Hoarding disorder is characterized by an ongoing resistance to discarding one’s belongings, even those with no value, like junk mail, old newspapers, and materials that most people would consider to ...

Hoarding disorder affects around 1 in 50 (2%) of the population but remains a largely misunderstood mental health condition, said the authors of new guidance, published in the British Journal of ...

Jessica Grisham has received funding from the International Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Foundation. Keong Yap receives funding from the International Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Foundation.

Hoarding disorder is a serious mental illness that worsens with age. Not everyone with hoarding disorder describes the same pathway to overwhelming clutter - some report more cognitive difficulties ...

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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 ...

People who accumulate garbage and unnecessary furniture and create a garbage house, and ' digital hoarding ' where unnecessary data cannot be easily thrown away, are called ' compulsive hoarding ' in ...