Blog #5 - Diffrent Types Of Hoarding

Betcha didn’t know that there was more than one type of hoarding? Did you? Well don’t worry, I didn’t either.

Almost all types of hoarding fall under the same category. “Compulsive Hoarding”

Well what exactly does the word ‘compulsive’ mean?  Here is the definition:

Compulsive; a result from an irresistible urge, an urge that is against one’s conscious wishes.

Most hoarders have this distraught feeling towards realization of what they have been doing to themselves over a vast period of time. They really WANT to get rid of the habitual accumulation, but that want is usually overpowered by the lack of self control, or as some may say, “the need” to hoard their belongings.

There are so many ways that hoarding could be conceived and put under a ‘scientific term’. And there are several types of hoarding.

-          Animal hoarding

-          Bibliomania (Hoarding of books)/ Information Hoarder

-          Syllogomania (Hoarding of Trash or Garbage)

-          Larder Hoarding (Hoarding of Food)

-          Recyclers

-          Collectors

-          Shopaholics

 

Those are some of the many types of hoarding that put people just like you and me in situations they can’t get themselves out of. It is just a spinning top, going round and round and round. Until one day you burn out, and you can never get going again.

(Ps. That was the best analogy I could come up with..)