online video: interview with a psychiatrist re: hoarding

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14 News Investigates: House of Hoarders pt. 2
Feb 8, 2008 05:22 PM MST
This is the full interview with Dr. Louis Cady of Evansville for Stefanie Silvey's "House of Hoarders" investigation.

31 minute interview...covers animal hoarding, around minute 19 it gets into object hoarding:
http://www.14wfie.com/Global/story.asp?S=7846049&nav=menu54_1
or
http://tinyurl.com/3dh33k

(Also at this link is an option to click on 6 minute video cover animal hoarding exclusively.)

Quote:

Dr. Cady said the big question with hoarding is: Is it a biological problem or a psychological one? He said the answer can be both. He said, in many cases there can be a physical explanation for hoarding.

But, in other cases, it can be psychological, where someone's past causes them to collect. He said if you can first figure out which category a person falls under, and then convince them to get help, it is possible to get a handle on hoarding.

It is possible to have both biological and psychological reasons for hoarding. Often times low seratonin levels are found in hoarders, but also in those suffering from extreme depression, obsessive compulsive disorder or those with a history of violent suicides in their family.