About hoarding ...

We probably all have too much stuff. Most of us have cluttered closets and drawers. A recent survey by Hammonds Furniture revealed that 25% of us have been forced to stop using at least one room because it is too full of stuff!

But for about 2% of people the problem is much worse. They are busy filling their homes with everything from rusty bicycles to rotten food. They block doorways and hallways; they fill sinks and bathtubs with junk; they bury sofas and beds beneath piles of old clothes or newspapers. They are often characterised as lazy or dirty people, but in truth their behaviour is evidence of a psychiatric condition called compulsive hoarding or hoarding disorder.

The Collyer Brothers
Cleanup Slideshow - www.hoardhouse.com
Collyer Brothers - www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Collyer_brothers

Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Ewing_Bouvier_Beale

Edmund Trebus
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Trebus

Richard Wallace
www.tinyurl.com/35lqa52

Compulsive Hoarding - www.compulsivehoarding.org

Children of Hoarders - www.childrenofhoarders.com

Hoarding: When Too Much 'Stuff' Causes Grief - http://tinyurl.com/3yweyun