Five Signs you are a Hoarder

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Five Signs You are a Hoarder

We are all fond of collecting whether it is a hobby of stamp collection or coin albums or even maintaining stacks of new shoes; collecting is a normal way of functioning for all of us. However, if you have the following five signs, then your habit of collecting is much more than a way of life.

It is a full-fledged disorder and is known as Hoarding.

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Cannot Bid Adieu to your Items Hoarders cannot make a solid decision on parting with their items. This is to a point if those are items are never used, broken or totally unnecessary. Nevertheless, they feel the urge to retain it, leading to piles of such goods. When unnecessary, hoarders cannot decide how to organise these items and store them away. Sometimes, the hoarder thinks that s/he will make the parting decision at a future date. The piles keep on building up into hillocks of goods which impedes daily functioning.

Living Areas Become Inhabitable For a hoarder, a dining room filled with stacks of appliances lying around and the table being strewn with cutlery, journals and food trash might seem like a totally fine “habitable” area. But for a non-hoarder, this situation is extremely distractive and depressing. The dining room, which is meant for eating meals, doesn’t serve its primary function. It becomes a sort of giant four-walled box of meaningless trash.

Illusory Foresights Buying with a foresight is an absolutely normal thing to do. We buy stacks of rice to avail bundled costs, we buy items to be given as gifts later and we purchase items at once to benefit from discounts and offers. However, a hoarder will buy an item without knowing for what s/he needs it or knowing that s/he will need it at a future date. S/he might save the item thinking that it will be of a future use for some occasion.

Buying Items of Less Significant Value A person who has an interest of collecting items such as stamps or coins or dolls will have some significant value attached to items and will be less willing to part with it.

Whereas a hoarder will be collecting insignificant items - such as newspapers, used journals, broken appliances, etc. – which s/he will face the failure to discard at a later date.

Social Isolation Hoarders will have no organisation to the items they hoard – it results in clutter, hampering the routine functioning of life. Besides being an impediment, this clutter makes the dwelling unsanitary. Due to the utter stash, hoarders are skeptical of having

any visitors and will go to any length to hide their clutter from others. Even if hoarders live along with another person, the latter party feels appalled at their condition. Hence, hoarders tend to live in social isolation.

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