Early Signs and Causes of Hoarding Hoarding rarely begins overnight. For many, early warning signs show up in adolescence and gradually intensify over time. What might start as a simple hesitation to ...

A report published earlier this year by the US Senate Special Committee on Aging is calling for a national coordinated response to what the authors claim may be an emerging hoarding disorder (HD) ...

"But it's not a lifestyle choice, it's a mental health issue." Hoarding was recognised as a complex mental health condition in 2013. Between two and five per cent of the UK population is estimated to ...

Do you ever wonder what causes people to live in hoarded conditions? Is it nature versus nurture? Through my clinical practice specializing in the intervention and treatment of Hoarding Disorder over ...

Amanda Uhle’s recent book Destroy This House (Summit Books, 2025) opens with an unsettling image of her parents’ home: “The garage in their Pontiac home was filled with food, much of it perishable.

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 ...