Have you ever heard of hoarding? My mother is a hoarder. She has 500 pairs of shoes!
Yes I have, sometimes people have an attachment to something they don't need. She may think she'll need each pair for something.
I guess so. I think maybe it is some kind of anxiety disorder.
Anxiety can be caused by environmental factors. Maybe the hoarding causes anxiety and it creates a vicious circle.
Maybe so. I wonder if some kind of medication or therapy might help.
It is worth looking into, it can be a health risk to compusively hoard.
Yes, first it is shoes, next it could be something else. Have you ever seen the show Hoarders on tv? It's scary.
cooking, cleaning, moving through the house, and sleeping. It can also put the individual and others at risk of fires, falling, poor sanitation, and other health concerns. Compulsive hoarders may be aware of their irrational behavior, but the emotional attachment to the hoarded objects far exceeds the motive to discard the items.
Researchers have only recently begun to study hoarding, and it was first defined as a mental disorder in the 5th edition of the DSM in 2013. It was not clear whether compulsive hoarding is a
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