Hoarding Disorder
Compulsive hoarding, also known as hoarding disorder, is a behavioral pattern characterized by excessive acquisition of and an inability or unwillingness to discard large quantities of objects that cover the living areas of the home and cause significant distress or impairment.
Cluster Number:
Wiki Number: W095
Diagnosis: Hoarding Disorder
US Patients: 2-5%
World Patients:
Sex Ratio:
Age Onset: Ages 11-15
Brain Area: anterior ventromedial prefrontal and cingulate cortices or anterior cingulate cortes and insula
Symptoms: excessive acquisition and inability to discard items covering living areas; may create injuries and adverse effects on others
Progression: frequently hoarded: books or animals; many hoarders do not recognize it as a problem
Causes: genetic and stressful life experiences; seeing human-like qualities in objects – and over-value them;
Medications: monoamine uptake inhibitors and antidepressants have shown some positive effects
Therapies: CBT-counseling which addresses motivations for collecting – and for retaining. Home visits help counselors adapt.
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- Cognitive impairment in hoarding disorder: a systematic reviewby Bárbara P Stumpf on April 28, 2022
CONCLUSION: Except for categorization skills, the cognitive performance in HD patients does not seem to be impaired when compared with that in controls. Further work is needed to explore social cognition and the impact of emotion in cognitive performance in HD patients.
- Profiling Hoarding Within the Five-Factor Model of Personality and Self-Determination Theoryby Jolene Chan on April 27, 2022
This study investigated the dispositional profile associated with hoarding symptoms by applying a personality and motivational trait perspective. A community sample oversampling high hoarding symptoms (N = 649, ages 18-74 years) completed an online questionnaire assessing hoarding, the five-factor model of personality, and general causality orientations drawn from self-determination theory. Personality aspects (10 traits), a level of measurement intermediate to factors (5 traits) and facets (30...
- Clozapine-related obsessive-compulsive symptoms and their impact on wellbeing: a naturalistic longitudinal studyby Katherine Parkin on April 26, 2022
CONCLUSIONS: Given the frequent occurrence of OCS and their negative impact on wellbeing, we encourage clinicians to routinely assess and treat OCS in patients who are taking clozapine.
- Self-reporting of psychiatric illness in an online patient registry is a good indicator of the existence of psychiatric illnessby Luis Sordo Vieira on April 18, 2022
Online registries offer many advantages for research, including the ability to efficiently assess large numbers of individuals and identify potential participants for clinical trials and genetic studies. Of particular interest is the validity and utility of self-endorsement of psychiatric disorders in online registries, which, while increasingly more common, remain understudied. We thus assessed the comparability of prevalence estimated from self-endorsement of psychiatric disorders in one such...