Cindy’s home has so much stuff that she can’t use certain areas. Boxes form an archipelago through her living and dining rooms. Papers blanket a large wooden table. Near a collection of scented ...

Hoarding disorder is an under-recognized serious mental illness that worsens with age. It affects 2.5% of the working-age population and 7% of older adults. That's about 715,000 Australians. People ...

Hoarding disorder is often described as if it might be “caused” by a single errant chromosome, but the trajectory of genetic research, from early linkage ...

Hoarding disorder affects around 1 in 50 (2%) of the population but remains a largely misunderstood mental health condition, said the authors of new guidance, published in the British Journal of ...

A dozen people seated around folding tables clap heartily for a beaming woman: She’s donated two 13-gallon garbage bags full of clothes, including several Christmas sweaters and a couple of pantsuits, ...

An estimated 2% to 6% of the population suffers from hoarding disorder, according to the International OCD Foundation. Researchers at Stanford Medicine are using virtual reality to help those who ...

Rehearsing alternative outcomes of discarding through imagery rescripting shows promise as a treatment strategy for people who hoard, a study by psychology researchers has shown. Rehearsing ...

Virtual reality (VR) therapy is showing promise as an effective treatment for hoarding disorder, a serious mental health condition estimated to affect approximately 2.5% of the US population. A recent ...

Madison Lovelle posts videos of her cleaning out her father's hoarded house, which she inherited after his death.