If you are worried someone you know is developing, or has hoarding syndrome then this post is for you. What we provide here is only for information, and is not medical advice. You may however use this knowledge to help decide whether you need to consult a medical … [Read more...]
A Controversial Hoarding Statement from San Diego
University of California School of Medicine runs a comprehensive obsessive-compulsive disorders program. It singles out Hoarding Disorder as being excessive accumulation of clutter that renders living spaces uninhabitable. This phenomenon can affect the health and … [Read more...]
Hoarding in the Context of Seasonal Shortages
There’s evidence people may impulsively hoard more than they need, if they fear it may not be available at least for a while in future. This is different from compulsive hoarding where the objects may have no intrinsic value. However the dynamics are the similar and … [Read more...]
Dementia and Hoarding We Explore Sporadic Links
We should be careful not to assume a direct link between these two conditions. That’s because we know of people with the one, but not the other. None the less there are interesting things to learn where both are present. We provide this information in the general … [Read more...]
Did You Know Compulsive Hoarding Unfolds in Five Stages?
Compulsive hoarders are different because they save items many others think are ‘useless’. However, value is in the eye of the beholder, and they have great difficulty getting rid of their beloved ‘collections’ These accumulations grow as a result of this reticence. … [Read more...]
Compulsive Hoarding and Buying-Shopping Disorder: Some Common Ground
Psychologists, mathematicians and statisticians in Australia have investigated the factors behind object choice, and object attachment. They published their work in early January 2020 and so this is hot of the press. They wanted to know the extent that priming … [Read more...]
If You Think You Are a Hoarder Check These Signs
We sometimes wonder whether we have a medical condition after watching a television program about it. That’s a possibility with hoarding disorder, given that over three million British people have it to some extent. We have been receiving regular enquiries since the … [Read more...]
Hoarding Disorder & The Things You Need to Know
We post regularly about hoarding disorder as it relates to our house and garden clearance service. Our clients sometimes find the state of their relatives’ houses distressing, after they pass away or move into care. If only we had known, they often say. Perhaps we … [Read more...]
Unusual Angle on Hoarding May Shed Fresh Light
Hoarding seems embedded in the English psyche if for no reason that the habit is so persistent. Scientists have been re-visiting Anglo-Saxon hoards in England, and wondering why they dumped such valuable things. Artefacts found in the Tattershall hoard in … [Read more...]
How Do I Know I Have a Hoarder on My Hands?
Some hoarding situations are pretty obvious. Social services have to break a window to get in because of stuff piled up against the doors inside. Chaos reigns as they battle to reach the room where an elderly person lies bedridden. The neighbours gather in the street … [Read more...]
