Hoarding Disorder
Hoarding Disorder is a topic covered in the Johns Hopkins Psychiatry Guide.
To view the entire topic, please sign in or purchase a subscription.
Official website of the Johns Hopkins Antibiotic (ABX), HIV, Diabetes, and Psychiatry Guides, powered by Unbound Medicine. Johns Hopkins Guide App for iOS, iPhone, iPad, and Android included. Explore these free sample topics:
-- The first section of this topic is shown below --
DEFINITION
- Persistent difficulty discarding personal possessions, even those of apparently little value, leading to substantial clutter that inhibits the normal use of space for basic functions like cooking, cleaning, moving around the house, and sleeping; the symptoms cause clinically significant distress and/or impairment in functioning.[1]
- See figure illustrating compulsive hoarding.
-- To view the remaining sections of this topic, please sign in or purchase a subscription --
DEFINITION
- Persistent difficulty discarding personal possessions, even those of apparently little value, leading to substantial clutter that inhibits the normal use of space for basic functions like cooking, cleaning, moving around the house, and sleeping; the symptoms cause clinically significant distress and/or impairment in functioning.[1]
- See figure illustrating compulsive hoarding.
There's more to see -- the rest of this entry is available only to subscribers.