Collection of some past news stories

COH & ACOA Joined: Jul 22, 2006 Posts: 2049 Location: Cabo

Hello,
Here's a bunch of past articles I put together to post in the new forum I made for those who compulsively save to talk. Thought this list might interest some here too---
Hopefully the links to all these stories are still working---if not, I know I have the stories saved in this Family Community site database when they first came out. Let me know if any don't show and I can direct you to where you can find the article on this site.
Donna

ps: My mom seemed to really like the AARP article listed below, she said it described what it's like to be a hoarder (for her) perfectly:

July 3, 2007
Compulsive Hoarders Benefit From Therapy
By: Psych Central Senior News Editor
Source: Menninger Clinic
http://psychcentral.com/news/2007/07/03/compulsive-hoarders-benefit-from-therapy/

May 21, 2007
The Seattle Times-Growing Older
The best help for hoarders is understanding.
By Liz Taylor
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/living/2003712935_liztaylor21.html?syndication=rss

May 29, 2007
Beach identifies hoarders, helps them overcome compulsion
The Virginia Pilot
By Susan E. White
http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=125578&ran=223852

May 2, 2007
World of Compulsive Hoarders
Channel 4-United Kingdom
http://www.channel4.com/health/microsites/0-9/4health/mind/wwr_ocd.html

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.
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2007/04/02/buried_alive/?page=1

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:
http://www.rd.com/content/the-hoarding-syndrome--when-clutter-goes-out-of-control/
UK Version of Readers Digest Article with UK Resources listed:
http://www.readersdigest.co.uk/clutter-goes-out-of-control-i-211.html

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.
http://www.knbc.com/health/11083229/detail.html?dl=mainclick

January 2007
AARP-Conquering Clutter
By David Dudley
http://www.aarpmagazine.org/lifestyle/conquer_clutter.html

ABC Medical Mystery: Compulsive Hoarders
A Psychological Compulsion to Keep Everything, Even When It Ruins Your Life.
By Cecile Bouchardeau
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2790669&page=1

December 18, 2006
Hoarders Just Can't Let Go
Deseret News (Salt Lake City)
By Elaine Jarvik
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4188/is_20061218/ai_n16895841

December 17, 2006
NorthJersey.com
When a neighbor has hoarder disorder
By Virginia Rohan
http://www.lawnj.com/news/record_article_12_17_06.pdf

October 25, 2006
Grabbing hoarding by the horns
Orange County (CA) Register
By Frank Mickadeit
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/columns/article_1328946.php

June 2006
Inside the World of the Compulsive Hoarder
By Matthew Robb, MSW, LCSW-C
Social Work Today
http://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/swmay2006p7.html

June 1, 2006
Applied Neurology
The Perils of Compulsive Hoarding and How To Intervene
By Zsuzsa Meszaros, MD, PhD, Walter A. Brown, MD
http://appneurology.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=190500329

February 11, 2006
ABC News
Compulsive Hoarders Can't Throw Things Away
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Health/story?id=1606646&page=1

Jan. 26, 2006
Hoard mentality
by Jennifer Wells, from the Toronto Star
http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&call_pageid=971358637177&c=Article&cid=1138451589292

September 4, 2005
Parade Magazine
Are You A Packrat?
Dianne Hales
http://www.parade.com/articles/editions/2005/edition_09-04-2005/featured_1

April 18, 2005
Sacramento Bee
Obsessions and Compulsions Real Life Story-Compulsion for Clutter Poses
Home Hazard
By Nancy Weaver Teichert
http://www.helpstartshere.org/mind_and_spirit/obsessions_and_compulsions/real_life_stories/obsessions_and_compulsions_real_life_story.html

June 3, 2004
PET Study Finds Neurobiology Of Hoarders Differs From Other Obsessive-compulsive Disorder Patients Science Daily/UCLA
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/06/040603070801.htm

June 2, 2004
Hoarding not a usual compulsion
BBC News
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3769677.stm

December 31, 2003
New York Times
So much clutter, so little room:
Looking inside the hoarder's lair by Nina Bernstein.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0DE1D7113EF932A05751C1A9659C8B63&sec=&pagewanted=print

April 27, 2007
Self Neglect, Hoarding Often Linked
SignonSanDiego.com/Union Tribune
http://eldercare.uniontrib.com/news/denise/hoarding.cfm

22 October, 2001
Dr. Randy Frost discusses Hoarding
ABCNews.com chat transcript
http://abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/chat_hoarding102299.html

December 2, 1997
CityPages.com
Behind Closed Doors
by Josie Rawson
http://www.citypages.com/databank/18/849/article3322.asp

Hazards:

The Fairfax County (VA) Hoarding Task force pages. Shows how the authorities view hoarding.
http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/dpwes/trash/hoarding.htm

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.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2004-02-18-hoarding-usat_x.htm

Miscellaneous

Homer & Langley Collyer
http://www.ocfoundation.org/hoarding/case-studies/langley-collyer-the-mystery-hoarder-of-harlem.php

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COH & ACOA Joined: Jul 22, 2006 Posts: 2049 Location: Cabo

Yikes!