Many people are eager and begging for information on hoarding.
As a hoarding clean up specialists it is my feeling that anyone who performs hoarding clean up should know as much about hoarding as possible.
Because the hoarding illness is so new, there are few books on the subject on hoarding.
Of those books, there are even few that I believe are trust worthy.
Dr.
Randy Frost and Gail Steketee although have a book called "Stuff".
The book Stuff is what I would call the introduction to understanding hoarding without having to first get a degree in Psychology.
The book is easy to read and understand.
It is written for the average person who is already to stressed and confused about their or their loved one's hoarding condition.
Dr.
Frost and Dr.
Steketee explains hoarding to the best of anyone's ability with the limited information that is out there.
They take actual examples of actual hoarders and in detail explains their ordeals.
One hoarding situation mentioned in the book is about a cat hoarder.
The authors explain that the cat hoarder didn't start with over 600 cats with the mess.
The hoarder actually came from a privileged home where she was given a trust fund from a high society family including the best education and high society advantages.
The person became an international photographer sought out by the biggest magazines all over the world.
But as we learn most hoarders also have a trauma in their lives that hasn't been dealt with.
In this case the hoarder had a terrible childhood, where she and her brother were ignored and left with a nanny that had issues herself.
The patient explains that she went to a therapists who in time had "discovered" that taking care of cats was the way of curing her problems.
As you can read in the book, this became another issue on top of the issues that she already had.
The authors also give wonderful descriptions of other hoarding situations.
They do explain that although there is no permanent cure or one standard therapy, there is cognitive therapy that shown success is some patients.
Cognitive therapy or behavior therapy is where the therapists actually goes to the home and talks about the items that have been hoarded in the home.
They show that when the items are removed from the home the stress is not as great and the need to hoard that particular item is not an issue.
For those interested in the book, but would like to find out more about the authors I would suggest that one should visit the OCD Foundation hoarding center web site.
Also if you look up on YouTube for Randy Frost and Gail Steketee you will see actual cognitive therapy in action.
As a hoarding clean up specialists it is my feeling that anyone who performs hoarding clean up should know as much about hoarding as possible.
Because the hoarding illness is so new, there are few books on the subject on hoarding.
Of those books, there are even few that I believe are trust worthy.
Dr.
Randy Frost and Gail Steketee although have a book called "Stuff".
The book Stuff is what I would call the introduction to understanding hoarding without having to first get a degree in Psychology.
The book is easy to read and understand.
It is written for the average person who is already to stressed and confused about their or their loved one's hoarding condition.
Dr.
Frost and Dr.
Steketee explains hoarding to the best of anyone's ability with the limited information that is out there.
They take actual examples of actual hoarders and in detail explains their ordeals.
One hoarding situation mentioned in the book is about a cat hoarder.
The authors explain that the cat hoarder didn't start with over 600 cats with the mess.
The hoarder actually came from a privileged home where she was given a trust fund from a high society family including the best education and high society advantages.
The person became an international photographer sought out by the biggest magazines all over the world.
But as we learn most hoarders also have a trauma in their lives that hasn't been dealt with.
In this case the hoarder had a terrible childhood, where she and her brother were ignored and left with a nanny that had issues herself.
The patient explains that she went to a therapists who in time had "discovered" that taking care of cats was the way of curing her problems.
As you can read in the book, this became another issue on top of the issues that she already had.
The authors also give wonderful descriptions of other hoarding situations.
They do explain that although there is no permanent cure or one standard therapy, there is cognitive therapy that shown success is some patients.
Cognitive therapy or behavior therapy is where the therapists actually goes to the home and talks about the items that have been hoarded in the home.
They show that when the items are removed from the home the stress is not as great and the need to hoard that particular item is not an issue.
For those interested in the book, but would like to find out more about the authors I would suggest that one should visit the OCD Foundation hoarding center web site.
Also if you look up on YouTube for Randy Frost and Gail Steketee you will see actual cognitive therapy in action.