on A&E the opening line says that three million people are compulsive hoarders. This attention grabber is a great way to intrigue the viewer and inform them of this real problem of hoarding and show them how it affects the lives of two hoarders. Hoarding is a huge issue that affects not only the people hoarding‚ but the families and people that surround the hoarders. The T.V. show takes us through a brief background of the two hoarders featured in the episode‚ Vula from Indiana‚ and Lisa from
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herself as she tells three characteristics of hoarding; what hoarding is‚ why hoarders are so attached to their things‚ and the impact it can have on their lives. There are two important decisions we have to make: what do I keep and what do I throw out? Schutza tells how the inability to throw out‚ due to the emotional attachment‚ is extremely hard for hoarders (Schutza 254). Dr. Randy O. Frost and his colleague RC Gross supports her as he defines hoarding as the acquisition of and failure to discard
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Compulsive Hoarding is a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to acquire and keep things‚ even if the items are worthless‚ hazardous‚ or unsanitary. This is the story of Augustine a 68 year old woman from Gretna‚ Louisiana. In the past two decades‚ Augustine has paid more than $30‚000 for city mandated cleanups. Augustine’s home is in violation of city code and her gamily fears the house will be condemned and she will have no place to go. According to hoarders expert‚ Augustine’s house
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However‚ it was agreed that hoarding was a subtype of OCD‚ yet there was no scientific research conducted. So‚ an honors student conducted the very first research project related to hoarding. In this project‚ ads were placed in local newspapers to seek out people who considered themselves to be chronic savers. After the ads were released‚ over 100 people admitted to being packrats. While the research continued‚ many observations were made. First‚ hoarding was associated with the saving of
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Compulsive Hoarding – Making A Concerted Effort Towards Therapy Hoarding: What Causes Hoarding? Compulsive hoarding starts with collecting one‚ then another and then yet another item in our daily lives that keeps building up into a pile. Doing away with them‚ causes any amount of stress in a person who perceives giving away things as a threat. Although it is not associated with any other neurological disorder like Obsessive Compulsive Disorder‚ or Depression or any other mental disease or brain
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The Little Mermaid and her Connection with Hoarding Melissa Legault Abnormal Psychology Anthony Smith April 30‚ 2013 Most children grow up watching Disney movies. It might be shocking to hear that a Disney princess may suffer from a psychological disorder. In Walt Disney’s movie The Little Mermaid‚ I think the main character Ariel suffers from disposophbia‚ also known as hoarding. Obsessive-compulsive disorder/hoarding has always interested me. These people take collecting to an
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Hoarding is defined as the acquirement of‚ and inability to discard worthless items even though they appear to have no value. Hoarding behaviors can occur in a variety of psychiatric disorders and in the normal population‚ but are most commonly found in people with obsessive-compulsive disorder. Those people who report compulsive hoarding as their primary type of OCD‚ who experience significant distress or functional impairment from their hoarding‚ and who also have symptoms of indecisiveness‚ procrastination
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Hoarding According to the Mayo Clinic hoarding also known as compulsive hoarding syndrome is the excessive collection of items‚ living or un-living‚ along with the inability to discard them. There are many symptoms of hoarding; the main being the inability to throw away items. Other symptoms include cluttered living space‚ keeping stacks of newspapers‚ magazines or junk mail‚ acquiring unneeded or seemingly useless items such as trash‚ and difficulty organizing items or managing daily activities
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Speech 101 10/22/2010 Informative Speech The Symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder General Purpose: To inform Specific Purpose: After hearing my speech‚ my audience will know more about the symptoms of Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder. Thesis: Obsessive-Compulsive Personality Disorder is a disorder which involves an obsession with perfection‚ rules‚ and organization‚ which leads to routines and rules for ways of doing things. Organization Pattern: Topical Introduction
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Outline for Informative Speech Compulsive Hoarding Specific Purpose: At the end of my speech my audience will know about compulsive hoarding. I will inform them what hoarding is‚ the signs and symptoms and as well as treatments for hoarding. Introduction 1. Compulsive Hoarding is considered to be a clinical syndrome reported to affect approximately 3 million Americans across the United States. We believe however‚ that these statistics are highly underrepresented due to the difficulty
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