How Hoarding Affects Life

Hoarding:

How it Can Affect Your Life Hoarding is something that people think they know much about. Society tends to think that “hoarding is just an individual that collects a lot of things”. But really, it is much more than that. Hoarding is a disorder that has a severe problem with getting rid of or in their case, “letting go”. This can deal with personal items like pictures and videos of their child's first words to even silly things such as food, clothing, trash, or for instance, cat toys from a pet they had years ago. The individuals ends up collecting a wide variety of items to the point it becomes obsessive. Hoarding is not only a physical and mental hazard, it’s a psychological disorder that interferes with your life. There are

It can threaten your life mentally and of course, physically(the clutter). It interferes mentally by showing different brain activation patterns than people who don't collect things. A UCLA study believes that hoarders had lower-than-normal baseline levels of activity in an area called the cingulate gyrus, located in the limbic system. Researchers suggests that people who have a hoarding problem show a deficit in emotional self-control, which can explain why hoarders have a difficult time with things like decision-making and other cognitive problems associated with hoarding. Another way hoarding can interfere with your life is possibly experiencing a lack in social relationships as well as a loss of support within some family members. Their family members might never want to go over to the hoarder’s house because of that clutter and how gross it can be sometimes, since some(or most) of the clutter is trash related like expired food. It also teaches the individual that as they become more adapted to their environment, they are more likely to procrastinate on more things like making the bed after they wake up and of course procrastinating cleaning. The most common thing that results from procrastination is the individual forming multiple bonds to many objects, almost seeing the object as a totem or “emotional anchor”. This makes it extremely more difficult to throw the things