Whether you are someone who lives around piles of things you cannot throw away, you had an aunt who was too embarrassed to let anyone into her cluttered home or you have seen the TV show “Hoarders,” ...

Hoarding behavior has been observed in individuals with schizophrenia for more than a century. Despite this longstanding recognition, there has been a paucity of research exploring the motivations and ...

Amid the spread of coronavirus infections, the author investigates how rumors of toilet papers shortages and hoarding started as well as how these two phenomena interacted with each other. Based on ...

People who accumulate garbage and unnecessary furniture and create a garbage house, and ' digital hoarding ' where unnecessary data cannot be easily thrown away, are called ' compulsive hoarding ' in ...

The line between collecting and hoarding isn’t always clear to the casual observer. While one person’s carefully curated vinyl record collection might occupy an entire room, another’s seemingly random ...

You might have noticed an elderly relative or neighbor whose home has gradually filled with newspapers, boxes, and items that seem to serve no purpose. What looks like simple messiness could actually ...

Hoarding, a condition often sensationalized in the media and misunderstood by the public, is a complex psychological disorder that affects millions of individuals worldwide. Characterized by the ...