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Hoarding is defined as, “The excessive collection of items, along with the inability to discard them.” Hoarding is a lot more than a bunch of words bunched together in a definition though. It is a psychological disorder that can have a huge affect on people and their lives. Since it is found in 2%-5% of the general population, it isn’t a disorder that should be taken at all lightly (psycchiatrictimes.com). Hoarding is often a symptom of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), but there is often people who hoard but don’t have symptoms related to OCD (mayoclinic.org). It is something that people can’t control or keep themselves from doing. They see a need to save random items that they think that they might need in the future or that they think might have some sort of value. Everything starts to stockpile up, and before the people know it, there whole living or working space will be cluttered with junk that disrupts their abilities to do anything (psychiatry.org). The bad think about hoarders is that they don’t even see a problem with what they do, so it makes treatment a lot more difficult (mayoclinic.org). Compulsive hoarding, as it is also called, is a big issue for quite a few reasons. There is also more than one kind of hoarding. There are also symptoms of the disorder, causes of the disorder, and risk factors created by the disorder. Even with all of the negatives hoarding has, it still has its treatments.

Hoarding disorder is an issue or problem for quite a few different reasons. The people with the disorder collect way too many things than they know what they can do with. They find a need to keep everything that they collect, making it extremely hard for them to get rid of anything unneeded they might have. People with hoardi...

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...an see, hoarding is a lot more than some simple definition. It has many different aspects that need to be taken into consideration. There are certain problems, causes, and risk factors that come along with hoarding. There are also symptoms that help people know when somebody may have a hoarding disorder. If a person seeks the right treatment though, it is possible to get rid of the disorder, but treatment can’t always be counted on for being successful. I found it really interesting to learn all of these different things about hoarding because before I never really looked beyond the definition, and I didn’t even really understand that it was a disorder. I thought it was something that some people just liked to do, and I didn’t realize that they didn’t have any control over what they do. I am glad that I got to study hoarding to better understand what it really is.