Hoarding

Hoarding disorder is a severe mental health condition that creates a persistent difficulty in discarding or parting with possessions, leading to intense clutter that interferes with daily life. Both for those suffering from hoarding disorder and for those who wish to help a friend or loved one suffering from it, it’s crucial to understand the...

Beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but as someone experienced with hoarding disorder, you know things aren’t that simple. Hoarding is compulsively collecting objects or animals without regard to beauty or any clear purpose. Hoarding is a disabling mental health condition recognized by the American Psychiatric Association, classified with autism spectrum disorder...

Imagine newly hatched baby birds in the nest. The parents worked hard to prepare a safe space, then spent all their waking hours protecting, feeding, cleaning, and training their precious young. But how would it have been if the nestlings lived with a hoarder parent? This article is for you, whether you’re fourteen or forty, to explain how to deal with a hoarder parent.

Is your husband a little messy or is there a trail of junk every time you go from one room to the other? While cleanliness knows no gender, it helps to know that hoarding is a serious matter that must be handled with care. If you’re still wondering which category your hubby falls into, here...

When someone encounters a home where clutter has accumulated beyond what is reasonable, the immediate assumption is someone in the home has ADHD and or hoarding disorder. In more cases than not, that would be an appropriate assumption. That raises the question, “Are these two mental disorders one and the same?” The answer is yes...

It’s common for people to assume that hoarding disorder and autism come from the same tree of mental/emotional/developmental disorders. However, that’s not really the case. The mistake that a lot of people make is to look at the obsessive behaviors that are common to both disorders and then assume that the root causes of those...

Some psychological disorders are very difficult for the average individual to understand. If someone isn’t being victimized by one of these disorders, it’s hard for them to understand how certain disorders lead to certain behaviors like hoarding. The act of hoarding is sometimes troubling to witness. It begs a couple of questions, why would anyone...

Recognizing how distressing it must be to see a loved one or even yourself dealing with a hoarding disorder, we thought it might serve as a source of relief if you had some understanding about what causes hoarding. In that spirit, the following information will address some of the personal conditions that can serve as causes of hoarding.

Many people have never heard of animal hoarding, and that’s understandable. It is also unfortunate because many dogs, cats, and other animals die or suffer every day due to this pernicious, and growing, social problem. If you are among the millions of people who have never heard of animal hoarding, consider the following facts in...

Have you heard of hoarding disorder? Maybe you know it under another name or have a general idea that it’s not psychologically healthy to amass huge amounts of personal belongings for no apparent reason. Many of us have known someone in the past who likely had a hoarding problem. Perhaps they packed several rooms of...