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> Hoarding is a mental disorder where the individual makes extreme connections between items, memories, and emotions. What about the type of hoarders who colle
by PurpleRamen 3y ago
> Hoarding is a mental disorder where the individual makes extreme connections between items, memories, and emotions.
What about the type of hoarders who collect stuff for monetary reasons? I don't think there are memories involved, and I don't see a direct emotional connection. It's just people who believe that someday this stuff is valuable, or the other side, it's something they might need some day, for repairing or building, or something like that.
- saiya-jin 3y agoI don't think thats largely the case here. Otherwise you would be able to reason with such people, which is definitely not the case here. I'd go with that extreme emotional attachment and some form of autism / other disorder. Lets not forget non-trivial part of population is on spectrum of one/multiple psychiatric disorders, but say 2 out of 10 doesn't get you to mental asylum, rather on lifelong medicines if you get diagnosed properly, but most people do not get that luxury. So they often end up a massive pain in the A for basically everybody around them.