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 House Clearance Costs and Extras
A hoarding house is a work in progress, as opposed to the hoarded homes some senior citizens leave behind. Both types accumulate a surprising amount of clutter as the years pass by. It may we unwise to summarily do a hoarding house clearance, though. That’s because … [Read more...]
What is Memory Hoarding in OCD?
Obsessive compulsive behaviour, AKA OCD is a condition whereby unreasonable thoughts, by average standards and fears, lead to repetitive, compulsive actions. The drivers are often fear for germs, or a need to arrange objects in a specific pattern. However, in this … [Read more...]
Crossing the Line to Animal Hoarding
Many of us have come across heart-wrenching articles about animal mistreatment since the pandemic struck England. And tragic too, since many involved well-meaning owners who somehow went off the rails. Today we discuss the phenomenon of crossing the line to animal … [Read more...]
4 Famous Hoarders in History
The words we choose make a great difference to people's impressions who hear them. Great wars have ensued to settle subtle differences in religion. There is little evidence of hoarding per se in history until quite recently. But it existed, and to prove it we review … [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...]
Hoarding and Reclaiming Hoarders Lives
Compulsive hoarding is an ongoing inability to throw away things, or part with possessions according to Mayo Clinic. A person with this condition clings to them because they believe they may be useful in future. However, unlike collecting, the items may be of little, … [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...]
How Does Compulsive Hoarding Begin?
Clients often ask us how does compulsive hoarding begin. Did my aged relative fall into it after their partner died, they ask, or is it something that happens with aging? We found an interesting post at Very Well Family we decided to share. Because hoarding, believe or … [Read more...]