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Bibliomania is the excessive collecting or even hoarding of books to the point where social relations or health are damaged, particularly as a symptom of obsessive–compulsive disorder. Bibliomania is not to be confused with bibliophilia , which is the (psychologically healthy) love of books, and as such is not considered a clinical ...
The psychology of collecting is an area of study that seeks to understand the motivating factors explaining why people devote time, money, and energy making and maintaining collections. There exist a variety of theories for why collecting behavior occurs, including consumerism, materialism, neurobiology and psychoanalytic theory.
A UK charity called Hoarding UK has found that people have very different ideas about what it means to have a cluttered home. For some, a small pile of things in the corner of an otherwise well-ordered room constitutes serious clutter. For others, only when the narrow pathways make it hard to get through a room does the clutter register.
What started out as a genuine desire to hold on to memories slowly turned into an obsession.
A hoarding disorder is a recognized mental health condition in which a person has difficulty discarding or parting with possessions. Regardless of the value of the items, it causes the person ...
People with obsessive decluttering may deliberately or unintentionally discard items that are meaningful to others, like family heirlooms or photographs. The effects that this disorder has are very similar to those defined by OCD , even though these effects may be portrayed in significantly different ways.
Firefly Books. ISBN 978-1770855854. [17] [18] Thomas, Geralin. From Hoarding to Hope: Understanding People Who Hoard and How to Help Them (April 2015). ISBN 9781506148359; She is referenced in Dirty Secret: A Daughter Comes Clean About Her Mother's Compulsive Hoarding [19] and The ICD Guide to Collaborating with Professional Organizers.
Hoarding can run in families, and it may be possible genetics play a role in developing hoarding behaviors. [16] Also, this behavior can be developed due to life circumstances such as difficult losses, depression , financial crises , and living small which make it difficult for people to get rid of their belongings.