Son of a Hoarder

A visual blog about hoarding and anxiety created by things.

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The great clean up begins. We hired Move Managers to help us begin this massive effort

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A classic hoarding of expired food. 3 years past expiration date. My fathers cupboards are constantly filled with “bargain bin sale” food which are already expired on purchase. Then they further decompose in the pantry.

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Research in the last decade has confirmed that OCD and hoarding are genetically and neurologically distinct. Recent research also emphasizes that hoarders do not exclusively collect junk and are not lazy, disorganized or unclean people, even if their homes are a mess. Neuroimaging studies and case reports have revealed divergent patterns of brain activity and various cognitive peculiarities common to many hoarders: The very act of deciding what to keep and what to throw away causes them great anxiety, for instance, and they form unusually strong emotional attachments to inanimate objects.

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The garden

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My fathers bedroom

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