Hording Disorder

Potential risk factors that may lead to hoarding is age, personality, family history, stressful life events, social isolation. People with OCD or have been in stressful of traumatic events are sometimes prone to hoarding.

Daily Life

If you had opened the front door of Lee Sheer's apartment in the early 2000s, you would have encountered a narrow hallway made even narrower by all kinds of random stuff: unnervingly tall stacks of books and papers, cardboard boxes full of assorted knickknacks, and two hot pink salon hair dryer chairs with glass domes

Definition

Hoarding disorder is a persistent difficulty discarding or parading with possessions.

Video

www.tlc.com/tv-shows/hoarding-buried-alive/

Prevention/ therapy

You can make immediate decisions about mail and newspapers, think twice about what you allow in your home, set aside about 15 minutes to clutter, throw away anything you have not used in a year, follow the OHIO rule (Only Handle It Once. If you pick something up, make a decision then and there about it, and either put it where it belongs or discard it.) and to ask for help if you cannot do it on your own.

Facts and myths

statistics!

Myth-Removing clutter and property will remove the issue of hoarding.

Fact-Large scale clean-ups without the client’s permission do not work – it is likely to have a long term negative impact on the client’s mental health

Myth-Hoarding only takes place in certain types of property.

Fact-Hoarding can be found in all property types and for all types of places

Myth-People with hoarding issues can’t see all the stuff and dirt, they don’t mind it

Fact-They can see it but they need to mentally block it out

Myth-There is nothing we can do about it

Fact-With the proper support help and guidance hoarding problems can be resolved

75% of hoarders engage in excessive buying. 50% of hoarders excessively require free items, 15% of the hoarders realized their hoarding is irrational. 2-6% of the population gets hoarding disorder and 80-90% of hoarders have a problem with accusations and make a lot of accusations.

Symptoms.

• Some warning signs/symptoms of hoarding are: parts of your home become unusable. no organization to the clutter. the hoarding items hold no value, you have a lot of pets, your home is becoming unsanitary.

risk factors

Fun Facts

Hoarding Disorder

#1: Hoarders fill up any space they’re given, #2: As of 2013, hoarding is its own disorder, #3: Over one-third of hoarders also have ADHD, #4: Hoarding runs in families, #5: Hoarders don’t all hoard for the same reasons, #6, Hoarders often have an exquisite sense for color and shape and #7: Hoarders develop “clutter blindness.