We now know why hoarders hoard. So now we
might ask this question; “Why can’t they just stop?”
It seems so simple. Just letting the
syllables roll off your tongue without the slightest idea of what those string
of words actually mean. But maybe hoarders ask themselves the exact same
question..
Hoarding is just an annoying cycle of
repetition. Repeating itself every day, until it becomes monotonous and boring.
Hoarders have nothing left after their life
of hoarding has disappeared. That could be the culprit for holding a hoarder
back from cleaning out their space, both physically and mentally. It might just
take some convincing, or some other view on what is happening, or it could take
a lot of work. It really all depends on who the person is, and what is going on
in their head.
Fear is defiantly associated with the
‘after-math’ of a troubled hoarder. But why fear? Hoarders feel unsafe and
unguarded without all this materialized belongings surrounding them. It
literally drives them to the crazy house. Because of all those years in hiding
or shame, it frightens the hoarders to come out in the open. Even being thrown
back into society would be a scary event, not to mention all the things that
remind them of their previous life; the life of hoarding.
So going back to the question of why can’t
hoarders just throw the stuff out and move on. It really isn’t that simple. To
the outside world it may be, but only because we have labeled and stereotyped
this kind of mental disorder in several ways.
You may be
thinking to yourself that hoarding is not a mental illness, but in fact it is.
Anyone can be diagnosed as a compulsive hoarder. And like I mentioned before,
it is something in a hoarders brain that helps them to believe items with
absolutely no value or use, can be used.
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