From the Daily Beast: 

 Hoarding has long been considered a symptom of obsessive-compulsive disorder, but it will get its own clinical definition in the DSM-V. As of May 22, hoarding disorder will be defined as “persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of their actual value.” According to the APA, hoarding is defined by its harmful emotional, social, and financial effects both on the hoarder and the hoarder’s family members. Some 4 million people in the U.S. are believed to suffer from the disorder.                

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Think these risks are overhyped? This story comes from WPXI in Pittsburgh:

PITTSBURGH — 

Firefighters battled smoke and flames at an abandoned store front late Thursday night in Homewood.

The fire was reported at a building on Frankstown Avenue about 11:30 p.m.

Assistant Fire Chief Thomas Cook said garbage and other junk inside the building made it difficult for crews to extinguish the flames.

“It looked like hoarding conditions, therefore we kept all the firefighters out and attacked the fire from the outside,” Cook said.

If you know someone who is hoarding, try to get them help as soon as possible. Green Clean Junk Removal Services provides hoarders junk removal.

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According to USA Today, it took Hurricane Sandy to uncover a hoarding problem:

When Hurricane Sandy dumped its fury on New Jersey last October, it also exposed a problem many say has been growing here for years: hoarding.

“Usually hoarders won’t allow people in their houses,” said David Haggerty, director of senior services for Family Service of Morris County, a Morristown-based human services non-profit.

“But after the storm hit, many had no choice but to allow professionals like fire and emergency workers access,” he added. “So a lot of cases of hoarding came out of the woodwork.”

 And the worst part is that now hoarding is slowing down disaster clean up efforts.

Two Family Service intensive senior support care managers, Susan Donald and Laura Wrublevski, explained the stalemate: the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) is asking hoarders to clean out their stuff so it can bring in people to remediate mold and other flood-related conditions.

“At the same time,” Wrublevski said, “there isn’t support to help hoarders sit, sort and pare down their hoards.”

“That’s the problem right now,” Donald explained. “FEMA, or other groups willing to help people affected by Sandy, have a role to play. Their role is not to clean up a home that has been collecting for 30 or 40 years. Their role is to take care of the damage as a result of Sandy.”

If you, a loved one, or a tenant need help cleaning up after a hoarder call Green Clean Junk Removal Services. Green Clean Junk Removal Services offers hoarder junk removal services to both Los Angeles and New York (including areas of New York affected by Sandy). We can also help direct you towards counseling to deal with the underlying mental illness that causes hoarding.

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Hoarding has gotten a lot of attention in the past couple of years thanks to reality television. But Green Clean Junk Removal Services has been dealing with the problem of hoarding for years. We have worked with landlords, family members, and hoarders in treatment to clean up a hoard pile in a home. 

Hoarding is a serious mental condition that affects everyone that comes in contact with a hoarder. Hoarding ruins relationships, ruins lives, and can destroy a home or an apartment. When used in conjunction with treatment and therapy, our hoarders junk removal service helps those suffering from hoarding disorders regain control of their lives. Green Clean Junk Removal Services can clean out a hoarder’s home and return it to a livable state.

Green Clean Junk Removal Services also offers these specialized hoarder clean out services to landlords who recently had to evict a tenant for hoarding.

If you suspect a friend, loved one, or tenant is hoarding we strongly encourage you to talk openly and frankly about their hoarding problem. And encourage them to seek treatment. Untreated hoarding only gets worse with time.

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