-
Period: to
hoarding
-
Hoarding Becomes Noticed Due to Scientific Study
When people can't get rid of any of their garbage, they may be hoarders. It is estimated that there about 1 million American hoarders. Now a new study of the brain could lead to the cuase of hoarding. -
SRI Medication Proven Effective in Treating Compulsive Hoarding Patient
SRI medication (antidepressants) is proven successful on some hoarding patients. It was first tested because of its effectiveness on patients with trichotillomania (obsessive grooming) and Tourette Syndrome. -
Medical Mystery: Hoarding
Doctors now believe that hoarding may be genetic, or may be caused be a deformity/tumor in the brain. -
Hoarding is Now Recognized as a Mental Disorder
Dr. David Tolin told the courtant that hoarding is quite different from OCD, because it is not affected by drugs or therapy, which are effective on people who have OCD. -
Lazy or Diseased: What's the Difference?
There is much debate over whether a person is hoarding because there is something medically wrong with them, or just because they're too lazy to throw anything out. -
Other Medical Connections are Discovered
In February of 2008, psychiatrists noticed a large number of depression- and dementia- related patients coming into hospitals for hoarding. This lead to more research being conducted about possible hoarding connections; eventually it was discovered that dementia, depression, ADD, and ADHD, among others, are more causes of hoarding. -
Women's Children Taken Away due to Condition of House
A womens children are taken to near by foster home because of her house's condtions. -
Hoarding Poses Serious Safety Risks
After 3 hoarders and 12 innocent bystanders died in a Manhatten apartment on March 1st, 2009, it has become more and more ovbious that hoarding has serious safety risks. Fires are easily started due to the huge quantities of dirt and paper in a hoarder's home, and when the hoarder lives in a densely-populated city or even an apartment complkex with a few other residents, hoarding can kill or injure many people. -
Hoarding Today
Today, hoarders are much easier to spot than in the past. Due to the massive number of accidents across America in the past few years that were caused by hoarders, hoarding task forces have been established in towns and cities all across the nation. New treatments are being discovered all the time, each one more effective than the last. At this rate, hoarding will soon become a thing of the past.
