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Understanding Hoarding
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A home packed with newspapers, dogs, broken toasters, or “valuable” scraps can look like a simple cleanup problem until you hear what the objects mean. Hoarding isn’t a character flaw, and it’s rarely about laziness. For many people, a pile is a memory system, a shield, or a last connection to someone they lost and trying to remove it can feel like real physical pain.
Michael sits down with Angela and Stephanie to unpack what hoarding disorder actually is, what it isn’t, and why it so often shows up alongside depression, ADHD, anxiety, OCD, and even dementia-related changes…
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