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Old Jun 05, 2017, 12:31 AM
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Anyone else have any hoarding tendencies?
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Old Jun 05, 2017, 12:38 AM
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Whoa. Read this article about hoarding, it can be attached to PTSD.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...eaction-trauma
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I'm like the anti-hoarder. BUT both my parents have hoarding tendencies and I grew up with all that clutter and mess around me. So now clutter and mess reminds me of my childhood and I freak out.
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Old Jun 05, 2017, 12:54 AM
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I'm like the anti-hoarder. BUT both my parents have hoarding tendencies and I grew up with all that clutter and mess around me. So now clutter and mess reminds me of my childhood and I freak out.
My mom is a hoarder as well. I'm not like those shows on tv...yet but it could get there and I'm hoping not . Congrats on keeping a tidy house. Are you for hire ?
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My mom is a hoarder as well. I'm not like those shows on tv...yet but it could get there and I'm hoping not.
I am exactly like the tv shows.

My mom is a hoarder. My maternal grandmother was also a hoarder.

I am reading a book, the life-changing magic of tidying up. It has some helpful ideas.
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My mom is a hoarder as well. I'm not like those shows on tv...yet but it could get there and I'm hoping not . Congrats on keeping a tidy house. Are you for hire ?
LOL You wouldn't want to hire me because I constantly throw away things I later need because I'm so anti clutter. IT has gotten me into a bind more than once.
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I am exactly like the tv shows.

My mom is a hoarder. My maternal grandmother was also a hoarder.

I am reading a book, the life-changing magic of tidying up. It has some helpful ideas.
Why do we hoard though? Is it genetic? Why would people with PTSD find hoarding beneficial?
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LOL You wouldn't want to hire me because I constantly throw away things I later need because I'm so anti clutter. IT has gotten me into a bind more than once.
Oh crap LOL Disregard that last then LOL I think I would be as irrational as those people on tv about someone else coming in and throwing my stuff away. I'm trying to do better though.
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Seems like most of my life is avoidance activities, so maybe this is one as well. Have to remember to ask the T about this. This would be so much easier if there were not so many appendages to CPTSD. It's like trying to calm an octopus.
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Why do we hoard though? Is it genetic? Why would people with PTSD find hoarding beneficial?
http://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/2011/06/...ion-to-trauma/

I just now came across this. I have not read it yet.

Hoarding is now a separate disorder in DSM.

I have had hoarding tendencies for a very long time preceding my trauma in 1999-2000 that caused my ptsd.
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http://trauma.blog.yorku.ca/2011/06/...ion-to-trauma/

I just now came across this. I have not read it yet.

Hoarding is now a separate disorder in DSM.

I have had hoarding tendencies for a very long time preceding my trauma in 1999-2000 that caused my ptsd.
Good article, thanks for sharing.
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