So, what is hoarding? Because if I am going
to go into detail, then we best know what the heck I’m talking about, right?
Hoarding is a specific pattern of behaviour
that is well known and recognized as the excessive accumulation of stuff. Just
stuff. Everything, from newspapers to televisions to animals or just plain old
garbage. And the hoarder responsible is unwilling to get rid of it. Soon, it
piles up, and up and up, until it kills you. Slowly but surely you dig yourself
a hole to hell.
Hoarders can’t give anything away; they
find it hard to give away a mismatched sock... for what purpose? I will never
know. Researchers say that just thinking about cleaning up or just giving
something of the slightest value away produces hoarders with anxiety. Putting
it into perspective, most hoarders are perfectionists. They waste their time
thinking about what to do with something until it stresses them out enough that
they just decide to keep everything. To them, there are just so many
possibilities that you could do with a sock. It could be used a makeshift
mitten, or something to hold your spare change. And the thing with a hoarder is
that they actually consider needing it at a later time.
They
call it preparation, we call it un-cleanliness.
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