12
May
Hoarding: When Too Much 'Stuff' Causes Grief (NPR)
“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 their book Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things, the two researchers detail how compulsive behaviors drive sufferers to pile objects throughout their homes. Illustrating the phenomenon through several case studies, Frost and Steketee identify the key traits that identify a hoarder, detailing the underlying causes and explaining how to minimize the effects of the emotionally exhausting disorder…”
This is extremely fascinating to me.
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This is extremely fascinating
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woman’s contamination mindset.
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I have always really admired you & your homes. You know this. I am currently rearranging my apartment — a very foreign...
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*sheepish* Yeah, hoarder here :(
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