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Title: Hoarding


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Hoarding
  • Neil Carr
  • Chief Executive

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  • Compulsive Hoarding What is it!
  • A difficulty throwing anything away

3
  • But More than That
  • Severe difficulties with decision making
  • Perfectionism
  • Task avoidance

4
  • It is Distinctive
  • Sufferers have unique deficits in problem solving
    and information processing.
  • Sufferers have a distinct behavioural profile and
    a characteristic pattern of symptoms and
    functional disability
  • It requires a different treatment approach from
    that used for other types of OCD.

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  • A Recent Phenomena
  • Likely to have existed throughout time and across
    cultures
  • Relatively recent subject for scientific scrutiny
  • Recent press/media interest

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  • The Future for Hoarders!
  • Not hopeless
  • More learnt about hoarding in the past ten years
    than ever known before.
  • Increasing understanding of hoarding
  • More effective available treatments
  • More research being undertaken
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