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Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding: Why You Save and How You Can Stop
Although the much-satirized image of a house overflowing with National Geographics and infested with cats may make us chuckle, the reality of compulsive hoarding is no laughing matter. The most common reason for evictions in the US and a significant risk factor for fatal house fires, compulsive hoarding is a treatable condition related to obsessive-compulsive disorder. It ...more
Paperback, 160 pages
Published
July 15th 2004
by New Harbinger Publications
(first published July 2004)
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This is one of three books I got from the library to better understand and learn how to respond to a relative that hoards. The book is short and clearly written yet packed with tons of observations and information that were very useful. Most of my "ah ha!" moments while reading and skimming through the book had to do with me and my cluttering tendencies and the personality characteristics that go with it. This book also contains a concise section on cognitive therapy and how to use ...more
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Very clinical, but does a good job of showing that there are shades of gray when it comes to OCD, OCPD, and hoarding. The 3-and-a-half box technique looks interesting, though it doesn't really provide enough guidance about how things fit into each of the boxes. A reader could just put everything in the "Save" box and be no better off. I feel that the authors did do as much as they could to motivate the reader to start decluttering, though they emphasize throughout the book that the rea...more
Had some very practical suggestions on how to tackle the problem. One thing that stood out to me was that no matter how much you might want to do the process for someone else, it needs to be their decision in order to be effective.
I liked what I read here and I think it would be very helpful for someone who is aware that hoarding is a problem for them. I do not know if it would work for someone who is in denial of the issue though.
Short book written for the person who hoards and who wants to change their own behavior. Not sure if this will actually work, but good information for me as a professional organizer.
This is an amazing guide to overcoming an extremely bad habit. If you have hoarding issues, then this'll be the last thing you buy on impulse.
this addresses some of the psychological and precognitive triggers for hoarding in a compassionate but straightforward way.
Why do we all have so much stuff? The answer is here!
helpful book, though the hoarders are an aunt and an uncle and i wonder if they have bigger problems right now, believe it or not, so i am going to bide my time and wait until my cousins end up dealing with the mess.
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