Items and gifts are often saved until the proper recipient is found who will value the item
as much as the person saving it does.

Chapter 23 about Compulsive Hoarding
By Frost/Steketee
OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDERS-Practical Management Third Edition (1998)
Michael A. Jenike, M.D.

Hoarding Task Force Related News

Cognitive and Behavioral Treatment of Compulsive Hoarding(pdf)

New England Hoarding Consortium
Spring 2008 Newsletter (pdf)
Spring 2007 Newsletter (pdf)
Spring 2006 Newsletter (pdf)

All links below are external» and will direct you away from this site.

"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

Hoarding and Alzheimer's Disease» (pdf) -One Daughter's Story
Presented by Rosemary Bakker, Director of NYC Hoarding Task Force
on Hoarding and Older Adults

Compulsive Clutter-In Depth Doctor  Interview»
(Sanjaya Saxena, M.D., Psychiatrist)
Ivanhoe Broadcast News Interview
February 8, 2007

Hoarding Behavior and Self Neglect(pdf)
September 22, 2004-American Red Cross of Northeastern NY Symposium Minutes


Stuff, by Tyler C. Gore»
Family Perspective:  This essay first appeared in Literal Latté, won a Riggs Gold Medal Essay Award, and was cited in The Best American Essays 1998.

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 29, 2007
Beach identifies hoarders, helps them overcome compulsion
The Virginia Pilot
By Susan E. White

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

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

December 17, 2006
NorthJersey.com
When a neighbor has hoarder disorder
By Virginia Rohan

October 25, 2006
Grabbing hoarding by the horns
Orange County (CA) Register
By Frank Mickadeit

June 2006
Inside the World of the Compulsive Hoarder
By Matthew Robb, MSW, LCSW-C
Social Work Today

June 1, 2006
Applied Neurology
The Perils of Compulsive Hoarding and How To Intervene
By Zsuzsa Meszaros, MD, PhD, Walter A. Brown, MD

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

The Fairfax County (VA) Hoarding Task force pages. Shows how the authorities view hoarding.

2/2004
The danger of hoarding
USA Today
by Joyce Cohen. An informative article on the USA Today website which acknowledges the seriousness of a hoarding disorder. It also includes a sidebar of tips for people who fall into the borderline hoarder category.

Miscellaneous

Homer & Langley Collyer