And compulsive behaviors come in many forms, all of which can become debilitating or even dangerous. Common activities that can develop into compulsions include shopping, hoarding, eating ...

Some people can’t bring themselves to throw things away. Despite the items being useless, they are kept because of the “what ...

A report published earlier this year by the US Senate Special Committee on Aging is calling for a national coordinated response to what the authors claim may be an emerging hoarding disorder (HD ...

Clutter can also cause embarrassment, leading individuals to withdraw socially, and in extreme cases, escalate into clinical ...

Co-author. The Oxford Handbook of Hoarding and Acquiring, with Gail Steketee. Oxford University Press, 2013. Co-author. Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, with Gail Steketee.

According to the Mental Health Association, hoarding affects 15 percent of New Jersey's 9 million residents. Compulsive hoarding is a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. "Usually it's going to ...

There are a variety of conditions that have obsessive compulsive disorder qualities that are quite similar to OCD such as PANDAS, body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), hoarding disorder, trichotillomania, ...

Compulsive hoarding is estimated to affect around 1.2 million people across the UK A charity which helps people to manage hoarding behaviours has received extra funding to expand its services to ...

This research, outlined in a paper published in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, studied the benefits of this technology for people with compulsive hoarding disorder. It is estimated that 2.5% ...

And compulsive behaviors come in many forms, all of which can become debilitating or even dangerous. Common activities that can develop into compulsions include shopping, hoarding, eating ...