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Question: Having just discovered that my hoarding/saving is an OCD, I’m immersing myself in the literature & want to start treatment with an experienced BT. I’m not depressed, but have spent years in/out of therapy with non-BT’s. Can you advise (without an actual assessment) if BT alone might be effective (with aggressive goals and compliance)? …
Question: My 46 year old brother collects junk to the point where he has lost his wife and job, and the city has fined him and made him go to court. Nothing wakes him up. Is this a symptom of OCD? Is it treatable by medication or psychiatrist? Answer 1: Yes, it’s a symptom of …
Question: I have OCD symptoms primarily saving, collecting, and hoarding. From shopping near ruinous finances. Cluttered house with small pathways through rooms. 200mg Zoloft has helped with other symptoms such as carrying too much in multiple pockets and bags, but not with the acquisitiveness. Shopping seems to sublimate a desire for closeness with other people …
Question: A friend of mine has a severe problem with collecting “stuff,” to the point where he can barely get into his flat, and his car is completely filled with junk. This has become overwhelming for him and thinks about it constantly, though he rarely summons the energy to do anything about it. He claims …
Question: My mom saves everything, and has filled my parents’ large house from top to bottom. She wants very much to change, but knows she can’t do it alone. She’s asked me to find help because she hasn’t been able to seek it herself – she’s afraid. She’s willing to go to “OCD camp’ (if …
Question: A family member collects things (clothes others throw out, broken strollers from the street, doors from rehabbed apartments, etc.) and will throw nothing out. Her apartment is literally unusable because it is so full of junk. This has a serious impact on spouse and children. Is this OCD? Thanks Irene – South Lanarkshire. Answer …
Question: I believe that my mother had OCD expressed as hoarding. Every room in her house is full of stuff piled literally five to six feet high. I suggested that she had this disease and she gets very upset with me. I gave her the name and number of a local psychiatrist that specializes in …
Question: I read that for the children of OCD parents it is important not to “enable.” Why is advice so different for children of hoarders? Every doctor I have consulted says NOT to clean up because the OCDer through CBT has to learn to do this for themselves. To clean out my firetrap garage seems …
Question: I’m 15 and I don’t think anything is wrong with me but I read an article in the Seventeen magazine and while reading it I saw something about “hoarders” and some of those things I see in my mother she saves magazine papers, magazines, bills from the stores, coupons, she buys a lot of …
Question: Please advise for supporting family member with OCD hoarding symptoms. The patient is my cousin and a single parent in treatment and on meds for years. Home has become unsafe (doors blocked, etc.), and shame factor for child in home is extreme. She expresses helplessness and anger about addressing symptoms. Her mother was a …