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.

Discover how to apply the minimalist mindset to every aspect of your life by changing the way you think about your home, career, relationships, family, and money. The Minimalist Way will help you take it one step at a time with simple exercises and activities. Ease into minimalism at your own pace and learn how to let go.

We live in the "age of anxiety" where one in five people report feeling anxious most of the time. It’s easy to think that other people have it worse, especially when your anxiety hasn’t been diagnosed, which may lead you to ignore your feelings. There are simple, practical solutions you can incorporate into your routine to reduce your anxiety levels and focus on enjoying life again. In Anxiety Monster: How to Manage & Live with Anxiety, you’ll find everything you need to reduce your symptoms and make your anxiety more manageable.

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.

The author has spent her life helping the chronically cluttered and disorganized change their bad habits and adopt new positive ones. In her trademark, straightforward, and often humorous approach, Mary Carlomagno takes the listener through thought-provoking exercises to discover the real reasons as to why we clutter. Crush Your Clutter is based on her work as a nationally recognized media expert and sought-after public speaker.

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.

Author and YouTuber Zoey Arielle opens up about her struggle with loving all the things in life we bring home. A hoarder in disguise, Arielle has mastered the tools needed to embrace simplicity and the minimalist philosophy. Life can stress anyone out. So, by embracing minimalism, you’ll be saying good-bye to stress and everything that you never needed anyway. Discover a greater focus and true freedom as you live your new life with a real sense of gratitude for everything and everyone around you.

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Millions of Americans struggle with severe clutter and hoarding. Barry Yourgrau is one of them. Behind the door of his Queens apartment, Yourgrau's life is, quite literally, chaos. Confronted by his exasperated girlfriend, he embarks on a heartfelt and too often uproarious project to take control of his disorderly apartment and life, and to explore the wider world of collecting, clutter, and extreme hoarding.

Molto di quello che chiamiamo disordine è solamente un ordine più profondo che si manifesta secondo schemi non matematicamente prevedibili, né logicamente programmabili. La vita stessa, nella sua complessità, rientra in questa categoria. Ecco allora un manuale pratico per disordinati che hanno bisogno di riconoscere il valore, il pregio e i vantaggi del loro modo di affrontare le cose, e di prevenirne quegli eccessi che invece nuocerebbero al proprio - e altrui - benessere.

Spring clean your life with this practical, achievable guide to decluttering from the British Marie Kondo. Wardrobes bursting with unworn clothes. Boxes full of obsolete chargers and neglected children's toys. A dresser jammed full of mismatched socks... Sound familiar? Many of us feel increasingly overwhelmed by the sheer amount of stuff packed into our homes. Being organised at home doesn't just mean always knowing where you left the remote; it means being able to face the world with a clear mind and increased energy. It all starts at home.

Discover what minimalist living is about in Minimalism, and start changing your life where it matters most: Your mindset. Then, change your home to one that is uncluttered using my PURGE ideology which you will discover in Declutter. Everything you need for a minimal living is right here, but discover the strategies that will help you stick to your minimalist journey in the audiobook Stop Procrastinating.

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?

Unless extremely “hippie” parents raised you, you’ll be accustomed to the consumerist lifestyle we all know. We are prompted to buy that new iPhone or flashy pair of sneakers at every turn! But these possessions quickly engulf us if we’re not careful. Minimalist living is disconnecting from distractions, excess material wealth & unhealthy relationships & reconnecting to what’s important. To live a more freeing & purposeful existence. You are allowed to do that. In fact, its imperative for your mental well-being.

We work to the point of extreme exhaustion. Everyone is just too rushed, hurried, and stressed. We alleviate our stress by shopping for more stuff, binge eating, and engaging in time-wasting activities. We fill our lives with needless activities, relationships, and clutter. This makes us lose sense of who we really are and what’s important to us. This is the reason why the Japanese people have developed a lifestyle that strips away the inessential things in their lives. It’s called minimalism. In this audiobook, you’ll hear proven strategies on how to practice minimalism.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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"?