(CNN) — Having grown up with food insecurity, Kimi Ceridon and her sister see how their childhood experiences continue to leave their mark on their lives. Ceridon looks back on how she would sneak off ...

Behind closed doors across the country, millions of individuals are quietly overwhelmed by something most of us take for granted: our relationship with things we bring into our homes. The ...

A lot of people think of hoarding as something extreme — a home crammed to the ceiling with possessions. However, it tends to start gradually, and research has found that it can begin in adolescence ...

For people who develop hoarding behaviors, possessions take on meanings and values far beyond their practical use. Each item becomes deeply intertwined with emotions, memories, and personal identity ...

Hoarding OCD can cause someone to amass a variety of things. It may disrupt someone’s day-to-day life or ability to maintain a clean living space. Hoarding happens when you have difficulty discarding ...

Dear Readers: We hear a lot about hoarding these days. Hoarding is a compulsion, experts agree, which means people who hoard cannot stop, and their relationships are negatively affected. The Mayo ...

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Hoarding behavior has been observed in individuals with schizophrenia for more than a century. Despite this longstanding recognition, there has been a paucity of research exploring the motivations and ...

Hoarding didn’t originate with humans. Long before our population began stockpiling an almost unimaginable array of items, animals evolved similar behaviors, though possibly for different reasons.