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    "Hoarding disorder is different from collecting. People who have collections, such as stamps or model cars, deliberately search out specific items, categorize them and carefully display their collections. Although collections can be large, they aren't usually cluttered and they don't cause the distress and impairments that are part of hoarding disorder."

    http://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/hoarding-disorder/basics/symptoms/con-20031337
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    • Gries He
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      Editing … Is there anyone here who know someone that suffers from this disease?
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    • MasterCrash
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      Editing … Well, I find collecting to be addicting and I like to collect pretty much everything, but I think it still counts as collecting. (Wallpapers, albums, Steam games, Stephen King books, anime figurines, etc...)
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    • Bob GutSmasha
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      Editing … I think my cousin might have at some point. His brother died of cancer when he was 20 and it affected him very badly. One of my mates helped him clean out his apartment once, I never saw it myself though.
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    • Gries He
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      Editing … I'm afraid my mom and to a lesser extent my dad have a hoarding disorder. Whenever I throw away one of own (!) possessions (e.g. a broken USB stick or a dvd case), my mom actually goes through our garbage bin and takes it back out. When I asked her why she did that, she replied: "it could still be useful."
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      Editing … The only room in my parents' house that is tidy and not cluttered is mine. I realize they have a problem so I've helped them several times already cleaning up that mess, but I live 200 km away from them so when I come to visit them a few months later, everything looks the same again. Useless shit everywhere.
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      Editing … I'm not a psychologist but unless she really can't throw stuff away and their house is a mess they are probably fine. Older generations tend to hold on to stuff far longer than we do, they repaired shoes and shit.
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      Editing … oh if it's that bad then yeah they are nuts, the treatment for it is behavioral not medical though which is good
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    • Gries He
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      Editing … One of my sisters is the same. When she moved back in with our parents a few months ago, there wasn't enough room to store all of her furniture in our attic, because it was so full of crap already. So she put her stuff in my room. When I confronted her about it, she got upset with me. I'm the one who should be upset here ffs.
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      Editing … yeah domestic stuff can niggle away at families, after a point moving out is the only solution really
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    • Gries He
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      Editing … Me on the other hand? I have zero reservations getting rid of my own shit. I collect stuff and proudly display it. When I'm no longer interested in it, I sometimes sell my old comic books for example. There's a fine line between hoarding and collecting.
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    • MasterCrash
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      Editing … If she put stuff in your room because she didn't had space in the attic because of your parents, then I don't think she's the same. She might just not be bothered to help them clean or clean herself, that's all. Lazy people exist as well.
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      Editing … Her room was already too cluttered, so she put her crap in the next room. When that one was so full that you can't even walk in there anymore, she moved on to my room. Situation's fucked up. Maybe I should send you a picture to illustrate how messy my family is.
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      Editing … yeah, tell your sister that one Australian and one Portuguese guy have come to the conclusion that she is lazy
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      Editing … please don't, I imagine two Gries with long hair and skirt and that is enough
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      Editing … Both of them with long hair and skirt? Also, RIP my eyes for that image.
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    • LizardTaro
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      Editing … I only have digital hoarding disorder. I never delete anything and there's still data from 2005 on my external hard drive. Why? Because this data could still be useful and I don't want to lose parts of my childhood.
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      Editing … ^ I wish I had done this :( Finding the bits and pieces of data I did save from my earlier years has just made me remember all the things I didn't save and were lost forever :( I need a big offline version of Facebook so I can keep a record of things. Like a big digital diary
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      Editing … My parents have saved and archived photos from when my sister and I were growing up (digitally and actually printed), but only my step-grandfather has it, and even then, it's just because he's old
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      Editing … This is a great thread: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1160862
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      Editing … Hahahaha, get rid of my stuff? That I spent time and money purposefully collecting? Never. Begone with your nonsense
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    • Bob GutSmasha
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      Editing … I'd go digital with the PS4 but games are now 50gb so there just isn't enough hard-drive space. I used to like collecting games but I'm over it now, digital is much easier.
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      Editing … Hmm, when everyone goes digital, will physical games get cheaper, or dearer?
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    • Bob GutSmasha
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      Editing … Their price will be absorbed by digital games which will now be both region-locked and twice as expensive; because it makes sense.
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      Editing … I will stick to my outdated physical media thank you :P
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      Editing … my mom is like gries's mom. But i think i might have a weird version of hoarding.. I dislike owning anything. Sometimes I feel like I'm hoarding stuff I'm trying to get rid of, which sounds like a contradiction.
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      Editing … Hmm, what is it about owning things that you dislike? Feeling that if you don't constantly use it then it simply serves as a burden?
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    • Bob GutSmasha
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      Editing … He's trying to make space for all the guilt he carries inside.
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