MOUNT LAUREL, N.J. -
Sept. 18, 2013 -
PRLog -- Address Our Mess, an industry leader in hoarding cleanup and
clutter cleaning, have explained the different types of hoarding to help hoarders and helpers understand the condition more completely. By understanding the mental vices that cause the condition, experts hope that hoarders will be able to identify the causes of their struggles while successfully overcoming them. Their latest publication,
Types of Hoarding, delves into the details of what makes sufferers of the condition refuse to let go of the items in their home. While many types of objects are hoarded for a variety of reasons, Address Our Mess experts break down these items into five separate categories, each with their own list of dangers: · Shopping Hoarding · Food Hoarding · Garbage Hoarding · Animal Hoarding · Paper Hoarding The impacts of hoarding these different items vary depending on the situation. For instance, shopping hoarding is usually the result of a traumatic life event that has occurred which has left a sense of emptiness in a person’s life. This void is constantly being filled with items such as food, clothing, electronics and collectibles while the feeling of excitement brought on by compulsive shopping masks the pain felt from the traumatic experience. Shopping can lead to different types of the condition such as food, garbage and paper hoarding. When people start to hoard food, garbage and other biohazard dangers like bodily fluids and waste, risks are amplified exponentially. Food and garbage attract rodents, insects and other vermin. These pests will not only destroy a property by building nests, urinating and defecating, but they also carry life-threatening diseases, bacteria and parasites. Exposure to these pathogens can cause serious illness or death to a hoarder and their families. Paper hoarding can also cause physical dangers as well.
Hoarding cleanup specialists have seen a disturbing increase in the amount of cases involving hoarders being found either seriously injured or deceased beneath a collapsed pile or mound of paper or books. Paper hoarding occurs when people are unable to let go of mail, coupons, circulars, credit card offers, newspapers, books, magazines and other documents. While most modern families designate an area of the home for important documents that must be shredded to avoid identity theft, paper hoarders hold onto these documents and never let them go. The hoarding condition is usually suffered alone. Perhaps that is why more than forty percent of sufferers are found living in animal hoarding conditions with their beloved pets. This type of hoarding is arguably the most dangerous as it can endanger the lives of both hoarders and their pets. Animal hoarding cleanup specialists find living conditions so deplorable that pets are found deceased amidst piles of waste and debris. Additional insight into the challenging condition can be found in tools like the Guide for Animal Hoarders and the Official Do’s and Don’ts for Hoarding. These tools lend a new perspective to the hoarding condition.
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