My mom is a hoarder. And now I'm becoming one, too.
By Ferris Jabr (Click here for the original article) If you had opened the front door of Lee Shuer's apartment in the early 2000s, you would have ...
For one Aurora, Ill. resident, his hundreds-strong bird hoarding obsession started with a single rescued parakeet. Over the past seven years, Dave Ske...
A tragic fire earlier this week in Greenwich, Conn. that killed a 42-year-old-man and left his 69-year-old mother in critical condition in a burn unit...
My husband and I first met in college. It wasn't until we moved in together four years later that I noticed that something was askew: I couldn't close his wardrobe drawers. His drawers were stuffed with endless amounts of t-shirts.
A 50-year-old businesswoman recently walked into her 83-year-old father's apartment and nearly passed out from what greeted her: stacks and stacks of papers, magazines, books -- "literally from the floor to the ceiling."
Even though most folks lump compulsive hoarding into the same illness umbrella as obsessive-compulsive disorder, hoarders actually have different brains.
