There really is no motivation behind
hoarding. The outside world may think different, but hoarders can’t see any
different. There is no DIFFRENT.
Hoarding becomes a routine, something that
they have just learned to live with. It has become part of them, they know
nothing else. It has completely taken control. Controlling the way they live,
thrive and breathe.
To the hoarder themselves, they find they
are prisoners in an overwhelming rut of an addictive, uncontrollable substance.
And that substance is the accumulation of basically everything. It’s like they
need help, but don’t know where to find it. Or they want to actually get out of
the habit they have obtained, usually over the past couple of years, but they
can’t because for every two steps they take forward they take one step back. It
would be a nightmare, to (a) be living amongst your own trash and (b) to be in
this mental state of incapability to care for yourself without the stress of
daily living. Wouldn’t it be absolutely horrifying, just to be in that
position, and to know that you put yourself there?
That is how all
hoarders feel, that they can’t go anywhere without all this trash and other
worrisome things following right behind. And even if they work towards a
cleaner lifestyle, that impulse will always be there to catch them if they
fall.
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