Suggestions on things to show your hoarding loved one to show how they are not alone as you try to open up a dialogue with them:
 Go to advice sent in by family members Go to How & When to help from various sources
 From Professionals:
• New England Hoarding Consortium, June 2006 Newsletter (pdf).
Page 5 gives some suggestions on how to talk about it with a person that hoards.
•Hoarding and Intervention: Helping Hoarders Get Treatment, by
Fugen Neziroglu, Ph.D., ABBP, ADAA
Articles to pick a few to print for them?
• Misc. Articles/Literature
• General news stories about compulsive hoarding
• Fire Hazards and hoarding
Do they have a computer?
• Online videos about hoarding to show them
• Online audio about hoarding for them to listen to
Other:
• Remaining anonymous
• Books to get them about Hoarding
• Videos to order for them about Hoarding
• Websites with compassion for them to explore
•Inspiration
»Tools for self-help
Suggestions on things to print & show your parent-pick a few?:
107 Reasons Why People Hoard-sent in by those that do.
Pictures of other homes like theirs from the Squalor Survivors website (must request permission)
A collection of posts from Squalor Survivors on "How To Start", or "Paper and Mail".
Posts from the Messiness & Hoarders Yahoo Group (with the permission of group owner or moderators)
Fact Sheets about Hoarding
A story about a nun who hoards, "Sister Elizabeth"
"Saving The World" by Fred Penzel, Ph.D
Is Compulsive Hoarding a Genetically and Neurobiologically Discrete Syndrome?
American Journal of Psychiatry
Sanjaya Saxena, M.D.
Cerebral Glucose Metabolism in Obsessive-Compulsive Hoarding
Sanjaya Saxena, M.D.
-The American Journal of Psychiatry, June 2004
Brain region identified that controls collecting behavior
"The UI team studied 86 people with focal brain lesions - very specific areas of brain damage - to see if damage to particular brain regions could account for abnormal collecting behavior."
-Medical News Today, 12/04
Compulsive Clutter-In Depth Doctor Interview»
(Sanjaya Saxena, M.D., Psychiatrist)
Ivanhoe Broadcast News Interview
February 8, 2007
General News Stories:
July 3, 2007
Compulsive Hoarders Benefit From Therapy
By: Psych Central Senior News Editor
Source: Menninger Clinic
May 21, 2007
The Seattle Times-Growing Older
The best help for hoarders is understanding.
By Liz Taylor
May 2, 2007
World of Compulsive Hoarders
Channel 4-United Kingdom
April 2007
Buried Alive, The Boston Globe
Those who hoard bear the weight of their mess plus a mental disorder only now being understood. Treatment programs are just beginning. Quotes from Dr. Gail Steketee, Hoarding Expert.
March 2007
Readers Digest
The Hoarding Syndrome -When Clutter Goes Out Of Control
“Saving stuff is normal. Sometimes, though, it can go too far.”
By Deborah Branscum
UK Version of Readers Digest Article with UK Resources listed
February 2007
Coping With Obsession
KNBC, Los Angeles
Maybe you know somebody who has an unusual collection of plastic bags or old newspapers piled up to the ceiling. Is it simply clutter or is it more than that? NBC4's Paul Moyer met a Southland family struggling with how to help their mother whose clutter has literally pushed them all out of the house.
*January 2007
AARP-Conquering Clutter
By David Dudley
*Very good article
ABC Medical Mystery: Compulsive Hoarders
A Psychological Compulsion to Keep Everything, Even When It Ruins Your Life.
By Cecile Bouchardeau
December 18, 2006
Hoarders Just Can't Let Go
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
By Elaine Jarvik
June 2006
Inside the World of the Compulsive Hoarder
By Matthew Robb, MSW, LCSW-C
Social Work Today
February 11, 2006
ABC News
Compulsive Hoarders Can't Throw Things Away
Jan. 26, 2006
Hoard mentality
by Jennifer Wells, from the Toronto Star
September 4, 2005
Parade Magazine
Are You A Packrat?
Dianne Hales
April 18, 2005
Sacramento Bee
Obsessions and Compulsions Real Life Story-Compulsion for Clutter Poses
Home Hazard
By Nancy Weaver Teichert
June 3, 2004
PET Study Finds Neurobiology Of Hoarders Differs From Other Obsessive-
compulsive Disorder Patients
Science Daily/UCLA
June 2, 2004
Hoarding not a usual compulsion
BBC News
December 31, 2003
New York Times
So much clutter, so little room:
Looking inside the hoarder's lair by Nina Bernstein.
April 27, 2007
Self Neglect, Hoarding Often Linked
SignonSanDiego.com/Union Tribune
22 October, 2001
Dr. Randy Frost discusses Hoarding
ABCNews.com chat transcript
December 2, 1997
CityPages.com
Behind Closed Doors
by Josie Rawson
Dangers:
Fire Hazards
More general news articles and more can be found here and here.
Do they have a computer?
Online videos to watch about Understanding Compulsive Hoarding:
Online presentation on Compulsive Hoarding presented by Gail Steketee, Ph.D.
Online video for understanding hoarding, with Dr. Randy Frost
Webcast of the Neurobiology of Compulsive Hoarders presented by Sanjaya Saxena, M.D.
Discovery Channel-Canada piece on Hoarding, featuring Sanjaya Saxena, M.D.
ABC News 'Compulsive Hoarders' Can't Throw Things Away
Woman Says She Lost Job, Fiance to Disorder that Makes Her Feel Ill When She Streamlines
Fox6 San Diego Video about Hoarding
Compulsive Hoarders Aren't Alone video:
Online audio they could listen to:
Boston NPR Show "Too Much Stuff" with Dr. Gail Steketee about Hoarding "We're far from being able to say it's a genetic problem.I'd like to say it's a psychiatric disorder, but now we are calling it a behavioral syndrome."
VOICE OF AMERICA;12 March 2007-Hoarders are afraid to throw things away. They may save old newspapers, clothing, even old food; some people hoard animals. The problem is also a public
safety concern.
Transcript of radio broadcast
MP3 Download Audio
Listen in Real Audio
"The researchers found evidence suggesting that an area of genes on chromosome fourteen was linked with compulsive hoarding. They said the linkage became stronger when two or more family members affected with compulsive hoarding were tested."
Clinging To Clutter Radio Program-
"After the Dumpster";on Weekend America, by Elizabeth Chur
Elizabeth Chur interviews Melodie, a compulsive hoarder who will be attending the Hoarding Conference in San Francisco this week. (10/26/06):Melodie's apartment is beyond cluttered and everyone has a suggestion on how to fix it, like just take everything you own and throw it out. And after they suggest things like that for the billionth time, she will break down and sob uncontrollably.
Independent producer Elizabeth Chur checks in with Melodie at her apartment in San Francisco, California.
When Nothing Goes to Waste: the Mystery of Obsessive Hoarding
Listen to Science in the News 2005 broadcast of Voice of America explaining Hoarding, good for new-learners.
(childrenofhoarders.com recommendation: fast forward to close to 1/2 way through to get to discussion about OCD, Dr. Sanjaya Saxenas' study results of brain activity in hoarders/Dr. Randy Frosts' quotes on hoarding being a public health crisis/Dr. Gary Patroneks' quotes on animal hoarding).
Download MP3
Download RealAudio
Reader's Digest magazine editors and experts take you behind the scenes, with the latest in health and fitness.
Addicted to Clutter (4:55)
Listen to audio program HERE.
All In The Mind Radio Show About Hoarding-
BBC Radio 410/28/2003
HOARDING
There is a dividing line between those of us who collect a lot of possessions and those that hoard obsessively and find it increasingly difficult to throw anything away. Hoarding is classed as a form of OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and it's attracting renewed interest from psychologists and psychiatrists.
Many hoarders often suffer from it without realising they have a problem. Usually the condition goes unnoticed until the person faces eviction or action by a local health department. But those
who are compulsive hoarders can become incapacitated and disabled by their lifestyle they become disorganised lives are isolated and socialising becomes a problemDr Raj Persaud visits
the home of one hoarder, Sheree and speaks to Satwant Singh, a nurse consultant in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy at Newham Primary Care Trust who specialises in treating hoarding. Listen
here. (Note from childrenofhoarders.com: It takes about 2 mins. to get to hoarding part of program/hoarding part lasts about 15 minutes)
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Can't talk about it because of the anger & deflection off the topic?
Maybe you could...
Videos/Audio to order for them:
Oprah Show about compulsive hoarding from 5/05/06 &
8/05-"Inside the Secret Lives of Hoarders.
Watch video clip/order transcript here. (video of show not available to purchase).
Dr. Phil Show on Hoarding- November 15, 2006
When Too Much Is ... Too Much
Other shows on Hoarding by Dr. Phil:
Extreme Behaviors: Dr. Phil's first guest has lost two husbands
because of her shopping sprees, and now her hoarding has left
absolutely no room to live in her home. Order video or transcript.
"Throw It Out!"
John, is a packrat who turned their beautiful four-bedroom home into what she calls "the black hole." The house became so overcrowded with junk that they were forced to live in a trailer, and now the trailer is becoming filled to the brim! Will John and Nancy ever be able to live in their house again? And how is John's hoarding affecting their three children?
-Order follow-up show on Hoarding: When John spoke with Dr. Phil, he didn't think his hoarding habits were a problem;even though his junk squeezed his family out of the house and into a trailer! How did he do when seven trucks arrived to clean out his house?
Packrat, The Movie
The Infinite Mind Radio Show (a tape featuring two doctors who research hoarding Frost/Saxena). Also see online video/audio page of this site.
Dateline Show on Compulsive Hoarding, 3-14-2004
For tapes and transcripts, viewers can call 1-866-NBC-TAPE for NBC. Just mention the show "Dateline" date of show, and subject: hoarding
Books To Get Them:
Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding & Buried in Treasures
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