Hoarding can seem confusing and frustrating to armchair observers, who may not understand what it’s like to be a compulsive hoarder. Friends or family members may walk into a cluttered home and wonder, why don’t they just throw this stuff away? For a person living … [Read more...]
Are There Cures for Compulsive Hoarding?
Today we mull over the endless question, are there cures for compulsive hoarding? The short answer is that while there is no quick cure, real improvements and recovery do happen. Many hoarders learn to manage their behaviour, and maintain safer, calmer homes. This … [Read more...]
Is My Teenager Becoming a Compulsive Hoarder?
Teenagers naturally push boundaries, as they develop their own identity and move towards independence. They also value their privacy, and resist tidying their rooms ‘just because’. Their parents may wonder, is my teenager becoming a compulsive hoarder, or just being … [Read more...]
Concise History of Compulsive Hoarding
A concise history of compulsive hoarding confirms how natural it is to accumulate reserves for a rainy day. Many creatures including squirrels and moles do so too, so why not humans? There is ample evidence of the rich and famous acquiring conspicuous wealth down the … [Read more...]
The Psychology of Hoarding Syndrome
It is a perfectly natural thing to become attached to possessions, on account of their practical, aesthetic, or financial value. People with hoarding syndrome become overwhelmed by their behaviour. But there is more to hoarding than simply gathering too many things. … [Read more...]
Help to Understand a Hoarding Person
Perhaps you clicked on this link because you need help to understand a hoarding person. Maybe you were just keen to learn more about this curious way of life. In a nutshell, hoarders have a different set of drivers. They can’t change these. The best we can usually do is … [Read more...]
Hoarding Disorder Affects Families Too
Hoarding disorder is a persistent difficultly discarding possessions, because the person believes they are worth keeping. The condition can affect the person’s lifestyle to the extent they live in unhygienic, even unsafe conditions. However, hoarding disorder affects … [Read more...]
Hoarding Choices Include Fashionable Goods
Hoarding is more than collecting old newspapers and rags, for some future use that often never comes. Our modern, more wealthy society allows some of us to hoard valuable works of art, rare cars, and yes, more hoarding choices including fashionable goods too. We explore … [Read more...]
Hoarding, Causes, Symptoms and Treatments
Some customers new to hoarding call us and say something like “okay just clear the space, make the problem go away”. Nothing will probably be further from the truth. Hoarding causes, symptoms and treatment are all intertwined. In a sense, the one feeds off the other and … [Read more...]
How Covid Caused Long Hoarding
The coronavirus disease leaves a long shadow of discomfort behind some of us, as the loneliness lingers Professional Social Work Magazine (PSA) asks if Covid caused long hoarding, after we no longer needed emergency supplies. We investigate the evidence for this, and … [Read more...]
