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 …
Question: “Clearing a hoarders house? What is the best way to deal with my mothers hoarded house. I need the details of a fully licensed company that are specialists in cleaning out cluttered houses. Can you help? I also have a question about my mums sister is who is still alive and also a huge …
Question: “My father was a hoarder and I need hoarded house clearance specialist company to clear his property, can you give me the details of a reliable licensed house clearance company. I also have a question! Has research shown any one OCD medication to be superior for the Hoarding variety of OCD? My father had …
Question: “My recently deceased father was a hoarder. I am looking for a reputable house clearance service to clear his cluttered house. I wanted to ask what distinguishes true hoarding tendencies from tendencies toward laziness? Would it be realistic to think that someone could suffer from both?” Answer: Although a principle feature of hoarding is …
Question: “My mother was a hoarder, and I will soon need to book a house clearance company to clear the house. I have been highly motivated to keep clutter out of my own home. My son, however, is not as motivated and appears to have hoarding tendencies. Is it possible that early intervention treatment could …