Compulsive Hoarding Disorder

Wikipedia provides one definition of compulsive hoarding as "the excessive acquisition of possessions and the failure to use or get rid of them", and goes on to state that at its most severe form could "cause fires, unclean conditions, injuries from tripping on clutter and other health and safety hazards".

Hoarding Resources

AARP Hoarding Article
This article brings up the fact that "not enough is known about the disease to determine whether it's an addiction or a compulsion".

Animal Hoarding Symptoms
The symptoms, causes, treatments, expert advice, lifestyle tips, mis diagnosis and other resources and information.

Cluttergone
A diagnosis of compulsive hoarding, treatment, support, and other information.

Facts About Obsessive Compulsive Hoarding Disorder
"Research has shown that people with Compulsive Hoarding Disorder have differences in brain activity from other people".

Harmless Pack Rat or Compulsive Hoarder?
Three questions to help you decide if you've crossed the line into hoarding, and how treatment can help you de-clutter.

Hartford Hospital
"Compulsive hoarding, which may affect up to 2 million people in the United States, is often found in patients with other diseases, including dementia, Alzheimer's, schizophrenia and anorexia".

Hoarding: A Dangerous Secret
A Report from the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments that identifies what hoarding and animal hoarding is, how it impacts neighborhoods and government agencies, plus possible actions to be taken when compulsive hoarding is located.

Hoarding Statistics by Country
This extrapolation calculation is automated and does not take into account any genetic, cultural, environmental, social, racial or other differences across the various countries and regions for which the extrapolated Obsessive-compulsive disorder statistics below refer to.

Intervention Tips
When hoarding interventions becomes necessary and involves an older adult or senior citizen this list of what to do and what NOT to do can be a valuable help.

Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic lists the symptoms for the compulsive hoarding of possessions and the hoarding of animals, plus has resources for the causes, risk factors, treatments and drugs, prevention, and other hoarding information.

MedicineNet
"Many psychologists believe that hoarding is a subtype of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), while others argue that it may be a variant of attention deficit disorder (ADD)"

Pet Hoarders
The difference between a cat rescue program and a pet hoarder and what to do if you know a pet hoarder.

Science Daily
Science Daily states that compulsive hoarding is a psychiatric condition.

Sign On San Diego
Two different types of hoarders are high lighted in this article, plus some of the medications that may help compulsive hoarders.

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