[steve86]

FYI, stocking up on wood or canned goods is not the definition of hoarding re mental health. Hoarding is being unable to throw out garbage and useless items like a take out menu from a restaurant that has closed and broken hair curlers. It is a disorder and it can affect physical health when the piles of junk with dust and insects and dead rodent infestation soaked in dog urine get too big.

Correct. Thanks for a voice of sanity, and very good examples given to make the distinction.

I recommend people staying away from the shtf site -- sensational garbage like a worse version of National Enquirer.

Unless you encounter a psychiatrist version of Lois Lerner -- and there surely are a few -- ordinary mental health professionals are not going to be using the new DSM guidelines against patients, conservative or otherwise. The bad apples would have done it even with the old guidelines.

[kabumpo]

Thanks, Steve. My mother was afflicted with this in the last years of her life - there was no remedy. I used the time that she was in the hospital to clear out the rubbish. I used 40 huge black garbage bags just on the bedroom.