦拭。
204It may not be the normal way to do it,这也许不是正常的方式
205but you deserve to be clean.但你应该干净一点
206If it's too hard to cook dinner,如果做饭太难
207get paper plates.去拿纸牌
208Heat up something frozen.热起来的东西冻结。
209You'll go back to cooking and washing another day,你会回去做饭 洗一天,
210but the day is not today.但今天不是这个日子
211And in the meantime, you deserve to eat.同时,你应该吃东西
212If you're too depressed to do your dishes,如果你太沮丧 做你的菜,
213get a two-gallon Ziploc bag and keep it in your bedroom,拿个两加仑的西普洛克包 放在卧室里
214because if you put a dirty plate into a two-gallon Ziploc bag and seal it,因为如果你把一个肮脏的盘子 在一个两加仑的Ziploc包并封起来,
215it will keep the bugs away,它可以让虫子远离,
216and it'll be there for you when you're ready to go back to the kitchen.等你准备好回厨房的时候 它会给你的
217Because you deserve a sanitary environment,因为你应该有一个卫生的环境,
218even if you can't get out of bed.即使你无法下床。
219I could share with you hundreds of other genius solutions我可以和你们分享数百种其他的天才解决方案
220that people have come up with人们想出了
221once they embrace the idea that care tasks are morally neutral.一旦他们接受护理任务在道德上中立的观点。
222In my experience, people will exhibit mind-blowing creativity依我的经验,人们会展现出令人振奋的创造力
223when they are only taught how to speak compassionately to themselves.他们只被教诲说:你们自受其益。
224So what if mental health treatment started here?如果心理健康治疗从这里开始怎么办?
225By shifting the idea of care tasks通过改变照顾任务的想法
226as these external measurements of your worthiness作为这些外部测量你的功用
227to just being morally neutral tasks仅仅是在道德上中立的任务
228that you can customize to care for yourself.你可以定制 照顾自己。
229Because if it's true因为如果是真的
230that regardless of what you struggle with,无论你与什么斗争,
231you are worthy of a functional space,你值得一个功能空间,
232what else might you be worthy of?你还值什么?
233Thank you.谢谢
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