I am selling my house [first time selling a house].
I am re-settling my untreated unmedicated bipolar brother to his first place by himself in 4 years.
I have three daughters, one who has a compound speech delay and dyspraxia and one who has mild autism and possibly will also have childhood onset bipolar disorder.
My husband has a pretty severe case of dyspraxia himself, which makes it difficult for him to effectively communicate.
I am suffering from a pretty bad bout of OCD symptoms right now and I'm not sleeping.
Managing all of these conditions with therapies and routines and systems is making my OCD symptoms worse.
Managing every single stinking part of repairs, organizing, purging, planning, and updates to get my house ready to sell is very much making me worse.
How am I going to 1] Find a place to rent before our house is like not ours anymore. 2] Make all the decisions about all the things. Hundreds and hundreds of things. Thousands? It might be thousands. 3] Continue everything I need to do to keep everyone from going over the edge. and THEN. Then 4] Actually get us over there and the thousands of things that go with that!!!!?
It feels impossible to just get through this first step: getting the house ready to sell. I can only hope that once it's on the market and we start getting offers that I will feel calmer. I can take a break for a few months after we move into our rental [it will be near my parents so I will have more help at hand with the kids, and my brother will hopefully be more cooperative and stable and therefore helpful once he's not living in our house]. I can afford, likely, until Xmas to relax.
I feel like I have done so much planning and purging already, that I'll just have to compile some paperwork and pile up some cash, then I can apply for my visa once this covid thing has settled down? I did a LOT of that work already. I've done planning, budgeting, and preparations. I will be able to relax once our house has sold. For a minute.
I don't know how anyone does this.
I just keep looking at houses on Rightmove and remembering we want this. We want to give the children the opportunity to live in their other culture. To be safer from guns and to have healthcare. We love the Rain! And my husband deserves to get to live in HIS home for a while. Eyes on the prize.
Any words of encouragement are welcome and appreciated.