Hoarding Disorder

Between 2 and 5 percent of adults live with hoarding disorder, and it is estimated that up to five percent of the global population displays symptoms. You might feel alone...but you’re not. Perhaps you’ve tried to tackle the clutter in your home before but it just feels too overwhelming. Maybe you feel out of control: you know there’s a problem, but you don’t know where to start. In Hoarding Disorder Help: 15 Minimalist Steps to Help You Declutter, you’re given the tools you need to learn and succeed.

While the world seems to be in love with the idea of tiny houses and minimalism, many of us simply can't purge it all and start from nothing. Yet a home with too much stuff is difficult to maintain, so where do we begin? Add in paralyzing emotional attachments and constant life challenges, and it can feel almost impossible to make real decluttering progress.

The truth is, if you are suffering from limitations because of your hoarding habits and haven't been able to change, it's because you are lacking an effective strategy and understanding of where your hoarding is coming from and why it is so hard to stop. This book goes into the causes and risk factors of hoarders, signs and symptoms of a compulsive hoarder, and a step-by-step strategy that will help you free yourself from your addiction and help you take control of your life.

Hoarding is a behavioral problem consisting of clutter, difficulty discarding items, and excessive buying or acquiring. If you or a loved one has hoarding disorder, this book can help. Written by scientists and practitioners who are leaders in studying and treating hoarding disorder, this book outlines a program of skill-building, learning to think about possessions in a different way, and gradual challenges to help people manage their clutter and their lives. It also provides useful information for family and friends of people who hoard, as they struggle to understand and help.

Do you wish a decluttering expert could come alongside you to help tackle specific roadblocks that always derail your decluttering journey? Dana K. White, self-proclaimed recovering slob and author of Organizing for the Rest of Us and Decluttering at the Speed of Life, is here to help with her original audio series, Decluttering Deep Dives.

The Hoarder in You provides practical advice for decluttering and organizing, including how to tame the emotional pull of acquiring additional things, make order out of chaos by getting a handle on clutter, and create an organizational system that reduces stress and anxiety. Dr. Zasio also shares some of the most serious cases of hoarding that she’s encountered, and explains how we can learn from these extreme examples - no matter where we are on the hoarding continuum.

Inspired by The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning, this book will light a fire under your untidy ass with humor and helpful organizing tips that you’ll actually want to use. Like a delightfully foul-mouthed best friend, this book dishes out the funny, unpretentious advice you need to hear most. You’ll discover how to deal with your sh*t like there’s no tomorrow, live in the moment without the f*cking mess, and make your life and your eventual death a hell of a lot easier.

Do you wish a decluttering expert could come alongside you to help tackle specific roadblocks that always derail your decluttering journey? Dana K. White, self-proclaimed recovering slob and author of Organizing for the Rest of Us and Decluttering at the Speed of Life, is here to help with her original audio series, Decluttering Deep Dives.

A houseful of clutter may not be the only reason people pack on extra pounds, but research proves that it plays a big role. A recent study showed that people with super-cluttered homes were 77 percent more likely to be overweight or obese! In Lose the Clutter, Lose the Weight, organizing guru Peter Walsh comes to the rescue with a simple six-week plan to help listeners.

Do you wish a decluttering expert could come alongside you to help tackle specific roadblocks that always derail your decluttering journey? Self-proclaimed recovering slob and author Dana K. White is here to help with her original audio series, Decluttering Deep Dives. Identity Clutter dives into these common struggles: Addressing sentimental items; Defining how you use your spaces; Navigating your emotional ties to stuff you needed in the past (but maybe don’t need now); and Deciding what to do with stuff you’re keeping for the future.

What possesses someone to save every scrap of paper thats ever come into his home? What compulsions drive a woman like Irene, whose hoarding cost her her marriage? Or Ralph, whose imagined uses for castoff items like leaky old buckets almost lost him his house?

Hoarding disorder can be classified from mild to severe in some cases it may not have a much adverse effect on your life while in other instances it seriously affects your life and people around you. Many people with this disorder at first see it as a normal behavior making treatment challenging. So if you are a hoarder or someone close to you, then this audiobook is going to help you to know about the symptoms, complications, treatments, and much more about this disorder.

In this era of mass consumption, we are all drowning in 'stuff', despite our best efforts to keep on top of the clutter that collects in our homes, our office spaces and even our cars. All this clutter causes us mental anguish. However, as we all know, throwing things away can be difficult - it clashes with the values instilled in us from an early age of not wasting things, reusing items and keeping things 'for a rainy day'. Simply put, we feel guilty about getting rid of things. Enter Nagisa Tatsumi and her bold suggestion - that it's okay to throw stuff away.

Hoarding: What Everyone Needs to Know demystifies this complex problem, what it looks like and why it may develop and how it can be treated. With their combined expertise in psychological treatments for hoarding and community interventions, Drs. Steketee and Bratiotis explain how to understand hoarding as a mental illness, describing the disorder in layman's terms and explaining the various facets and manifestations of the behavior.

Conquer the Clutter offers hope to anyone affected by hoarding. Real-life vignettes, combined with easy-to-use assessment and intervention tools, support those who hoard - and those who care about them.

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.

Somehow you find shopping almost addictive and can't help yourself but then, your great purchases soon mount up and you find you have spent quite a bit of money? What are the signs of overspending? What types of buyers exist, do you know? This audiobook makes a great gift and can be listened to from any section or sequentially. These days, the focus is completely on consumerism, and this can make it hard for those who simply like to browse and buy. This audiobook will provide proven insights into shopaholic spending sprees and how to stop, get out of debt, and save money.

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.

Realistic advice from Zoë Kim, author of the popular minimalism blog The Minimalist Plate, offers guidance and support based on her continued experience of incorporating the principles of minimalism into her family life. With Minimalism for Families you’ll find everything you need to begin incorporating the principles of minimalism today.

This box set includes the most powerful set of audiobooks that will help you declutter and organize your home. Even if you've never been able to declutter, you can easily become the most organized person you know. Don’t miss out on what is one of the freshest methods of organizing every aspect of your life!