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Although most people enjoy acquiring and using their possessions and nearly everyone keeps some things they dont need or use, people with compulsive hoarding carry this to an extreme. For them, ridding themselves of extra possessions is emotionally exhausting. Organizing is difficult and... read more
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Hoarding can be defined as having three components: (1) the acquiring of and failure to discard a large number of possessions that appear to be useless or of limited value, (2) living spaces sufficiently cluttered so that the clutter precludes activities for which those spaces were designed, and (3) significant impairment in functioning or distress caused by the hoarding.
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