Hi, and welcome to this week’s blog post on our series on Hoarding. The last couple of posts, we have been preparing you for taking this important step to support your loved one. In the second post, we talked about planning the steps before staging the intervention, and making sure it is the right way […]
Hi, welcome to this week’s blog post on hoarding. We are focusing on staging an intervention, and to keep it simple, we will be breaking it down into 4 simple steps. We have previously discussed (in step 1) how as a family member or as a friend, you can prepare for the intervention. The second […]
Hi, welcome to this week’s blog post on hoarding. Our next topic is about staging an intervention and we will be breaking it down into 4 steps. This post is dedicated to the relatives and friends of hoarders, which are usually the ones that are aware of the problem, sometimes a long time before the […]
Hi, and welcome to our series on Hoarding – practical and psychological support. In this week’s blog post we will be looking at other mental health problems which were mentioned here: possible causes (and consequences) for hoarding. Mental health issues aren’t straighforward to spot, and neither is it straightforward to pinpoint their causes, consequences, or […]
Hi, and welcome to this week’s blog post, which is a continuation of last week’s post (focusing on the individual). In this post, we will focus on the possible causes (and consequences) for hoarding and understanding that everybody is different and there could be many reasons as to why the person is hoarding. Different people […]
Hi, and welcome to this week’s post on hoarding. We’ll be talking about some causes of hoarding (next week’s post) and why focusing on the individual is important. As a therapist, I (Karin) am aware of the medical model, which focuses on making a diagnosis in order to help the person. I work with the […]
Hi, and welcome to this week’s blog post on hoarding. In this post Stacey and I will be focusing on 3 consequences of hoarding on the person’s well-being. Many aspects of well-being can be impacted when someone has too much clutter and keeps acquiring material belongings to meet a partly unconscious need. We’ll start by […]
Hi, and welcome to this edition of our Hoarding mini-series. In this week’s post we’ll be talking about what hoarding is, from a psychological and a practical perspective. The psychological effects of hoarding are intertwined with the more tangible aspects of hoarding. For example, when someone that’s hoarding collects more possessions, they have an emotional […]
Hi, and welcome to this week’s blog post, where I’d like to introduce a new partnership with Stacey Sabido from Serenity for You. In these posts, we want to raise awareness and provide informative posts about hoarding, their effects – both practical and psychological. We will be working holistically, which is why we have joined […]