Are you a hoarder?

Simone says that she’s always been having trouble

throwing away things. Anxiety strikes her when she is 

attempting to discard any item. This is a classic example of a hoarder. Hoarding is defined as having persistent difficulty in discarding or parting with possessions, regardless of their 

actual value. The behavior of a hoarder effects all those

 associated with the hoarder.

What are the common symptoms of a hoarder?

• Severe anxiety when it comes to throwing away any item

• Constant suspicion of other people touching your items or that someone will throw them out.

• Hoarders cannot throw away possessions.

• Have an assumption that the item will be useful someday.

• The home of a hoarder has the furniture gradually moved to the middle of a room with useless objects around it.

• There is no organization to the clutter. Items are stacked precariously at random or even tossed inside the room.

• Keeping items of no value like magazines, newspapers, or catalogs.

• The home of the hoarder becomes unsanitary.

Homes inhabited by hoarders could be dangerous, unhealthy, or both. We at Bio Cleanse Services offer hoarders a complete clean-up service. To know more about our cleaning services, visit us at http://www.bio-cleanse.com.au/

5 Reasons Why You Should Declutter

To declutter is “the” strategy for overcoming hoarding.

For compulsive hoarders, battling this behaviour is very much a step by step process. Along with the plan of action of physically moving the things and trashing them, a great deal of motivation and correction of thoughts goes into treating a hoarder.

Following are five reasons why you should declutter, in order to overcome hoarding.

1. Some hoarders claim that the clutter gives them “company” and shields them from the outside world. As much as comforting and disorienting this thought might sound, clutter is nothing but an emotional and physical baggage. Clutter clogs our mind with an excess of stimuli: visual, olfactory and tactile. Our senses work beyond normal and hence, it is a mental burden. 
2. Clutter causes embarrassment. Hoarders feel ashamed to show their house around to their friends and acquaintances, simply because the house is a mess. Once you declutter, you tend to ward off social isolation. This will help in building relationships that were lost because of this domestic mess. 
3. Clutter is not hygienic. Inhabiting with junk exposes you to multiple respiratory diseases. If the trash involves dead insects, faecal matter and decaying stuff, then the hoarder is bound to get various infections and diseases, putting personal health in a quandary. 
4. The best part of decluttering is finding things you thought you never had or bought. Hoarding results due to excessive accumulation of stuff that one doesn’t really need. Decluttering will help you unearth extra pair of shoes or unpaid bills and in some cases, money. The recyclable trash and items which you can put on sale (because you don’t need them) can stand the chance to earn you a few bucks. 
5. Decluttering will be the first of many changes. The immediate result is a sanitized personal space and decreased social isolation. Along the way, you will focus your attention on other things rather than accumulating trash, such as practicing yoga or building a new home theatre. 

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