Hoarding page

Boston.com - November 30, 2008

Cambridge reaches out to those who can't stop hoarding.

http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/11/30/cambridge_reaches_out_to_those_who_cant_stop_hoarding/

American Public Media-Weekend America- November 29, 2008

The Tragedy of Stuff,

Cathy Duchamp was married to someone she prefers to call "chronically disorganized." Here's her story.
http://weekendamerica.publicradio.org/display/web/2008/11/29/tragedy_of_stuff/?refid=0

Columbus Ohio, November 24, 2008
Buried in stuff? Overwhelmed? Want to try a hoarding support group?

Great commentary!

http://columbus.craigslist.org/grp/932450206.html

Local -12.com, Cincinnati Ohio, November 14, 2008

Help For Those Who Hoard

http://www.local12.com/mostpopular/story.aspx?content_id=848c2aa8-c619-47af-ac92-8617b47cf71d

Video of a hoarding related fire in Mt Auburn

Help For Those Living the Secret Life of Hoarding

Lawrence, Kansas -Lawrence Journal World.com October 13, 2008

When a pack rat goes overboard...

by Sarah Henning

Some cities, including Topeka, Wichita and Kansas City suburbs have task forces
devoted to the problem of hoarding. Lawrence doesn’t have a task force, but Jocelyn Lyons,
management team leader for the Jayhawk Area Agency on Aging, says that her group has
discussed starting a task force for Douglas County.

http://www2.ljworld.com/news/2008/oct/13/packrat/?city_local

September 3rd, 2008 by Betty Louise & Leslie Ameel
Back to School: De-Clutter and Get Organized Inside Out
http://womenonair.biz/blog/2008/09/03/back-to-school-de-clutter-and-get-organized-inside-out/

Desert News, Salt Lake City August 19, 2008

Can't buy me love — Define emotions, spiritual life before you declutter

By Susan Whitney

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,700251872,00.html

Ozarks FIRST.com, Pleasant Hope, MO. August 13, 2008
Understanding Why People Hoard
Article and Video re 363 Animals, 6 Kids and 12 Trailers
http://ozarksfirst.com/content/fulltext/?cid=47901

Canada Leader Post August 13, 2008
Court orders Regina cat hoarder banned for life from owning cats.
House was demolished after 40 cats, many of which were injured,
sick or dead, were removed .
http://www.canada.com/reginaleaderpost/index.html

Kansas City Hoarding Conference August 8, 2008

http://www.infozine.com/news/stories/op/storiesView/sid/29574/

Psychiatric News June 6, 2008
Psychiatr News 2008 43: 35-a-41
Clinical & Research News
When Does Hoarding Cross Line Into Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder?
by Aaron Levin
Hoarding may be a psychiatric symptom, but is it just one part of obsessive-compulsive disorder or does it stand alone?
http://pn.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/43/11/35-a
See also: http://www.nature.com/mp/journal/vaop/ncurrent/abs/400212

St Clair County Journal, Collinsville, Illinois - June 9, 2008
Recidivism high among animal hoarders
by Aaron Sudholt
A Swansea woman arrested last month on an outstanding traffic warrant was hoarding
29 animals in the van she lived in, police say.
http://stclairjournal.stltoday.com/articles/2008/06/10/news/doc484d40a0b0e21084559666.txt

Globe Correspondent / June 7, 2008
Tenants displaced by fire irked at neighbors
Officials say pair hoarded gasoline to avoid cost hikes
State law limits the amount of gasoline that can be stored in a home, including attached garages, to one quart, ..
Up to a gallon of gasoline can be kept in a shed or unattached garage that is at least 50 feet away from the home, ..
and all gas must be kept in approved containers.
By Jonnelle Marte
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2008/06/07/tenants_displaced_by_fire_irked_at_neighbors/

The Daily Sentinel, Grand Junction, Co., May 25, 2008
Mentality to amass might be disorder
by Le Roy Standish
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/content/news/stories/2008/04/22/042308_1b_Winder_psychology.html
County set to seize junk-filled lot
http://www.gjsentinel.com

National Public Health Week
The Wicked Local Newton Tab and Daily News Tribune April 8, 2008
Public health issues last longer than a week
By Guest Column / I. David Naparstek
http://www.wickedlocal.com/newton/news/lifestyle/columnists/x1277308212

The Daily News Tribune, April 8, 2008
Messiness can be harmless, but hoarding can be a sign of severe obsessive-compulsive disorder

For The Patriot Ledger By Gabrielle Gurley
http://www.dailynewstribune.com/archive/x428111261

Kristen Gerencher's health blog notes this commentary after an interview with the SFMHA Director.

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/healthmatters/2008/04/01/clutter-busting-for-health-and-wealth/?mod=MWBlog

SFGate -San Francisco Chronicle, March 18, 2008

Health Workers offer help to S.F.'s packrats.

by Heather Knight

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/03/17/MN5UVJJMU.DTL

USA Today On Deadline

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/03/san-francisco-t.html

http://mog78.blogspot.com/2008/03/hoarding-again.html

WORLD-HERALD March 3, 2008
Hoarding could take fatal turn, firefighters say
By Rhonda Stansberry, Staff Writer
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=1219&u_sid=10273090

The Eagle-Tribune (North Andover, Mass.) January 25, 2008
Driven to collect: hoarding can be compulsive
By Yadira Betances
http://www.mineralwellsindex.com/statenews/cnhinsall_story_025002911.html

Unclutterer.com, January 25, 2008

Stop hoarding magazines

Unfortunately, all of the time, effort, and space my grandmother sacrificed to keep her collection was superfluous
because the last 112 years of National Geographic magazines are now available on 32 CDs. I would prefer that they
appear on DVDs, but 32 CDs still take up less shelf space than thousands of the yellow border magazines.....
This isn’t the only magazine to undertake such an endeavor.....
http://unclutterer.com/2008/01/25/stop-hoarding-magazines/

New York Times January 1, 2008
A Clutter Too Deep for Mere Bins and Shelves
by Tara Parker
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/01/health/01well.html?em&ex=1199250000&en=ece7ac3f41e8cc7d&ei=5087%0A

Winnepeg December, 2007

Dumpster-diving tenant evicted after Winnipeg apartment seriously infested with bed bugs

http://bedbugger.com/2007/12/29/dumpster-diving-tenant-evicted-after-winnipeg-apartment-
seriously-infested-with-bed-bugs/

Journal-Constitution Published December 26, 2007
De Cluttering for the New Year
Declutter your home, reinvigorate your mind
By Patti Ghezzi
http://www.ajc.com/health/content/health/stories/2007/12/21/clutter_1226bh.html

Rural Mother: 1936, Aug 03, 2007
The Great Depression and hoarding -
Photo plus comments
http://www.shorpy.com/rural-mother-1936#comment-31894

Social Work Today, Vol. 6 No.3 P.27 May/June, 2006
Inside the World of the Compulsive Hoarder
by by Mathew Robb, MSW, LCSW-C
It's not just a matter of excessive collecting—compulsive hoarding can be a life-threatening behavior.
http://www.socialworktoday.com/archive/swmay2006p7.html

Psychology of clutter.wordpress.com December3, 2007

The Oprah Effect

http://psychologyofclutter.wordpress.com/2007/12/03/the-oprah-effect
%E2%80%94organization-costs-a-half-a-million-dollars/

Click on Thursday November 15, 2007 for the Oprah program on hoarding

http://www2.oprah.com/tows/coming/tows_come_main.jhtml

Winnipeg Sun, October 24, 2007

Hoarder Now Healed

By Shannon Vanraes, Sun Media

"In late September an eviction notice forced him to clean house,
a tough process he has documented and eventually hopes to make a film about. ...
He said he wasn’t angry with his landlord, adding the eviction notice was the push
he needed to change his life. "

http://winnipegsun.com/News/Winnipeg/2007/10/24/4601556.html

http.unclutterer.com, October 7, 2007
Growing up in a hoarding household
http://unclutterer.com/archives/2007/10/reader_elizabeth_explains_the.php

The Herald - Glasgow, Scotland,UK, May 3, 2007
Get this straight: it’s painful viewing
By David Belcher
A review of a British TV show on Compulsive Hoarding
"It's usually a terribly private condition, hoarding. Self-isolating loneliness;
the valuing of property over people. A suit of armour; ..."

Comments and information
Saving the world
By Fred Penzel,PhD
http://www.homestead.com/westsuffolkpsych/Hoarding.html

U.S. News & World Report, May 4, 2007.
Compulsive Hoarding -Not all obsessive compulsive disorders are the same
By Helen Fields 8/31/04
Discusses Saxena research
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/health/briefs/mentalhealth/hb040831a.htm

ABC News, May 4, 2007
Medical Mystery :Compulsive Hoarders
By CecileBouchardeau
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2790669&page=1

Globe Staff Boston.com / News Boston Globe, April 2, 2007
"Buried alive"
By Carey Goldberg,
Be sure to click on - How cluttered is your living space and Give a number to your space.
Reference to Buried in Treasures by Tolin, Frost and Steketee
http://www.boston.com/news/globe/health_science/articles/2007/04/02/buried_alive/?
p1=MEWell_Pos4

The Press-Enterprise, March 16, 2007
Norco wins out in tug of war with 'hoarders'
By SONJA BJELLAND
Work crews pulled several tons of junk Thursday from a 5½-acre Norco lot that's home
to two brothers who have amassed a collection of scrap metal, computer parts, old car batteries,
electrical wires and rotting food over the past 20 years.
http://www.pe.com/localnews/inland/stories/PE_News_Local_H_hoard16.41d0c31.html

Am J Psychiatry 164:380-384, March 2007
Is Compulsive Hoarding a Genetically and Neurobiologically Discrete Syndrome?
Implications for Diagnostic Classification
Editorial: By Sanjaya Saxena, M.D.
http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/164/3/380

From Reader's Digest, March 2007
The Hoarding Syndrome -- When Clutter Goes Out Of Control.
By Deborah Branscum
Saving stuff is normal. Sometimes, though, it can go too far.
http://www.rd.com/content/openContent.do?contentId=34091

The Mid Week News/Northern Illinois, January 13, 2007
Services look for warning signs of self neglect
By Diane Strand
http://www.midweeknews.com/articles/2007/01/31/local/de%20kalb_county/dekalbcounty01.txt

AARP Magazine, Jan/Feb 2007
Conquering Clutter
By David Dudley
Comprehensive article on cleaning out as the older generation is faced with moving to smaller quarters.
References Jeanne Smith Professional organizer in the Greater SF Bay Area and R.Frosts
description of problematic cluttering.
http://www.aarpmagazine.org/lifestyle/conquer_clutter.html

ABC News, Jan 18, 2007
Squalor Syndrome: Living Happily Among, Cat, Fleas and Filth
By Susan Donaldson James
Hoarding occurs in about 1 to 2 percent of the population, according to Randy Frost, a psychology
professor at Smith College who wrote "Buried Treasures," a self-help book for hoarders.
About 10 percent of hoarders display the rarer Diogenes syndrome.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2799460&page=1

ABC News, January 16, 2007
Medical Mystery : Compulsive Hoarding
By Cecile Bouchardeau
A Psychological Compulsion to Save Everything, Even When It Ruins Your Life
See Prime Time: Medical Mysteries
http://www.abcnews.go.com/Health/story?id=2790669&page=1

oprah.com, 2006
By Julie Morgenstern
Professional Organizers What Causes Your Clutter?
Take the quiz and click on Home >Organizing for lots of organizing tips.
http://www2.oprah.com/foodhome/home/housekeeping/
home_julie_clutter_quiz.jhtml

Utah Deseret Morning News, December 18, 2006
Hoarders just can't let go. Fear of loss may drive those with disorder to shop and stash
By Elaine Jarvik
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650215920,00.html

NorthJersey.com, December 17, 2006
When neighbor has a hoarder disorder by Virginia Rohan, Staff Writer.
http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk3NDAmZmdiZWw3Zjd
2cWVlRUV5eTcwMzczMTQmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXky