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Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding: Why You Save and How You Can Stop
Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding Why You Save and How You Can Stop Author:Fugen Neziroglu, Jerome Bubrick, Jose A. Yaryura-Tobias This book, the first ever written for savers and their families, provides an overview of compulsive hoarding and how it relates to obsessive-compulsive disorder. It discusses hoarding broadly, offering readers perspectives on the physical, behavioral, and value-oriented aspects of the condition. Readers can use its assessment tools to help decid... more »e why they or their loved one hoards. Skill-building exercises help readers determine how to beat the hoarding problem by addressing issues that often underlie compulsive saving. Even though this is fundamentally a self-help book, it contains a frank discussion about the need for professional help in some hoarding cases, how to find it, and what medications have been proven effective for savers.« less