New cat owner - stressed and feeling like losing my mind.

I just adopted her for a week, actually. The very first day, it was okay. But then she started with peeing and pooping everywhere and I started to freak out. She started going in my bedroom and peeing right next to my bed, and then she jumps on my bed, tracking urine all over my bed. I washed everything off, and lock the bedroom. So she is free to roam in the living room and bathroom.

But then she started to pee everywhere in the living room, multiple times a day despite my efforts of changing litter, training her, putting her in the litter box after meals etc.

So since last week, I’ve been feeling crappy all the time. I had a few breakdowns, feeling ‘trapped’. It’s not helping that every time I wake up there’s pee and poop on the floor. I just feel ‘unclean’, generally. Like I will start smelling everything in the house, even my body, because I was obsessed that everything smells like pee even though I already cleaned them with enzyme cleaner and vinegar. I have had anxiety for a while but it never blows out of proportion like this.

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