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I have a hoarder friend, who is very cognizant that she suffers from a mental illness. Her motif is a bit different: she has childhood trauma from her mother s
by IAmBroom 9mo ago
I have a hoarder friend, who is very cognizant that she suffers from a mental illness.
Her motif is a bit different: she has childhood trauma from her mother secretly throwing away her things, and assigns emotional value to anything that might be usable in the future (essentially safeguarding it against secret destruction by the mental image of her mother).
But likewise, her sense of value is all skewed.
- mrweasel 9mo agoWhile I don't think this is trauma in the traditional sense, it might be something similar. My father-in-law, who known her for decades, told me that it's a crush on one of the band members. Basically a teenage crush that never got resolve or replaced by actual relationships.
- throwway120385 9mo agoI've known someone like that too, and in her case it's because she never had anything when she was a kid. So she can take agonizingly long to let go of anything even if it's obviously ruined or worthless because it might be useful in some undefined way in the future.