DSM-V: Hoarding New Mental-Disorder Diagnoses

Hoarding disorder is the name of a psychiatric condition that produces symptoms such as the compulsive urge to acquire unusually large amounts of possessions and an inability to voluntarily get rid of those possessions, even when they have no practical usefulness or monetary value. Until recently, mental health guidelines in the United States viewed hoarding as a specific form of another condition called obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). However, in line with recent findings from a number of reputable studies, the American Psychiatric Assn. designated the disorder as a distinct form of mental illness in May 2013.​

Ah what the hell do they know?

 

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Not a bloody, danged, damned, deviled thing..........

 

Fast forward to the world of collecting, where folks ain't judged by their nomenclature,adjunct. and excess junk......

 

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It's about time. I'm mildly OCD and I have zero interest in hoarding. In fact, just the opposite: I'm obsessive-compulsive about getting rid of things I don't use/don't need.

 

My lady was been telling me I have mental problems for almost 40 years. It happens every time I show her a coin I bought.

 

Does their manual have a diagnosis for No-Load Priest-Class who write manuals?

 

https://nationalpsychologist.com/2007/01/the-psychology-of-collecting/10904.html

Dated article "The psychology of collecting"

 

It's about time hoarding was recognized as distinct from OCD. Hoarding is driven by emotional/sentimental attachment, which is not the case with OCD.
That being said, I have met many collectors who colloquially refer to themselves as hoarders, but have yet to meet one that is a hoarder in the clinical sense.

 

So that's what's wrong with me. I'll be sure and let my wife know. She'll love it as I collect and have (hoard) so much that she thinks had little to no value.

Do they list a cure? Is am I doomed?

 

I have known one hoarder in my life and she would not get rid of anything, not just one type of thing suck as coins.

 

One guy told me he had acquired a lot of silver before the big bull run in 2011. He said he couldn't sell when it was in the $40's because he was so attached to it. Ouch.

 

I am so OCD that I call it CDO...the letters need to be in alphabetical order...!

 

Ha! Not a Hoarder! I'm an Archiver!
I acquire things, put in boxes, write on them....then store.....archive.......
Maybe I'm hoarding boxes of stored things...........

 

If you have money and the items you amass are valuable, it's called a collection. If you don't have money and the items you amass have little-to-no value, it's called a hoard. Likewise, a rich person is called eccentric; whereas, a poor man is called crazy. Everything is relative.

 

What they failed to mention is that of all the people whoever lived, and all the people alive now, and all the people who will come in the future,....we're all a little "off"!!!

 

I get nervous every time my wife gets the mail before me, MORE COINS? uh oh. Sorry to say I think I'm addicted, My daughter keeps telling me I'm gonna give her to much work when I kick the bucket I tell her she'll have enough coins and currency to open an ebay store. Glad I won't be around when they open the safe ,closets draws etc. YEH I"M A HOARDER

 

Its called Fred-G-Sanford-itis

Ya big dummy

 

Every one of those psychologists had to be crazy enough to submit to treatment by a psychiatrist until they got a paper saying they were cured. As they pursued their education they chose a subject and Piled it Higher and Deeper until a panel determined that they should be awarded a PHD. If they invent a condition or a psychosis they are in line for federal funding to TREAT it. That's great work if you have the stomach for it and can suppress your gag reflex.

 

I can't afford the psych, because I'm spending too much hoarding.