What Is Hoarding Disorder?
4. Reasons For Hoarding
Patients with hoarding disorder can give a variety of reasons for wanting to hold on to possessions. One reason they can give is that they don’t want anything to go to waste, and they may feel that even worthless items might be needed in the future.
People with the condition will also claim that items have a certain emotional value to them, even if they have played little significance in the patient’s life. Some will also claim to feel safer when they have their possessions around them. Reasons that the patient will give for wanting to hold on to things will nearly always be irrational.
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