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February 1, 2006, 5:07 am PST
Buy her the book
Quote From: moms2bonesDr. Phil,I have a friend who is such a hoarder. When you walk into her apartment, there is no place to sit, or any place you would want to sit.She comes over here, and always says "your place is so comfortable and nice", I have told her she needs to either get rid of the things she has, or organize it. I have even offered to help her. Still no change. If only I can get through to her, the things that need to be done, so she can have a clean organized apt.This person keeps everything, even little game pieces to games that are no longer available for play. Papers and magazines.Even her child likes to say, boy I wish we lived in a place like yours. Oh and the child has the same characteristics as the mom. Is there hope, hopefully she will catch the show and get some hints... I to am a compulsive hoarder. I have been since I was in my teens. They believe it to be a form of OCD but they're not sure because all hoarders do not have OCD and all those who have OCD are not hoarders. Buy her the book "Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding" by doctors Fugen Neziroglu, Jerome Burbrick and Jose Yaryura-Tobias. I highly recommend it and it may help her but only if as Dr. Phil says she's a "willing spirt". It's paperback, $15. I found it to be a great help. It explains the different degrees of hoarding, why they believe we do it and gives great step by step methods to change the behavior. I hope this helps. Dr. Phil posted a link to the OCD website which lead me to the hoarding website which lead me to this book. For that I am eternally grateful. I hope this helps in some small way.
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