Tag: hoarding
Welcome to the Tour; Examining the Structures of a Hoarder’s Brain
9-minute read time. Hello, all! It’s been a while since I last visited here. With a multitude of classes, a fantastic internship with Physicians for Human Rights, and a part-time job, it’s been challenging to make time for daily posts. Instead, I’ll be content with uploading some of the articles I’ve written for classes over Read more
New Years Reflections and Resolutions
3-minute read time. Today’s post is short and sweet. Over this break, I have been less focused on my blog due to the holidays and applying to seemingly thousands of internships, but because New Year’s is a time of reflection and resolution, I thought I would break my silence with a small post. Please enjoy. Read more
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
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
Goat paths
8-minute read time. A goat path can be many things. It can be a grassy meadow, terraformed to be later used as a roadway or a trail. It is sometimes called a desire path or a desire line, an unplanned trail created by natural erosion caused by human or animal traffic. The more the path Read more
Saving the world, one bottle at a time
7-minute read time. Everyone experiences climate anxiety differently. According to Cornell Health, climate anxiety, also known as eco-anxiety, is the feeling of stress about the effects of climate change on the environment, human health, and ecosystems. With climate anxiety comes a range of symptoms, including intrusive thoughts; feelings of grief, loss, anger, sadness, and guilt; Read more
Commentary: Dead Body in the Collyer Mansion
8-minute read time. This will be the first part of a series of commentaries on each chapter of the fascinating book Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and The Meaning of Things by Randy O. Frost and Gail Steketee. During these informal commentaries, I will list each annotation I noted in the chapter, explaining why I pointed the 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
Hesitancy
9-minute read time. I want to write a book. At least, I think I do. I think that the topic of this blog deserves to be published. I don’t care so much that it is me writing it (that’s not to say I don’t take pride in my work), but I think writing a book Read more
Interview with Kara
23-minute read time. Welcome back from the November holiday! I hope you had a restful and enjoyable Thanksgiving. I will return to posting today with a great interview I did with one of my fellow students in the JHU Master’s program. I thought this interview was particularly interesting because Kara is one of the few Read more
