Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder Takes Many Forms
Brain Physics Mental Health Resource
Hoarding is considered a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). This behavior, also called “pathological collecting,” involves acquiring and saving many objects that may seem useless or of no value. It is not uncommon for people with hoarding OCD to completely fill their homes with clutter so that the living space is unusable. Early psychoanalysts considered hoarding a sign of “anal” character traits because of the withholding nature of the behavior…” More
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