Hoarding Presents a Particular Issue for the Fire ServiceAt Hoarding Help Central, we are well aware that compulsive hoarding behavior presents a particular issue for many fire departments. After all, the excessive accumulation of items in the homes of hoarders...

What We Now Know About Animal HoardingWith compulsive hoarding disorder becoming the subject of a lot of research and officially being classified as its own disorder in the DSM-V as of 2013, we have come to understand much more about compulsive hoarding disorder in...

Do You Have a Hoarding Problem?Hoarding disorder is characterized as an anxiety disorder in which a person fails to discard a large number of items regardless of their perceived value. Approximately 2 to 6 percent of the adult population in the United States is...

Taking a Collaborative Community Approach to Compulsive Hoarding DisorderAt Hoarding Help Central, we are well aware that compulsive hoarding disorder presents a big issue for families, neighbors, and communities. As such a large problem for an individual to have that...

Examining Hoarding Symptoms in Young People Many of us have been made aware of compulsive hoarding disorder thanks to popular television shows like Hoarders and Hoarding: Buried Alive. While these shows portray individuals with heavily cluttered homes that undergo a...

Hoarding Help Central’s Guide to Pathological HoardingAlthough compulsive hoarding disorder has long been considered nothing more than a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder, we here at Hoarding Help Central know that compulsive hoarding occurs in a variety of...