The Neighbor....

whatdidyousay! said:
Sadly my neighbor was running out of space , she could no longer walk into her two bedrooms and had to sleep in the kitchen and I guess the trunk of her car
was packed too b/c her was hoarding junk in the back seat of her car. She didn't have a phone so I guess her niece came to see how she was doing and found
out bad it had gotten.
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Did she ever get professional help for this?

Fuzzy
 
I like Loveblue's explaination. I suppose half or better of us are guilty of that. Nothing wrong with it.
 
Cappy said:
I like Loveblue's explaination. I suppose half or better of us are guilty of that. Nothing wrong with it.
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Love Blue indeed attached great example of general definition what is a "hoarding",
which generally means to accumulate large amounts of whatever for whatever reason.
For example, gathering and keeping dry foods or canned foods in large quantities indefinitely in case of disaster
could be characterized as 'hoarding'.
A hamster is a typical animal food hoarder, or a squirrel :)

indeed a lot of people do some type of hoarding, but the abnormal amounts some people do like the lady OP writes about
is not the same type of innocent hoarding - but is a mental disorder type of hoarding. that is a difference.

Fuzzy
 
When you have long hash winters like we do in New England you have to stock on canned goods , the stores will run out of food and have no way of getting any
deliveries during a snow blizzard . This isn't hoarding it called be prepared for a power outages for up 5 days at a time when you have a family with kids.
The only thing I seem to be hoarding is getting more white hair . I have more each year .
 
Yes I'm sure most of us know and understand that stocking up the cupboards for winter is NOT hoarding.
(wasting my breath there but oh well)

With hoarding, some people just buy excess amounts with no place to put them. Some people buy the food as normal but the packaging gets thrown on the floor (once the trash can is overflowing), banana peels get tossed somewhere in the room (I found one in the love seat...eesh). In some cases I think some people just....give up, in others it's an issue of not wanting to let go or "gotta have it!" or "I'm just a collector" (I remember seeing one show that had tons of either cars or lawn mowers in the back yard..).
 
I do think people just give up, too - like DeafDucky wrote. I know someone about whom we think this happened. When people managed to get in there after he'd died, they found knee or waist-high piles of stuff everywhere, including food and dishes from various meals sitting out everywhere, and things all dusty, garbage spilling all over, furnace wasn't working and hadn't been for several months <including during the winter>
 
I don't think we can really understand of a how a hoarder mind works unless we have the same medical problem .
 
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