Joshua and Ryan talk about hoarding—the clinical definition, the statistics, the causes, the symptoms, the common types, the risks, the recovery—and they answer the following questions:
What is the clinical definition of “hoarding”? (03:00)
What is “spartanism”? (03:35)
What are the common types of hoarding? (05:43)
What is the difference between hoarding and collecting? (09:30)
What is the “sunk-cost fallacy”? (11:02)
What are the symptoms of hoarding? (21:56)
What are the causes of hoarding? (23:30)
How is hoarding diagnosed? (27:51)
Do children hoard? (29:41)
When do obsessions become unhealthy? (31:38)
What are the five levels of hoarding? (32:04)
Are there affluent hoarders? (43:17)
How does one become a hoarder? (45:16)
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