by Janet Yeats | Jun 30, 2020 | Hoarding Cleanup, Janet Yeats
There are some things we know about biological causes, and some that we’re still learning about, and who knows what we don’t know yet! There has been some initial research on the brain, so let’s start there. We know that the brains of people who hoard are different...
by Janet Yeats | Jun 25, 2020 | Biohazard cleaning company, Biohazard crime scene clean up, Hoarding Cleanup, Janet Yeats, Odors, Scene Clean Resources
This final blog post will give you some direction on what to do about a hoarded home. There isn’t one answer for every situation. Let’s start with a personal hoarding situation. What to do when you discover a loved one is hoarding? Hopefully, you already have figured...
by Janet Yeats | Jun 23, 2020 | Biohazard cleaning company, Biohazard crime scene clean up, Hoarding Cleanup, Janet Yeats, Scene Clean Resources, Scene Decon
I’m going to talk about three kinds of professionals who work with hoarding disorder. They each have a different specialty, and when they work together, the person who hoards (and their family members) get the benefit of a collaborative, team approach to addressing...
by Janet Yeats | Jun 15, 2020 | Biohazard cleaning company, Hoarding Cleanup, Janet Yeats, Scene Clean Resources, Scene Decon
With this post, I’m going to take a break from talking about the hoarding of things and talk about hoarding animals. Animal hoarding is similar to object hoarding in a few ways, and it is quite different in other ways. Let’s talk about the similarities first. The...
by Janet Yeats | Jun 12, 2020 | Biohazard cleaning company, Biohazard crime scene clean up, Hoarding Cleanup, Janet Yeats, Scene Decon
This is a great question and the answers I get from people are usually wrong. It’s ok – we just have a lot to learn as a society about hoarding. Which reminds me, hoarding is a disorder that is an issue for a lot of countries – pretty much all developed countries have...
by Janet Yeats | Jun 7, 2020 | Hoarding Cleanup, Janet Yeats, Scene Clean Resources, Scene Decon
The “why” question is the big one. This is going to be a three-post answer. And even at that, we won’t know all the reasons why people hoard. There’s so much we don’t know about hoarding disorder, so much research that needs to be done in so many directions including...