Hoarding Disorder

From New York Times bestselling author of Symptoms of Withdrawal and Moments of Clarity Christopher Kennedy Lawford comes a book that will save lives. For most of his early life, Christopher Kennedy Lawford battled life-threatening drug and alcohol addictions. Now in recovery for more than 25 years, he works to effect change and raise global awareness of addiction in nonprofit, private, and government circles, serving as the goodwill ambassador for drug dependence treatment and care for the United Nations.

Many people who hoard understand the extent of their problem and are open to help. This book is not for them. Digging Out is for the concerned and frustrated friends and family members of people who do not fully accept the magnitude of their hoarding problem and refuse help from others. If you have a friend or loved one with a hoarding problem and are seeking a way to guide him or her to a healthier, safer way of life, this book is for you.

This practical guide is designed to provide the fundamental aspects of hoarding disorders and simple, yet effective treatments for hoarding. Let's face it, you cannot heal your hoarding condition before you understand it and know of the help for hoarding that is available to you.

You are a successful, intelligent person with so much to feel good about. But when you are confronted with the omnipresent clutter in your life, you feel like a failure. No matter how hard you try to get organized, you can’t figure out how to make the clutter go away for good. You can tell that there’s something bigger going on, but you have no idea what it is. You’re stuck. The good news is, you absolutely can learn how to free yourself from clutter.

In Possessed, Rebecca R. Falkoff asks how hoarding - once a paradigm of economic rationality - came to be defined as a mental illness. Hoarding is unique among the disorders included in the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5 because its diagnosis requires the existence of a material entity: the hoard. Possessed therefore considers the hoard as an aesthetic object produced by clashing perspectives about the meaning or value of objects.

Discover long term minimalist strategies that will get your home cleaned and organized in just seven days! Are you feeling stressed and overwhelmed with all the clutter in your life? Do you sometimes get the horrible impression that someday you will drown under all the unnecessary stuff piling in your life? Yet despite all your efforts the clutter always come back doesn't it. Well not anymore! With this guide you will finally have the secret weapon you need to live a life free of clutter!

Minimalism is tied in with living a purposeful, essential, and satisfying life through settling on conscious decisions. Minimalism backs off life and liberates us from this cutting edge agitation to live quicker. It discovers opportunity to separate. It tries to keep just the basics. It tries to evacuate the trivial and keep the noteworthy. Furthermore, in doing as such, it esteems the purposeful undertakings that enhance life.

Judy Batalion grew up in a house filled with endless piles of junk and layers of crumbs and dust; suffocated by tuna fish cans, old papers and magazines, swivel chairs, tea bags, clocks, cameras, printers, VHS tapes, ballpoint pens - obsessively gathered and stored by her hoarder mother. The first chance she had, she escaped the clutter to create a new identity - one made of order, regimen, and clean white walls. Until, one day, she found herself enmeshed in life's biggest chaos: motherhood.

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Minimalism is not just a series of actions but also a total mind-set shift. It recognises that modern-day abundance has not increased our level of happiness - in fact we are less happy than generations before despite having more - and it argues that embracing less will allow us to live more fully. This handbook gives us the tools to achieve this complete life-changing mental shift, teaching us how to search for items and thoughts that add value to our lives and how to get rid of nonessential physical and mental clutter.

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Minimalism is a way of life that allows you to become happy with less, freeing yourself from the consumerist world that we all live in. It helps to relieve stress and anxiety, as well as stave off depression. When you live a minimalist lifestyle, it lets you look for happiness within, instead of trying to fill the void with material objects. It helps boost your immune system, simplify your life, increase your productivity, and helps you become a happier, healthier you, in no time at all. You won't have an issue taking the steps needed to commit and maintain a minimalist lifestyle.

If you’ve always wanted to start living like a minimalist, but you never knew how to get started, then look no further. This book won't focus on WHY adopt the minimalist lifestyle, but on the HOW because let's be honest you already know what minimalism is and why it's beneficial. If you’re ready to discover how to declutter, organize, simplify and free your family from the modern world of more-is-more, then read on and prepare for change.

Definitely not for the faint-hearted or the easily offended, The Spiritual Slob is, perhaps, the most entertaining and straight-forward book of its kind - the perfect antidote to those of us who are tired of flapping our wings so hard to get to heaven.

Most of us know the weight of too much stuff. We can avoid it for a while, but when it's time to move house or reorganize, we can't escape facing our clutter. Your excess stuff can hold you back and make you sick. Having stuff we don't use or enjoy is a burden, a waste of money, and importantly, it doesn't spark joy. If your rooms, closets, and surfaces are filled with clutter, all your unneeded possessions can get in the way of a full experience of life as it was meant to be lived.

Is your world stuffed with clutter? Discover a simple method to get organized and take back your life! Overwhelmed by the constant pile of stuff that's turned your every day into total chaos? Do you dream of getting organized but you have no idea where to start? Author and decluttering coach Christine D. Shuck has over a decade of experience working with clients to accomplish their organizational goals. Now she'll teach you her step-by-step method to go from mess to success.

Is your life crowded with stuff but unfulfilling? Understanding what brings value to your life and what doesn’t helps you release the objects that have cluttered up your home for maybe years. Clearing your physical space can help you attain more mental clarity as well and allow you to clear out your mental baggage as you take out the physical trash.

Minimalism is simply removing anything that does not align with your goals and passions. The Minimalist Mentality will teach you how you can actually accomplish more with the fundamental principle of minimalism: less.

Do you want to live a stress free, happier life? The pursuit of materialistic possessions is never satisfied. Someone will always have something newer or something better, but there is a better and happier way to live. Becker Brown shows you how to use minimalism to declutter, simplify, and organize your home and life!

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