We share secrets about hoarding you may not know yet. Your search is a deep one, for it touches on psychology and neuroscience in ways few people understand. So please relax while we share six unusual and really interesting insights about hoarding, which go beyond … [Read more...]
Helping Compulsive Hoarders in England
Compulsive hoarders in England have persistent difficulty getting rid of personal possessions. They need to hang on to what they have, and feel distress at the thought of discarding things. As a result, their homes may become so cluttered that they can hardly live in … [Read more...]
Symptoms and Causes of Hoarding Disorder
Symptoms of hoarding disorder typically include resistance to clearing, or disposing of accumulated possessions. The causes are usually a conviction to save this personal property for some future use. This article addresses the symptoms and causes of hoarding disorder, … [Read more...]
Impact of Hoarding on Minor Children
The impact of hoarding on minor children can be long lasting. Yet surprisingly, we don’t find much about it on popular media. We decided to investigate this topic as our theme for this week, and were fortunate to find some solid research. The work in question, by … [Read more...]
Clearing Hoarded Houses With Respect
Clearing hoarded houses with respect, means we should empower the resident to make their own decisions wherever possible. Furthermore, we believe we should only intrude into hoarders’ homes to the extent necessary, to ensure their health, safety, and general … [Read more...]
The Plain Truth About Hoarding Disorder
The plain truth about hoarding disorder, is it is not something we choose. Life thrusts it upon us for a variety of reasons. Once we get the disorder, it is with us for life. The best we can do is find a way to live with it. There is a bit of a hoarder in every one … [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...]
Fly Tipping in London: Why Here of All Places?
London has certainly had its ups and downs over the years, what with three major attempts at invasion in history, two of which succeeded. And then of course there was also a great plague that took an even greater fire to quench. But why do we still have fly tipping in … [Read more...]
Fly Tipping in Kent Accounts for 27.8% of South East
I can’t for the life of me explain how Kent became fly tipping capital of the south east of England. When I was a lad, I remember my father driving the family down from London to the Straits of Dover, and the wonderful holidays we had. I refuse to believe fly tipping in … [Read more...]
Tween and Teenage Hoarders Is This an Excuse?
If your teen or tween has an untidy bedroom, this may be a phase through which they are going. Characteristic signs include chairs piled high with clothes they never put away, and a floor that’s hard to navigate past possessions. We consider tween and teenage hoarders … [Read more...]
