The last cause we’ll look at are psychological reasons why people hoard. There’s a lot here so I’m going to divide this cause into two parts. This is the cause closest to my heart because it allows us to look at the impact of trauma and loss on hoarding behaviors....
The most common question we receive whether its by email or phone calls is how much does it cost to cleanup a home that is hoarded? The answer to that question is not as simple as how many bedroom and bathrooms are...
In a perfect world, if I had my way, hoarding would be addressed before it became a safety concern. People who hoard would work through their relational traumas and losses, there would be no stigma in our culture preventing people who hoard from getting help, mental...
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...
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...