Hoarding

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Hoarding

• Neil Carr
• Chief Executive

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

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

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• 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