Hoarding Disorder

The popularity of minimalism has grown a lot in the past years. Long before the emergence of flat design, minimalism has been playing a huge role in many people's lives. This includes the designs of many artists: sculptors, theater directors, interior designers, graphic designers, and, of course, web designers. A minimalist is someone who strives to remove much of the clutter from their lives and focus on life outside of physical possessions. The ultimate goal is to shed those things that don't matter in order to more fully pursue the things that DO matter.

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.

Ti sei mai chiesto se tutto quello che hai, tutto ciò che possiedi, sia davvero necessario nella tua vita? In un mondo in cui il consumismo bussa alla porta di continuo e le pubblicità assillanti bombardano la posta elettronica (e non solo), non si può far altro che rassegnarsi all'idea che per essere davvero felici bisogna avere una vita piena di oggetti, di cianfrusaglie, di "cose". Ma è davvero così? La nostra vita migliora se ci circondiamo di beni materiali? Quante volte ci siamo buttati nello shopping pur di non sentire certe "mancanze"?

Through her fiercely independent, yet childlike eyes, Tera allows us to enter the recesses of her guarded world. Her Aussie sister, Beth, walks with us, compassionately guiding and explaining. Tera’s life? A world of secrets. A place of shame. A lifetime of expanding mental illness. Tera moves from collector to hoarder, progressively tipped by the compulsion into a perilous world of rats and disease. As Tera repeatedly expressed through words, actions and even rage, she did not live like other people. And yet, living an ordinary life of home and family was her greatest desire.

Thinking of decluttering your home but have no idea how? Have you tried before and failed? Don’t give up, you just need to know the right systems! Want to find your stuff in less than five minutes? Putting everything where it belongs will help you save both time and money! Organizing and decluttering is your ultimate solution. This book is the complete roadmap to discovering peace in your home. Annette is a seasoned professional organizer, and she is sharing her many tips, tricks, and methods that have taken her years to master! Declutter - where do I begin?

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.