At what point does a collection become hoarding? All of us at one time or another had collections whether of stamps, books or plates. “People collect and save objects as a hobby in virtually all ...

A team of professional cleaners steps inside a home buried under years of extreme hoarding and dangerous clutter. As every ...

Cleaners enter one of the most disgusting hoarder homes ever seen and uncover piles of trash, human waste, and unbearable ...

Some of the treatment options for compulsive hoarding are therapy, medication, support groups, and help from a professional organizer. Everyone likes having stuff in their home, and many people are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Studies suggest that between 3% and 5% of the population are compulsive hoarders, posing danger to themselves and others. Photo by ...

In their Cooperatives and Condominiums column, Stroock & Stroock & Lavan's Richard Siegler and Eva Talel discuss Collyer's conditions, which can create serious health and safety concerns for an ...

The clutter and trash blanketing a Moorhead woman's home couldn't hide the irony in a few possessions. Amid the flotsam of the middle-aged woman's life was "The Power of Positive Thinking," the ...

Dear Amy: I’m a middle-aged man. My fiancée recently moved in with me. My family had hoarding issues for generations. Long before Marie Kondo and hoarding intervention TV came along, I was in therapy ...

Fugen Neziroglu, Jerome Bubrick, Jose A. Yaryura-Tobias. New Harbinger Publications, $16.95 (146pp) ISBN 978-1-57224-349-1 The Collyer brothers, with their bicycle-, chandelier- and newspaper-packed ...

What comes to mind when you read the word "addiction?" Does it make you think of repetitive use of alcohol and drugs despite negative consequences? Or do you think of shopping, sexual activity, video ...