What Is Hoarding: How Can I Understand It?

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What Is Hoarding How Can I Understand It
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• The definition of hoarding as a separate disorder
  is relatively new. In fact, the International
  Classification of Diseases only identified it
  separately in 2018. Until then, some social
  workers had little idea what hoarding syndrome
  was about, beyond an unspeakably untidy home.
• But Jeffrey Avery and Associates had realised the
  difference far earlier than that. We discovered
  many compulsive hoarders are often gentle, lovely
  people. They just have household waste and
  clutter seemingly dumped in every corner of their
  home, regardless of its actual value to a third
  party.

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• However, There Is Sometimes Value Among The Junk
• You cant take the approach hoarding is junk
  piling up, because the occupant is too lazy to
  tidy their home. Many hoarders whose homes we
  cleared were once tidy people with prized
  possessions. However, these may not be obvious
  after the syndrome overwhelms them until we
  retrieve the value.

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• You may be wondering how our hoarding removal
  service works at this stage. It begins with
  carefully sifting through possessions. And then
  identifying any items of value so you can decide
  what to do with them.
• Ignorance is not an offence prosecuted in
  England. Junk collectors who inadvertently trash
  valuable, and early 20th century furniture are
  not guilty of a crime. Nor are rubbish removers
  in trouble if they ignorantly throw collectables
  in the crusher at a council site.

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• We cant promise to find value in a hoarded home.
  However we have occasional done so, as some of
  these photos show. Avery Associates catalogues
  interesting things as we find them, and sets them
  aside as the house clearance continues. We have
  professional valuers on call to advise our
  clients what to do next.

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• What Is Hoarding. How Does It Break Out?
• There is little consensus on the origin of this
  mental state. However, we can confirm 5 of
  people develop uncontrollable urges not to throw
  things away. We cleared a home in Beckenham where
  even our presence caused the occupant
  unbelievable stress.

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• Social workers are beginning to understand how
  some people seem to be born with an innate urge
  not to throw things away. Thats because
  compulsive hoarding seems to run in families, and
  surface occasionally. Its also possible
  traumatic emotional incidents bring the syndrome
  out into the open.
• What Is Hoarding Compared to Collecting?
• New clients often ask us what is hoarding
  actually. Sometimes their troubled relative was
  an avid collector in the past. But their ability
  to discriminate between collectibles and other
  peoples waste steadily deteriorated, until they
  started collecting things at fly tipping sites.

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• The distinction between hoarding and collecting
  blurs at the crossover point. However, there are
  clear differences between serious collectors, and
  people who keep things because they might be
  useful someday.

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• COLLECTORS
• People hoarding things for the sake of it are
  unlikely to store them tidily, or sort or
  catalogue them.
• They find it difficult to resolve the
  disorganized chaos that results, or get around to
  making a start.
• When they do make a start they often give up
  easily, after they realise the enormity of their
  task.

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• Understanding Hoarders and Factors Driving Them
• Hoarders are not deranged people at all. They
  dont require psychiatric treatment. However,
  they may need some help sorting out their lives.
  There is no one-size-fits all to the way the rest
  of us value our possessions
• Some of us accumulate them for their intrinsic
  value, for example rare stamps and coins.
• Others of us hang on to things for their
  instrumental value, for example spare parts for
  the fridge.
• A third group keeps things for sentimental value,
  like family photographs and parents wedding
  rings.

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• Compulsive hoarders values are an extreme case
  of those examples. To them, everything has
  intrinsic, instrumental, or sentimental value in
  their minds and the bond is strong. Sometimes
  theres no choice except a complete clear out and
  restart.

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• I used Avery Associates for probate content
  valuation, clearance and auction and have been
  very impressed with their prompt, personal,
  knowledgeable experience and service. The
  clearance of large furniture items down several
  flights of stairs was done without a hitch and
  the guys even brought their own vacuum cleaner to
  hoover up any remaining dust and debris. Always a
  pleasure to work with a team of friendly,
  personable professionals. Best wishes Margaret

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