Hoarding

Thesis: Hoarding is seen as unhygienic and repulsive, but it is simply a disorder due to either genetics or as a coping mechanism to trauma. While it has been linked to other problems, researchers are still trying to find better treatments for the destructive habit causing emotional, physical, and legal effects.

Hoarding is not currently considered an illness on its own right. Compulsive hoarding has been treated as symptom or subtype of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (Cluttergone).

Many individuals are accustomed to waste at least a portion of what they buy, whether it is food, clothes, furniture, supplies, or materials worldwide. According to the article: “On Dumpster Diving” many valuable items were found by the homeless who searched the dumpster for food. Surprisingly, they found useful items that helped them survive throughout each day. In fact, the products were worth for the exchange of money. At certain times, I myself may be considered to be a wasteful person during certain times such as, not finishing my drink and throwing more than half of it away. While rushing at work during break, this is a usual situation for many people Although, it isn't necessarily on purpose it is considered wasteful, valuable and influence advertising.

The presenter himself described how some people could be obsessive-compulsive about certain aspects of their life, like organizing their day using a planner, but they probably don’t have the disorder.

Whether people some people have a hoarding compulsion or simply collect too much stuff in a land of much abundance, we at RestorePros Remediation can help lift the burden from off your shoulders. Perhaps, you know of someone that just has trouble getting and keeping things organized. If you do, then just call us, and help will be dispatched to your side quickly.

A picture of hoarding disorder is created through personal interaction and the diagnosis is supported by the DSM V.

OCD or Obsessive Compulsive Disorder is the unwanted recurrent thoughts, actions, or impulses and repetitive behaviors and actions that a person feels driven to perform (Obsessive Compulsive Anonymous World Services, 1999). People suffering from OCD perform a variation of strange rituals everyday uncontrollably. There are different types of compulsive behavior people with OCD display. For example, hoarders fear that something bad will happen if they throw anything away or give anything away. They compulsively hoard things that they don not need or use. These victims of OCD can become obsessed with not only performing actions, but with keeping objects and possessions.

Anyone who suffers from a hoarding disorder knows the debilitating feeling that comes from living in a cluttered environment. Hoarding can result in physical, mental, social, emotional, and financial burdens. Each of these intense feelings can aggravate one another, causing a vicious cycle of events, which can eventually ruin a person’s life.

I. Hoarding is a disorder that causes someone to feel the need to keep everything that may come into his or her possession. A. Hoarding is the difficulty one may face when letting go of certain objects and possessions, regardless of their true significance (Neziroglu). 1. Hoarders tend to compulsively buy and collect items when a majority of the time the item has no apparent value to the person (Neziroglu). a. Once a hoarder begins to obtain a maximum amount of items, they are unable to store their belongings properly, which eventually leads to a disorganized and clustered home (Frost).

The authors purpose of "Let It Go" was to provide more knowledge of the subject matter and how it has developed into another matter, that could be much greater than it was attended to be taken as. The article gave any examples of "Hoarding" from very extreme cases, like the brothers who died due to hoarding, to the simple ordinary case like the mother and daughter with just two rooms with stuff, but highly clean about it. The main purpose was to bring the reader into mind that could this situation be more than it was announced to be, or could it be something greater, for an example a illness, disease, or mental condition that could lead to addiction. The author use various of strategies to give us a look into the main idea of this passage.

Hoarding has gained increased attention in recent years due to recent media television shows depicting the circumstances hoarders may live in. It can be difficult to determine when a person crosses from a simple over collecting behavior into a hoarding behavior. “Hoarding is a debilitating disorder characterized by the acquisition of a large volume of possessions that clutter living areas to such a degree that living spaces cannot be used of their intended purpose (Frost, Kim, Steketee, 2011).” Many people who tend to have hoarding behaviors are unaware of the severity of their actions and feel they are living in normal conditions. As Frank et al. (2014) states, “it is general agreed that when a person’s collecting affects his or her environment in such a way that causes danger to him or herself or others, intervention is necessary.” Although there is much research on adults with hoarding behaviors, there is limited research on the effects of hoarding among the elderly population. Hoarding behaviors among elderly adults can be seen as a danger to one’s health over time has it can harm their physical health, safety and overall well-being.

B. Compulsive hoarding could be a subtype of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), which is defined as an anxiety disorder characterized by unreasonable thoughts and fears (obsessions) that lead to repetitive behaviors (compulsions).

Because there was none, she became the first person to conduct a study on hoarding disorder. The study provided the first hoarding picture and also established that hoarding can run in families. A few years after this research began; two Smith students published the first theoretical account of hoarding that outlines the three dimensions of hoarding: clutter, excessive acquisitions, and difficulty discarding. Continued research about hoarding includes genetics, phenomenology, epidemiology, neuroimaging, and also how hoarding is shown in children and elders. Several Smith College students since 1993 have co- authored scientific papers on hoarding. In 2013, in Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders or DSM for short, hoarding became an official mental disorder. It was considered a mental health disorder before but only a subtype of OCD. Now, because of the abundance of research that has been done and the studies that show people who display hoarding disorder had no other symptoms of OCD; hoarding has accumulated its own section in DSM.

They diagnose the compulsive hoarding syndrome according to three criterions. First, the accumulation of useless possessions and failure to discard them can be a sign of the disorder. Compulsive hoarders have an obsessive need to accumulate and save many objects, and also have a tremendous anxiety about throwing them away. This is because of a supposed need for the objects and their value or an unnecessary emotional attachment to them. If they have any doubt at all about the value of an object, compulsive hoarders will keep it, “just in case” (www.rd.com).

Compulsive Hoarding disorder: “Hoarding disorder is characterized by the persistent difficulty to discard or part with possessions, regardless of the value others may attribute to these possessions and is associated with significant functional impairment and distress. This is in reference to hoarding of items in the absence of pets (American Psychiatric Association, 2013 & Park,