"But it's not a lifestyle choice, it's a mental health issue." Hoarding was recognised as a complex mental health condition in 2013. Between two and five per cent of the UK population is estimated to ...

The line between collecting and hoarding isn’t always clear to the casual observer. While one person’s carefully curated vinyl record collection might occupy an entire room, another’s seemingly random ...

This piece unpacks why we hoard, when “data is the new gold” stops being true, and how to confidently delete what no longer ...

Hoarding didn’t originate with humans. Long before our population began stockpiling an almost unimaginable array of items, animals evolved similar behaviors, though possibly for different reasons.

While the Western world has published extensively regarding hoarding disorder, the East, particularly Japan, has only recently begun to address this phenomenon. However, it is still curious to many ...