With the hoarding, maybe it is more that those are all *possible* symptoms or attributes, but don't necessarily show up? And it depends on the circumstances? Like lots of Holocaust survivors and others who were starving for whatever reasons become food hoarders. They are terrified of ever going hungry again so they stock up as much food as they can. I saw an episode of Hoarders that was similar...the woman had been poor as a child and you got the feeling that she had had to make everything stretch...so she saved everything so it was not wasted. It is a fascinating subject in any case. I read something about the Collyer brothers in NY once and whoa, super out of control hoarding...
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Date: 2012-07-21 03:23 pm (UTC)With the hoarding, maybe it is more that those are all *possible* symptoms or attributes, but don't necessarily show up? And it depends on the circumstances? Like lots of Holocaust survivors and others who were starving for whatever reasons become food hoarders. They are terrified of ever going hungry again so they stock up as much food as they can. I saw an episode of Hoarders that was similar...the woman had been poor as a child and you got the feeling that she had had to make everything stretch...so she saved everything so it was not wasted. It is a fascinating subject in any case. I read something about the Collyer brothers in NY once and whoa, super out of control hoarding...