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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 616.85840651
EAN num: 9781572243491
ISBN number: 157224349X
Label: New Harbinger Publications
Manufacturer: New Harbinger Publications
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 146
Printing Date: 2004-07
Publishing house: New Harbinger Publications
Sale Popularity Level: 28187
Studio: New Harbinger Publications
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This book, the very first ever written for savers and their families, provides an overview of compulsive hoarding and how it relates to obsessive-compulsive disorder. It discusses hoarding broadly, offering readers perspectives on the physical, behavioral, and value-oriented aspects of the condition. Readers can use its assessment tools to help decide why they or their loved one hoards. Skill-building exercises help readers determine how to beat the hoarding problem by addressing issues that often underlie compulsive saving. Even though this is fundamentally a self-help book, it contains a frank discusion about the need for professional help in some hoarding cases, how to find it, and what medications have been proven effective for savers.
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As a mid-level hoarder (had pathways), this book provided helpful info and an effective methodology for conquering my hoarding. It discusses cognitive therapy, which many people with depression will be familiar with.
I also read Peter Walsh's Its All Too Much. It provided additional inspiration and help in knowing what to toss and in planning my rooms. However, Walsh's approach of a quick sort that takes a day or two was not feasible for me as a hoarder. I needed to see tangible results in a short period of time, or my efforts would fall by the wayside like so many times before. Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding gave me the tools to do that.
For the very first time, I believe I am truly conquering this problem for good and don't have to panic that someone might see inside my apartment.
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As someone who hoards along with her mother, this book is a tremendous help in understanding the problem, and provides assistance in helping to alleviate the compulsive hoarding.
As advertised within the book, THE BOOK NEVER MAKES YOU FEEL BAD about your problem.
I higly recommend this book to anyone who has a compulsive hoarding problem or is a packrat of sorts.
My living situation is improving based on my reading this book. Soon I'll have the whole coach cleaned off and will be able to enjoy sitting and watching TV for once in years.
I grew up in a dysfunctional family where we never had any company because you could not walk through the house and it was so embarassing. I can remember as far back as age 13 (now 46), when the house was a mess thanks to my mother. How depressing. Never had friends over, never had a birthday party for me or most of my other siblings. We, as children, were miserable and had a rotten childhood because of my mom's problem which I inherited or learned to some degree.
Again, this book never makes you feel like you're an idiot or psychotic for having a problem. The book is supportive and very informative. I haven't finished reading it yet, but an half way through and already I am empowered to clean up and do the right thing. I hope I can keep the house clean from now on and not hoard anymore. I use to be a dumpster diver - literally.
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Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding: Why Cost Savings & How You Can Stop (New Harbinger Self-Help Workbook) As a "recovering" hoarder, I found this book useful and helpful. I even bought a second copy for a friend who is also trying to come to grips with the problem.
It is an easy read and it's full of insights. Besides that, it takes up very little space!
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Compulsive hoarding is a dirty little secret in America. If you have a friend or family member who will never allow you into their home, that is a big blue flag warning you that they are afflicted with this disorder.
Someone who cannot bear to part with anything someone else would consider minor, such as junk mail, twist ties, broken pens and pencils--to the point there are literally hundreds or thousands of such items and it affects their ability to walk through their living space is a compulsive hoarder.
Everyone has a bit of the pack rat in them, this book helps the person, and especially the families of such individuals, identify this disorder and gives a method of dealing with the consequences.
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This book is so good, I couldn't read it all in one sitting, in that I didn't want to distill the feeling that it gave me in the beginning, for fear the author would destroy it all with nonsense words. It has opened possibilties I'd never before considered. It's made me think differently about why I can't let go of things. And after reading this book, for the very first time in my life, I'm coming closer to understanding why what is material is important to me.
And by "material," I mean, just old photographs, my grandmother's wedding gown, my great-grandmother's piano, stuff like that. This book explains how it's not important.
But maybe this author didn't go through watching almost everyting destroyed through three hurricanes, two floods, and an absent-minded tornado. So I also feel a bit of angst when someone living in a highrise in New York writes a book explaining to me why "material" things are important to me....and shouldn't be.
At the same time, the writer made some good points and I'm going to try and follow them. Honest.
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