If the only thing you know about people with
#HoardingDisorder is something from
#RealityTV, I strongly encourage you to learn the actual reality.
I'm no expert on the
#diagnostic side but my understanding of the condition and it's history in the relevant
#medical #literature is that hoarding was once considered a manifestation(?) of
#OCD, but over the years experts noted a key distinguishing factor for hoarding vs OCD in particular:
When people with OCD are engaging in a repetitive behaviour (eg: excessive handwashing) they feel terrible about it. They want desperately to stop *in the moment* but cannot do so.
People with hoarding disorder, OTOH, feel good, perhaps even fabulous, in the moment(s) of acquiring new things. The bad feeling only comes after and/or when trying to de-accumulate.
And a full-abstinence, AA-type approach cannot work, as people NEED to aquire things to survive: groceries don't buy themselves, after all! 😐
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#differentiation
#difference
#characteristic
