Compulsive hoarding
Compulsive hoarding may be defined as giving in to the compulsion to collect worthless, useless items, and the refusal to discard them even though they have no use and little or no value. The desire to hoard can be found in several psychiatric illnesses, but is mostly associated with people who suffer from OCDs (Obsessive Compulsive Disorders). For those who are afflicted with compulsive hoarding as their particular OCD, their lives become seriously disrupted. The symptoms that often go along with hoarding include a negative attitude, the inability to make decisions, and an unwillingness to meet problems head on. Hoarding is actually much more common that you may think, and in the UK alone over one in every two hundred people are afflicted.
