Clutter, collecting, disorder, and squalor may confuse public perception, and that’s quite likely given the terms overlap. Although each of them does have a core meaning that is distinctly different. We’ll do our best to unravel the confusion, although the popular mind … [Read more...]
Helping a Person With Hoarding Disorder
Helping a person with hoarding disorder is not an easy task. It can actually be quite stressful, and sometimes we wonder whether it is worth the bother. If you find yourself in this situation, then we wrote this post to help you take a fresh look at what is going … [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...]
Diagnosing, Assessing and Treating Hoarding Disorder
Ask the average doctor and they will tell you chances are slim a patient will arrive and say ‘hey doc I think I have hoarding disorder’. That because hoarding is not a problem for people who hoard. Therefore treating hoarding disorder often begins with someone … [Read more...]
Compulsive Hoarding Disorder – A General Overview of a Deep Topic
Compulsive hoarding disorder is a lifestyle characterised by accumulating an abnormally large number of things of little value. These are kept in a chaotic manner, as opposed to in a tidy collection. When Compulsive Hoarding Disorder Needs Attention However this only … [Read more...]
