Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Studies suggest that between 3% and 5% of the population are compulsive hoarders, posing danger to themselves and others. Photo by ...

What comes to mind when you read the word "addiction?" Does it make you think of repetitive use of alcohol and drugs despite negative consequences? Or do you think of shopping, sexual activity, video ...

Some of the treatment options for compulsive hoarding are therapy, medication, support groups, and help from a professional organizer. Everyone likes having stuff in their home, and many people are ...

Behind closed doors across the country, millions of individuals are quietly overwhelmed by something most of us take for granted: our relationship with things we bring into our homes. The ...

Rehearsing alternative outcomes of discarding through imagery rescripting shows promise as a treatment strategy for people who hoard, a study by UNSW psychology researchers has shown. The paper is ...

Fugen Neziroglu, Jerome Bubrick, Jose A. Yaryura-Tobias. New Harbinger Publications, $16.95 (146pp) ISBN 978-1-57224-349-1 The Collyer brothers, with their bicycle-, chandelier- and newspaper-packed ...

In their Cooperatives and Condominiums column, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan's Richard Siegler and Eva Talel discuss Collyer's conditions, which can create serious health and safety concerns for an ...

Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is an anxiety disorder. It causes a person to have intrusive, distressing thoughts, which they manage using compulsive behaviors. For example, a person, who fixates ...

Clutter makes it tough to enjoy our homes. Who hasn’t sidestepped a precarious stack of mail or random boxes in the hallway? Maybe you’ve even hesitated to invite guests over, worried they’d see the ...

NEW YORK, Oct. 17 (UPI) --News stories about hoarding seem to appear with greater frequency these days, telling tales of people who have little space to eat or sleep because their floors, countertops ...