Hoarding is a serious mental illness that affects 2 to 5% of the population. — -- intro:You're buying things a second time because you lost the first ones you purchased. You can't fit your car in ...

Hoarding behavior has been observed in individuals with schizophrenia for more than a century. Despite this longstanding recognition, there has been a paucity of research exploring the motivations and ...

trekandshoot / Getty Images A dozen people seated around folding tables clap heartily for a beaming woman: She’s donated two 13-gallon garbage bags full of clothes to a Presbyterian church, including ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - People who have a compulsive urge to collect and clutter their homes with junk can partly attribute their problem to genes, a new study confirms. In a twin study, ...

A report published earlier this year by the US Senate Special Committee on Aging is calling for a national coordinated response to what the authors claim may be an emerging hoarding disorder (HD) ...

HOARDING DISORDER IS A PROBLEM EVERYWHERE. REALLY. IT’S A SOMETIMES HIDDEN PROBLEM HOARDING THE AMOUNT OF ISOLATION THAT’S THAT’S PREVALENT AMONG PEOPLE WITH SELF-ISOLATION, BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE ...

Behind closed doors across the country, millions of individuals are quietly overwhelmed by something most of us take for granted: our relationship with things we bring into our homes. The ...

Eva Williams, wife of Fight the Blight founder Matt Williams, works to clean the basement of someone with hoarding disorder. The homeowner decided to clear out their home in Youngwood, Pennsylvania, ...