Hoarding Disorder
Hoarding Disorder
Kandy Lind
Independence Community College
How Learning about Hoarding Helps
The most current issue that is going on for me is hoarding. In the small town I live in that’s what people intend to do. In my own words and research I will explain why here everyone chooses to do it. Throughout the rest of my paper you will see that the information collected by psychologists and researchers to see how hoarders came to be and how they should get treated.
Symptoms and behavior
In this small town everyone seems to think that buying and collecting possessions is just how they were raised. In truth I started looking around and seeing how people acted when something was missing or needed to be thrown away, and they put up their guard in a hurry. . I started talking to a couple of my neighbors about what they thought hoarding was. It turns out that all of them said hoarding is when you can’t walk into their homes without trying to maneuver through objects and everything is trash. Most said it is like the television show that comes on. When I asked what about here in this town would you consider that some are a hoarder? One responded no that’s just in this town’s nature to collect objects because years ago we did have a grocery store and a school and now we don’t. Truth is a lot of us just want to keep as much resources as we can. Another said yes there are a few people that have symptoms of a hoarder. We need to clean up this town and bring back resources to make this town better. Some symptoms show fast like severe anxiety when not wanting anyone to wanting to throw away an object, not wanting people to touch possessions, the worse of them all needing to keep items that they might need in the future. David Tolin. Ph.D.(2014) said that some behavior that occurs with this disorder may include pulling objects out of the trash, storing as much possessions anywhere even if it is not in their home, and finally choosing to stay at home so no one can enter the
Kandy Lind
Independence Community College
How Learning about Hoarding Helps
The most current issue that is going on for me is hoarding. In the small town I live in that’s what people intend to do. In my own words and research I will explain why here everyone chooses to do it. Throughout the rest of my paper you will see that the information collected by psychologists and researchers to see how hoarders came to be and how they should get treated.
Symptoms and behavior
In this small town everyone seems to think that buying and collecting possessions is just how they were raised. In truth I started looking around and seeing how people acted when something was missing or needed to be thrown away, and they put up their guard in a hurry. . I started talking to a couple of my neighbors about what they thought hoarding was. It turns out that all of them said hoarding is when you can’t walk into their homes without trying to maneuver through objects and everything is trash. Most said it is like the television show that comes on. When I asked what about here in this town would you consider that some are a hoarder? One responded no that’s just in this town’s nature to collect objects because years ago we did have a grocery store and a school and now we don’t. Truth is a lot of us just want to keep as much resources as we can. Another said yes there are a few people that have symptoms of a hoarder. We need to clean up this town and bring back resources to make this town better. Some symptoms show fast like severe anxiety when not wanting anyone to wanting to throw away an object, not wanting people to touch possessions, the worse of them all needing to keep items that they might need in the future. David Tolin. Ph.D.(2014) said that some behavior that occurs with this disorder may include pulling objects out of the trash, storing as much possessions anywhere even if it is not in their home, and finally choosing to stay at home so no one can enter the
References: Eric Metcalf (2014) Hoarding: More Than Just a Mess Retreived from http://www.webmd.com Theresa J. Borchard (2011) Compulsive Hoarding Retrieved from http://www.psychcentral.com