This article talked about what it means to be a hoarder and how hoarding can affect one's life who has the disorder. Hoarding isn't just a desire to keep items, but an obsession with the thought of not being able to give up items because of the value they might have for the person.
One example was a case of two Manhattan brothers, Langley and Homer Collyer, who were hoarders to an extreme point. Their apartment was filled with not just papers and garbage, but with over five grand pianos and even a Ford Model-T car, or over 170 tons of debris.
Hoarding can also vary anywhere from collecting papers, to garbage, to stray animals, and even food. My question is, what would you do if someone you knew had a hoarding problem, like the Manhattan brothers? Would you help them overcome the disorder? How do you think hoarding starts?
3 comments:
I feel like if someone has a hording problem then i would have to make sure they no that they have a serious condition. i would need to convince them that they will not lose part of their peer that gave them the gift and let them know that it is ok for them to let loose I wod love to prevent another manhattan disorder becasue no one should die for that. I think hoarding starts with your culture. some cultures keep everything and salvage all thats left.
Nick Lebron
I feel that I could help someone with a hoarding problem since I am a bit of a hoarder, myself. Although I have have never had a complusive hoarding habit and usually feel the need to throw my sentimental posessions away after hoarding them for a while, I feel like I could help someone by forcing them to do the unbearable: throw away all their belonings. Once stripped of their possessions, a hoarder may be depressed for some time, but if exposed to friendly social surroundings and a challenging environment, a hoarder can realize value in themselves and not need possessions to remind them of who they are.
-Natalia Zagula
I assume that hoarding could begin with serious abandonment issues. If someone walks out in a child's life than they might look for something to remind them and to hold onto, especially a parent or guardian, who probably played a large role in the child's life and gave him or her shelter and food and water and, of course, possessions. They learn to keep relationships alive through said possessions and that is where hoarding begins. I honestly wouldn't have any idea how to help a hoarder, it seems to me that they become stuck in their ways. I assume that I would just support them as much as any other friend or acquaintance or whoever it may be.
David Rawolle
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