Some of the treatment options for compulsive hoarding are therapy, medication, support groups, and help from a professional organizer. Everyone likes having stuff in their home, and many people are ...

Behind closed doors across the country, millions of individuals are quietly overwhelmed by something most of us take for granted: our relationship with things we bring into our homes. The ...

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BALTIMORE — The table at Jack Samuels’ office, in Baltimore’s Fells Point, is piled two feet high with books, papers, scientific journals and grant applications. Samuels’ wife likes to tease him that ...

Dear Amy: My spouse (D) and I have been happily married (second marriages) for 25 years. We have adult children and grandchildren and are a very happy family. D is a paper hoarder. It accumulates in ...

Hoarding, a condition often sensationalized in the media and misunderstood by the public, is a complex psychological disorder that affects millions of individuals worldwide. Characterized by the ...

Early Signs and Causes of Hoarding Hoarding rarely begins overnight. For many, early warning signs show up in adolescence and gradually intensify over time. What might start as a simple hesitation to ...

For the past decade, psychologists Randy Frost and Gail Steketee have studied hoarders: people who compulsively acquire a lot of stuff, and then have difficulty discarding the objects they obtain. In ...