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USEFUL LINKS CONCERNING HOARDING.........

  • Kylie Healey's Clutter Cutters.
    Kylie Healey's Clutter Management Guide.
  • Levels of depression, anxiety and disability in OCD hoarding and nonhoarding patients by Lauren Williams.
  • Hoarding to Excess."When the Stuff You Keep, Keeps You From Living.: Step into 37-year-old Diane's house and you cannot be sure of what you will step on. A single well-worn, packed-down path is the only safe way through the litter-strewn house she shares with her two children. (ABCNEWS)."
  • Hoarding. Dr. Randy Frost Discusses This Quiet Obsession. Dr. Randy Frost, professor of psychology at Smith College, runs an anxiety-disorder clinic at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has written extensively on the topic of compulsive hoarding and, together with Gail Steketee, he's developing a treatment manual for the disorder. Frost joined us for a live chat.
  • "The Infinite Mind: Hoarding and Clutter.When does enough become too much? And why is it so hard for compulsive savers to know the difference? This show looks at hoarding, which involves the accumulation and inability to throw away unneeded possessions, to the point that a home may become so filled with stuff that..."
  • Clutter Busters.Deconstructing our acquisitive human nature.: by Bill Strubbe.
  • Hoarding Fact Sheet. This Fact Sheet is Published through the Courtesy of the Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, Older Adults Services Division.
  • CHAOS AND CLUTTER: When Hoarding Becomes a Community Concern.By Roberta L. Wertenberg.
    Often, it is that quiet house on the block with the shades always closed. Neighbors in the community may refer to the individual living there as a “loner, “pack rat,” or “collector.” In reality, that person may be a hoarder.
  • Despite my need to keep things large and small, I'm no hoarder.By Rowland Nethaway / Cox News Service 05-05-01.
    WACO, Texas -- Yesterday I watched two men dismantle and haul off my full-sized pool table.
    It was a nice pool table. I'll miss it. But it took up a lot of room. The home gym that I'll put in its place will be more practical.
  • Hoarding is Dangerous.hese people aren't your typical packrats. They actually have an illness. Some value an old empty paper cup just as much as they value a family heirloom. Of course, they end up with so much stuff, it's literally closing in on them. Beth Parker has the story in this FOX 5 special report.





HOARDING BY THE ELDERLY.........

Many Elderly people face Hoarding and often this problem is shifted towards the then grown- up children who don't know how to deal with this situation. Here are some articles about Hoarding with Elderly.
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