Hoarding

**Hoarding **


 * Hoarding is considered a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This kind of behavior is called "pathological collecting," it involves saving and keeping many objects that can be useless,has no value or may have great sentimental value. **
 * ====**Hoarders have a difficult time in deciding how to organize objects that they keep which then leads to unorganized pile of objects lying eveywhere. **====
 * ====**Hoarders hoard stuff because they suffer from aniexty and depression and struggle with social dysfuntion. **====

Special Problems: Most hoarders are single in addition hoarders seem to have close relatives that are described as "pack rats." Hoarding is more common in males than females. Hoarders have abnormal grooming behaviors such as skin picking, nail biting, trichotillomania (compulsive hair pulling). Researchers say that hoarding is not actually a form of OCD but rather a syndrome that is part of the OC spectrum of disorders.

Treatment:

Hoarders do not recognize they are impaired. Hoarders have little insight to their dangerous nature of hoarding. Some of them think that hoarding is beneficial and the right way to live.
 * Find a therapist with experience on treating hoarding problems.
 * Find a local hoarding task force/ support group.
 * ====Overall try to maintain a positive and healthy relationship with a loved one who has a hoarding problem.====

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**Works Cited**: ("Compulsive Hoarding".Brain Physics.2011.14 April 2011..) (Frost, Randy "Stuff" New York;Houghton Mifflin 2010.Print.)