Hoarding is a disease

For young people, hoarding tends to be more of a "fetish", with a special fondness for some items that they can't get rid of, while middle-aged and older people tend to collect more and more because they are more attached to their things and think it's a shame to throw them away.

The specific manifestation of hoarding disorder: it is difficult or unwilling to throw away and excessive storage, accumulation of a large number of items regardless of their actual value, such as packaging boxes, old clothes, and even picking up a variety of items discarded by others, etc., due to the strong sense of attachment to these items, and therefore there will be psychological difficulties in discarding these items, and if you throw them away, you will feel the pain.

At the same time, a large number of items stored and piled up are often stacked in a haphazard manner, disregarding the original purpose of the place where they are stacked and causing inconvenience in home life, such as not being able to cook in the kitchen and not being able to take a bath in the bathroom, which can also cause pain in the family members of the cohabitating family members. Sometimes the stacked items are still relatively orderly and uncluttered, but this is usually the result of organizing or urging or intervening by family members and so on.