Thread: clean your room!!!

Oh yeah. I saw some kind of special about people with this kind of disorder. It's called Compulsive Hoarding and it is related to Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder.

Originally Posted by KT_

Oh yeah. I saw some kind of special about people with this kind of disorder. It's called Compulsive Hoarding and it is related to Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder.

That's not compulsive hoarding. I knew a guy who had that, and his house was nothing like that, there were just boxes and papers everywhere.

That's just plain messy.

Using the arm of a chair, and a table as an ashtray because your ashtray is too full?

The litterbox hadn't been cleaned in forever.

I'd be surprised if the cat wasn't lying dead somewhere in that place.

Originally Posted by DaiTengu

That's not compulsive hoarding. I knew a guy who had that, and his house was nothing like that, there were just boxes and papers everywhere.

That's just plain messy.

Using the arm of a chair, and a table as an ashtray because your ashtray is too full?

The litterbox hadn't been cleaned in forever.

I'd be surprised if the cat wasn't lying dead somewhere in that place.

Well, I mean there are obviously different degrees of the disorder. Most people just hoard selective things such as newspapers and magazines. Only a few people never throw anything out.

I remember seeing a thread on some other forum where a person told about his/her mom who had this disorder. The thread had tons of pictures of the house and it was full of junk, but I don't think the mother collected cigarettes or trash.