Comments on: Help for family and friends of compulsive hoarders http://www.sparkleize.com/2010/01/18/help-for-family-and-friends-of-compulsive-hoarders/ Fri, 10 Sep 2010 20:28:30 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Crystal http://www.sparkleize.com/2010/01/18/help-for-family-and-friends-of-compulsive-hoarders/comment-page-1/#comment-2604 Crystal Thu, 21 Jan 2010 02:38:54 +0000 http://www.sparkleize.com/?p=281#comment-2604 Jessie, thanks very much for your comments. I'm so glad the resources were helpful. Readers, if you're interested in reading more, I just came across <a href="http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/when-its-not-just-clutter-anymore/?em" rel="nofollow"> this interesting article from today's NY Times</a> about hoarding. Crystal Jessie, thanks very much for your comments. I’m so glad the resources were helpful.

Readers, if you’re interested in reading more, I just came across this interesting article from today’s NY Times about hoarding.

Crystal

]]> By: Jessie http://www.sparkleize.com/2010/01/18/help-for-family-and-friends-of-compulsive-hoarders/comment-page-1/#comment-2603 Jessie Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:54:47 +0000 http://www.sparkleize.com/?p=281#comment-2603 You have done a terrific job of rounding up information and resources on this topic. My mother suffers from years of depression and chronic disorganization that finally escalated into full-blown compulsive hoarding after her last child left for college. We, her children and our spouses, have gone back twice in the past seven months to help her with the process of getting therapy and sorting through all the stuff. My mother is nowhere near as bad as a lot of the people on the A & E show, she is not living in squalor - yet. But if we did not step in to help her, who knows what would have happened. I have read the book you recommended and it is an excellent resource. I also liked Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding by Fugen A. Neziroglu, Jose A. Yaryura-Tobias, Jerome Bubrick. I've done a lot of research myself, but was interested in finding my mother an online support group and possibly some one who would work through a Treatments That Work workbook, by the same researchers who wrote the Buried in Treasures book that you mentioned (there is also an accompanying therapist's book to go along with that one). So, I'm grateful for the links you have posted about groups, and I'll try those first. Thanks again for the info! You have done a terrific job of rounding up information and resources on this topic. My mother suffers from years of depression and chronic disorganization that finally escalated into full-blown compulsive hoarding after her last child left for college. We, her children and our spouses, have gone back twice in the past seven months to help her with the process of getting therapy and sorting through all the stuff.

My mother is nowhere near as bad as a lot of the people on the A & E show, she is not living in squalor - yet. But if we did not step in to help her, who knows what would have happened.

I have read the book you recommended and it is an excellent resource. I also liked Overcoming Compulsive Hoarding by Fugen A. Neziroglu, Jose A. Yaryura-Tobias, Jerome Bubrick.

I’ve done a lot of research myself, but was interested in finding my mother an online support group and possibly some one who would work through a Treatments That Work workbook, by the same researchers who wrote the Buried in Treasures book that you mentioned (there is also an accompanying therapist’s book to go along with that one). So, I’m grateful for the links you have posted about groups, and I’ll try those first.

Thanks again for the info!

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