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Clutter Addiction. Clutter Addiction, or cluttering, is a compulsive behavior that involves living with an overwhelming and unmanageable environment that negatively affects one’s mental and emotional wellbeing.

Clutter Addiction

While not a distinct condition recognized medically in psychiatry, Clutter Addiction has become widely recognized and there are recovery self-help groups similar to Alcoholics Anonymous that specifically address cluttering. Cluttering involves many of the symptoms, behaviors and dynamics found in disorders which are medically recognized addictions, however. While cluttering is not included in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, it is widely recognized as a condition that affects both men and women in all socioeconomic classes and is commonly dealt with in psychotherapy and community support groups as are mental health disorders that also involve compulsive behaviors. Obsessive clutter supply. Excessive clutter keeper. Visual Research Methods: A Novel Approach To Understanding The Experiences of Compulsive Hoarders: A Preliminary Study. Abstract | Full Text Objective: Compulsive hoarding is a syndrome characterised by excessive collecting and saving behaviour that results in cluttered living space and significant distress or impairment.

Visual Research Methods: A Novel Approach To Understanding The Experiences of Compulsive Hoarders: A Preliminary Study

Old Dominion University - obsessive clutter supply. Obsessive-Compulsive Hoarding: A Cognitive-Behavioural Approach - 01ODU - Old Dominion University. Anxiety and Depression Association of America, ADAA. I’ve always had trouble throwing things away.

Anxiety and Depression Association of America, ADAA

Magazines, newspapers, old clothes… What if I need them one day? I don’t want to risk throwing something out that might be valuable. The large piles of stuff in our house keep growing so it’s difficult to move around and sit or eat together as a family. My husband is upset and embarrassed, and we get into horrible fights. I’m scared when he threatens to leave me. This example is typical of someone who suffers from hoarding. Understanding Hoarding Hoarding is the persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of their actual value. For those who hoard, the quantity of their collected items sets them apart from other people. Find out about animal hoarding. MF2990. Search Results. 10 Things You Should Know About Compulsive Hoarding. Many people might claim that, at least at one point in their lives, they could be classified as a “pack rat” or a “closet clutterer.”

10 Things You Should Know About Compulsive Hoarding

However, compulsive hoarding is an anxiety disorder that involves much more than keeping extra papers and magazines around, or collecting CDs under your desk. Severe compulsive hoarding can interfere with a person’s activities–such as cooking, cleaning, showering, and sleeping–because piles of newspapers or clothes are found in the sink, in the shower, on the bed, and in every corner of a home. There is more awareness of the issue today, due in part to the two reality TV series: “Hoarders” and “Hoarding: Buried Alive.” However, there is still so much more educating that needs to be done regarding this issue.

Here, then, are ten things you should know about hoarding. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. Photo credit: Wikipedia Related Articles. Hoarding images. Animal Hoarding. Relationships among compulsive hoarding, trauma, and attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Stuttering and Cluttering: Frameworks for Understanding and Treatment - David Ward - Google Books. The study of being an adult daughter of a hoarding mother: A qualitative description. Obsessive clutter supply. Excessive clutter keeper. Excessive clutter keeper. Obsessive clutter supply. Old Dominion University - compulsive storing disorder. Compulsive storing disorder. Compulsive storing disorder. Compulsive storing disorder. Brain Scans of Hoarders Reveal Why They Never De-Clutter - Scientific American Blog Network.

Image courtesy of iStockphoto/AbackPhotography Jill, a 60-year-old woman in Milwaukee, has overcome extreme poverty.

Brain Scans of Hoarders Reveal Why They Never De-Clutter - Scientific American Blog Network

So, now that she has enough money to put food in the fridge, she fills it. She also fills her freezer, her cupboard and every other corner of her home. "I use duct tape to close the freezer door sometimes when I've got too many things in there," she told A&E's Hoarders. Film footage of her kitchen shows a cat scrambling over a rotten grapefruit; her counters—and most surfaces in her home—seemed to be covered with several inches of clutter and spoiled food. Jill joins many others who have been outed on reality TV as a "hoarder. " Hoarding disorder is categorized as "the excessive acquisition of and inability to discard objects, resulting in debilitating clutter," wrote the researchers behind the new study, led by Yale University School of Medicine's David Tolin.

Some people hoard particular types of things, such as newspapers, craft supplies or clothing. Compulsive Hoarding of Clothes. Hoarding Hoarders Buried Alive. Hoarders Before and After. Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things - Gail Steketee, Randy Frost - Google Books. Accumulation paper.

The Secret Lives of Hoarders: True Stories of Tackling Extreme Clutter - Matt Paxton, Phaedra Hise - Google Books.