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“It was easier to live with the mess than to experience the frustration of failing to create a perfect room.”
― Randy O. Frost, Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

“As has been apparent to us from studying hoarding, we may own the things in our homes, but they own us as well.”
― Randy O. Frost, Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

“Deficits in executive functions such as planning, categorization, organization, and attention leave them lost amid a sea of things, unable to figure out what to do next.”
― Randy O. Frost, Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

“Recent studies of hoarding put the prevalence rate at somewhere between 2 and 5 percent of the population. That means that six million to fifteen million Americans suffer from hoarding that causes them distress or interferes with their ability to live.”
― Randy O. Frost, Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things