Hoarding

it depends on the person and what they are hoarding. some people do have a psychological disorder and shop to fill voids in their life when they dont really need anything. and they collect stuff that they dont need and usually dont use.

i think doctors should take more action when diagnosing patiets. they should be much more faster and let people aviod long ques becasue the job can be done a lot faster but they dont want the added pressure on them selves so that is why they do that

I think it is an illness like OCD or something. I don't think it's laziness because the people I know that do it keep busy trying to GET MORE stuff to save!

I believe some people are just to lazy to clean up. But I believe there are some that are really suffering from an illness. I don't know if it would be emotional or mental. I saw on TV one time where this man had kept so much stuff that they had to move out of their house and into a single wide trailer which he was also filling up. I think something drastic had happened in the mans life prior to him doing this. I can't remember if he lost a child or his mother. But the junk he hung on to was just junk. Some of it was just garbage, like empty pork and bean cans, grungy oven racks and stuff like that, old brillo pads. I mean really odd stuff.

It's called OCD Hoarding (Obessive compulsive Disorder), and there's alot of articles and research about it on the net. It might not be a OCD, its very different from people with OCD, but anyway, the important research show that these people have physical diffences in their brain, like lower activity in posterior cingulate gyrus, and also people who suffer from stroke or brain lesion in that part of the brain, can also turn from 'normal' to a hoarder. So I think its very much physical or biological. Lazy is when you temporarily have a mess, because even lazy people realise that they gotta pick things up to function, so they can find stuff. And also lazy people don't collect junk, even if they are not super tidy or super-organised. If they are lazy, why would they give themself more things to do like piling up stuff. But for people with compulsive hoarding, its VERY hard to let go of things, so they collect alot of things, even what most people consider as junk. that's the illness, because they try to save everything, even if they can't use all of it. And it clutters their space, and it makes it more difficult for them to live.