Hoarding Disorder
Accounts of hoarding behaviors have appeared in literature, as far back as 319 B.C.E. in the writings of Aristotle''s student Theophrastus; in the news, like New York''s infamous Collyer brothers in the 1940s; and more recently in popular reality television series.
But it wasn''t until the publication of DSM-5 in 2013 that hoarding was classified as a disorder in its own right rather than as a symp...
Accounts of hoarding behaviors have appeared in literature, as far back as 319 B.C.E. in the writings of Aristotle''s student Theophrastus; in the news, like New York''s infamous Collyer brothers in the 1940s; and more recently in popular reality television series.
But it wasn''t until the publication of DSM-5 in 2013 that hoarding was classified as a disorder in its own right rather than as a symp...
