What’s Causing the Rise of Hoarding Disorder?
Rise of Hoarding The rise of hoarding is something we need to find the cause of because it is a growing issue. Certainly TV doesn’t need to do much to sensationalise hoarding. Like rubberneckers at a traffic accident, we gaze in horror at “goat paths” hacked between mounds of newspapers, greasy pizza cartons, bills, cheques, […]
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Why it pays to organise and declutter your digital life
Digital Hoarding Our digital lives are increasing and expanding day by day. I’m sure we all have an email account with a few thousand emails and pictures on our phones totalling similar numbers. With the storage capacity of our devices increasing with every upgrade and cloud storage plans costing peanuts, it might not seem like […]
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Self Storage – The people with more stuff than they have room for
The rise of self storage Self storage has soared in popularity recently as people are cramming more stuff into smaller places. As the prices for housing soars it is becoming increasingly difficult to get decent living space. For some people the solution is self storage. While it’s not convenient, self storage offers a place for […]
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How ADHD can link to hoarding and tips for living with hoarding
ADD & ADHD Research shows that while many people who are compulsive hoarders have attention deficit disorder (ADHD or ADD), the reverse is not true. People with ADD are not typically hoarders. Nor are they on some kind of disorganisation spectrum that ends up in the mental disorder called hoarding. What gives rise to problematic clutter […]
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I’m a hoarder and I’m glad that it has been classified as a mental health disorder
Hoarding classified The World Health Organisation, WHO, has recently announced that hoarding has been classified as a mental disorder. This has had particular impact for one woman, Laura Horton, who is glad that hoarding has finally been given this classification. Now that hoarding has been officially classified by the WHO, the NHS describes hoarding as: […]
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The problem of pet hoarding and how it affects people
Pet Hoarding Pet hoarding is a growing problem within the hoarding community and it’s one that isn’t well known. As hoarding has recently been classified as a mental health disorder, up 1.2 million UK homes have been affected. Although hoarding can be more commonly associated to older people, this is not always the case. Hoarding […]
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A hoarding success story – how Stephanie Evans turned her home around
A success story Success stories in hoarding are not as common as we would like them to be. Too often we hear about the negatives of hoarding, and the bad consequences that can sometimes occur as a result. But today is different. Today we get to celebrate the success of Stephanie Evans who managed to […]
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‘Buried in Treasures’ program cleans up hoarded homes
Treasures from birth The eldest child of parents who lived through the Great Depression, Rhonda absorbed values of thrift — along with habits that inevitably led to her stockpiling a pirate’s bounty of clutter, including buttons, zippers, old clothes, scraps of fabric, catalogs, greeting cards, college papers and anything that could be repaired or re-used. […]
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At 76 years old, she is overcoming a long history of hoarding
A growing problem Candace, 76, lives alone in the house she designed 50 years ago. Gradually, enthusiastically, and sometimes uncontrollably, she accumulated bargains discovered at thrift stores. They were mostly inexpensive clothes too good to pass up, and presents she thought would be perfect for people in her life. But she seldom got around to […]
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When possessions are poor substitutes for people: Hoarding & Loneliness
Loving Possessions Children’s possessions are very important during the early stages of life. They allow children to feel a sense of comfort when their parents aren’t nearby. For most people as they get older they have less reliance on these possessions. Rather than relying on possessions for comfort they tend to have a smaller collection […]
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