Hoarding is a mental illness that will need to be treated by professionals. Those with a hoarding disorder may also have anobsessive-compulsive disorder(OCD). It’s estimated that a hoarding disorder affects two to six percent of the population. Family members are usually the first to notice t...
Health insurance that doesn’t adequately cover mental illness treatment Mental Health Treatment Treatments may vary depending on the type of mental health disorder a person has. However, mental health care almost always involves some form of psychiatric counseling. Medications may also be prescribed. ...
Jerusalem syndrome and Paris syndrome are just two extreme manifestations of mental illness that travelers have experienced while visiting foreign lands.
I was watching a program the other day that dealt with hoarding which I think is an aspect of abnormal behavior in psychology. Many of these people that were featured on the show lived in deplorable conditions and they held on to things like empty bottles and paper wrappers that really had...
(alienation, hoarding of resources) with what we’ve learned over the last hundred years about what types of economies and social systems can be made sustainable. Some countries feed, clothe, and treat their populace like their employers (because of taxes) instead of inconveniences. Others, like...
*We want someone who is not a sociopath. Because I don’t want to find out in five years that you are hoarding weird dolls in a secret basement closet or have some strange anger issue (because after I read “Gone Girl,” I literally called all my close family and friends to make sur...
As always, this is a labour of love, but it aligns with an important message I share all the time– it is time to pay attention to the information that matters, and what is going on in our world matters. The shiny stuff (political scandals, celebrity nonsense, and more) ...
It’s not so much that one hot day, but when they bank up. A few weeks ago a 35C day was great, because it was surrounded by a week of 25C weather. Now though, mid December, the bricks have absorbed all that heat and held onto it, like a child hoarding its chocolates after East...
I found out, 6 months into our marriage and only a few months into my pregnancy, that my STBX husband had paid for prostitutes, escort services and was hoarding a secret sex and porn addiction throughout our entire relationship. He could have infected not only ME, but our unborn baby wit...
A quick note:hoarding is a psychological disorder, while being cluttered or disorganized is not. The neurological response in non-hoarders may be smaller, but it's still worth noting, which is why I bring it up here. Just keeping this fact in mind can help ease the difficulty ofgetting ri...