Category: Research
Animal Hoarding: An Infographic
5-minute read time. Today’s post is another attempt at an infographic about one of the heartbreaking symptoms of hoarding disorder, animal and pet hoarding. Read more
EMDR Therapy: An Explainer
7-minute read time. In one of the podcasts I listened to recently, a fellow adult-child-of-a-hoarder explained that she tried EMDR therapy to help her process some of the trauma of living in a level 5 hoarder house. My first thought was, “What the hell is EMDR therapy?” Let’s get into it. EMDR therapy, otherwise known… Read more
Improving the Narrative Around Hoarding, Part 2
10-minute read time. Today’s post is less original than educational. As promised, here is one of the assignments I submitted for one of the writing courses, with the professor’s comments attached so you can see my revision process. Below the file, you’ll find the revised article. If interested, please read it and tell me how… Read more
Hoarding symptoms, but not hoarding disorder
9-minute read time. Today’s post only scratches the surface of the elaborate field of mental health disorders and is certainly not the last time I will write about it. In the near future, I plan to publish more definition-based explainers about other mental health conditions that relate to, influence, and have symptoms similar to hoarding… Read more
Defining the Clutter: the Struggle of Labeling Hoarding
8-minute read time. Today’s post is another rough first draft of a piece I recently submitted for another class. Again, once I get comments on this piece, I’ll share them and edit them to improve the story. This article contains content you might have seen in my other pieces, namely the explainer I wrote about… Read more
Hoarding Statistics: An Infographic
10-minute read time. During my free time today, I thought it would be nice to practice making an infographic with some statistics about hoarders. Granted, this data is from around 20 years ago, so it might be slightly outdated, but the general trends highlight some pretty interesting patterns. For more information, see my source at the… Read more
Improving the Narrative Around Hoarding, Part 1
9-minute read time. This weekend’s post is a rough first draft of a piece I recently submitted for one of my classes about 20 minutes ago, LOL. I thought it might be illuminating to take you all through my drafting and revision process, so once I get comments on this piece, I’ll share them and… Read more
Defining Hoarding: An Explainer
7-minute read time. I think it’s time to define hoarding since I have talked about it so much already. There is a lot of research out there, but there is still a lot to be known, so if you would like to add something to this page or see a necessary correction, please leave a… Read more
