#hoarding disorder

[happy-and-gay-tortoise]

Reminder that people with hoarding disorders are not just these mythical creatures that only exist at maximum support needs. No. Some of us can clean sometimes, some of us can't but hide it really well, some of us are thriving in our environment and are making light of it, some of us aren't doing so well. We can disguise ourselves, some of you friends may have hoarding disorders too, your family. They don't want you over at their house ever? Check on them, ofc there are other reasons but some of us are just to ashamed and embarrassed to ask for help and trust me it's embarrassing when people find out whether they want to help or not. You're valid and deserve help and support, you don't have to do this alone. And you're *not* alone.

#hoarding #hoarding disorder #mdd

[belinhagamer999]

Neurodivergent flags 2!

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Hoarding disorder/HD without OCD flag

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[IMAGE ID: This image is a colorful abstract design with a black background. The image consists of 14 squares with 12 of them having different colors arranged in a grid pattern. The colors used are shades of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and purple. These squares are arranged in a symmetrical gradient rainbow pattern, while two squares are white with each square having the same size and shape. there's a white symbol between the two white squares, on the black background which is a pile of objects. /END ID]

Colors and squares mean that’s a hoard of something, same for the icon in the middle of the flag.

Oppositional defiant disorder/ODD flag

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Colors in the flag are commonly associated with rage.

#mad pride #mad punk #neurodivergent pride #persodivergent #non official disorders #stigmatized disorder #odd is a symptom of my trauma #and it’s very stigmatized btw #pro self diagnosis #I can use psychiatry labels and be against it #neurodivergent community #neurodivergent flag #oppositional defiant disorder #hoarding disorder #anti endos dni #disorder flag #neurodivergent positivity #impulse control disorders #cluster b #self diagnosed safe #mental illness awareness #personality disorder #mental disability #mogai community #nd community #mogai pride #mogai blog #mad pride flags #flags

[olahresidence]

"What you chose" - Digital art in Photoshop 2023

This is for the people who have/had to live in a hoarder situation.

You are justified in feeling frustrated about people who are supposed to love you, but instead they love their garbage.

I see you. I understand your pain. You were abused and I'm so sorry.

#digital art #digital illustration #artists on tumblr #photoshop #vent art #hoarding #hoarder #mental illness #OCD #hoarding disorder #mental health awareness #childhood trauma #I lived in a hoarder house for 25 years - I know how frustrating it is #You simply can't just 'clean it up' because the hoarder has to be the one to do it

[vestrix]

I'm getting increasingly annoyed at content claiming to be about hoarding and dealing with hoarding when it's not at all. At best it's disorganised clutter, at worst it's someone chasing minimalism.

An ACTUAL tip for fellow hoarders from a hoarder trying to do a downsize for a future move without overly triggering the "re-acquire at greater levels" response: You've got to start so early.

I'll move probably in September. I started in February.

My daily goal: Get rid of (charity, barter, bin) 3 objects a day. 2 easy, one harder. If I bin the harder, it counts for all 3 objects. I can go over the amount if I'm on a roll, but if afterward I'm looking at online shopping or thinking about acquiring more items, I pause for a few days.

I try to battle that anxiety by going through stuff in my collection for Fun, like rediscovering my objects I love, triggering those good feelings I get from my stuff, in an attempt to curb the urge to Get More by provoking that hit with stuff I already have. It's partially successful, honestly, and if I do end up buying stuff, I try to make sure I buy consumables. Food, a bathbomb, a scented candle, something I will use up. Or, I try to make sure what I buy is physically 'less' than what I got rid of, smaller / lighter / takes up less space.

Again, it's a battle against a brain which is having a panic response. There's only so much I can do.

But it DOES get easier to get rid of things when you go slowly, it's a muscle and an anxiety response and both need to be practiced, flexed, and rested. I've made a lot of physical progress and I hope mental / emotional progress, but I will always be fighting this fight, and I will always be a messy, cluttered, maximalist. It's just trying to keep it actually manageable (not what I think is manageable when I'm in denial) and where I'm happy, not overwhelmed and in distress.

Also to add, for me easy objects are never actually easy, but they're things I can rationally say are trash, or I don't like them, or I'm never going to use them, even if my Feelings are saying different.

These objects might be half a bottle of conditioner I didn't like, or a half used bottle of ketchup past its sell by date (which still looks fine), or a pen which only sometimes works now, or a tupperware which had gotten really mouldy and now I'm too nervous to use.

That's what I mean when I say "easy" objects. I am still anxious getting rid of those items, but they're less likely to haunt me.

Harder objects are things like a pair of shoes which are broken and don't fit me. A half knitted doll jumper which is the wrong size and I won't ever frog. A broken computer mouse. I don't make the rules about what is easy or hard in my brain, it often makes little rational sense, but it's usually based on (perceived) value, sentiment, or just liking the object even if it's in an unusable state.

That's the sort of stuff hoarders battle with.

Also, I'm begging you, if you're a content creator PLEASE stop calling things hoarding when they're not. Hoarding has clearly defined markers that need to be met, please be aware of these.

#hoarding #hoarding disorder

[ilhoonftw]

hoarders911, clutterhoardingcleanup, challengingdisorganization, clutterhoardingcleanup, clutterfairyhouston, adaa

#hoarding #hoarding disorder #long post #tw hoarding

[maepersonal]

good harvest today 👍

#no you do not get context #if you know you know #if you don't don't ask #ocd #collection #hoarding #hoarding disorder #oh mae oh my

[tiger-in-the-flightdeck]

With a big thanks to @christyimnotred for being my Accountability Brigade, I've done some work on my hoard. Three fabric bins filled, and labelled, and two of those bins put up on the 'fabric wall' (Just a stack of bins against the wall at the other end of my room) I think two more large bins, plus two small ones for speciality fabrics, and they will be done. I'm working on one of the small speciality bins which will be for lingerie fabrics like lace and tulle, because I can do that from my bed.

#tiger talks #hoarding #hoarding disorder #i am making so many lists!!

[gwydionmisha]

#Hoarding Disorder #New Treatment #Virtual Reality

[fandomloverangel]

Ok this is going to be live updates to maybe keep myself motivated. Context: I am a beginning hoarder. I don't want to be. However, it is very difficult for me to get rid of things, even when I want to.

#angel speaks #personal #hoarding #hoarding disorder #ocd #obsessive compulsive disorder

[atomicbug]

I’ve been looking into hoarding disorder and I’ve noticed some of the symptoms are romanticized in maximalist/scavenger aesthetics, particularly crovidcore and gremlincore. Collecting trinkets, having a messy room, and seeing value in aesthetically pleasing objects are all symptoms of hoarding disorder.

#hoarding disorder #gremlincore #crovidcore

[nerdby]

I really wish people would stop making this joke. It's ableist and invalidates the severity of hoarding disorders and executive dysfunction which leads to hoarding tendencies in people with ADHD and OCD. Not only that but it justifies giving money to big box stores even though public libraries are hemorrhaging money because of illegal censorship, and it's usually because people are too lazy to google whether or not their library charges late fees. Which many do not these days.

It's especially annoying because the people who post these memes are the same ones that will post memes complaining about being broke because they spent all of their money on books. And like, no, I don't feel bad for you. Not when public libraries offer books and wifi and movies and after school programs and community resources to people who cannot afford them -- poor people who grow up in poverty without basic luxuries like cable or cell phones or internet access. I never downloaded a MP3 or had regular access to wifi until I was in my 20s, and I grew up in the 1990s when the mail person was dropping off AOL discs in our box once a week.

That was in 2010 -- I didn't have internet until 2010, so don't sit there and tell me that everyone has it and that's why libraries are irrelevant. Y'all can set up a library card online and rent ebooks without ever having to leave your own home. It's sheer laziness and classism, and if you're bankrupt cause you spent all your money on books then no, I don't feel sorry for you.

#comic books #graphic novels #books #books and reading #books and movies #reading #booklr #book blog #booknerd #booklover #bibliophile #mentel health issues #adhd #actually adhd #ocd #hoarding disorder #executive dysfunction #ableism #classism #media censorship #media sanitization #book banning #book bans #frugal #budgeting #adulting #adulthood #when i say im frugal what i really mean is im poor #poverty #support public libraries

[shinra33459]

My father is a hoarder

Ever since I was a kid, my dad has hoarded tons of comic book collectibles and memorabilia. In my childhood home, it was relegated to a room in the basement, and later, when we used to live in a mobile home, it was only relegated to his bedroom. However, ever since we moved to a new house in August of last year, it has spread from far beyond his bedroom. Now, we have boxes for his collectibles in the living room, the upstairs hallway, the 4 seasons room, the guest room is filled halfway to the ceiling with the boxes for his collectibles, the crawlspace under the stairs in the basement is filled all the way up with boxes, the laundry room has some boxes, and half of his room is filled 3/4 of the way to the ceiling with more boxes of the same statues and busts with the only walkable spaces in his room are to his bed and to his television.

He always talks about how me and my brother need to be more cleanly while a solid 1/2 of the house is filled with boxes for his collectible junk. I know that I am not some clean freak. I occasionally leave stuff out from time to time, and my room is a bit messy with some dirty clothes, a few small boxes for some technology, and some papers because I filed my taxes recently. However, I can clean my room in about 20 minutes at most. His bedroom alone would take several hours if not more to clean, and I just don't know what to do about it. He tells me and my brother that we're messy, but he will straight-up deny that he has a problem.

It isn't just comic book collectibles that he hoards either, he also hoards old food that he refuses to throw away. When we moved about 8 months ago, I had to pressure him to throw out shrimp cocktail sauce that expired in late 2021, and an already open jar of mayonnaise that expired about a month prior to when we moved. Even as a kid, I remember that he would refuse to throw out expired spices as well. It was around 2010, and we still had spices that we would use regularly that expired in the late 1990s. When we lived in the mobile home, one of the cupboards was filled with expired cereal and Pop Tarts that he refused to throw out. Even still, we have a container of raisins that expired in August of 2022, and in the fridge, we have brown mustard that expired in August of 2022, and a jar of pickles that expired in November of 2022.

By the end of the year, I plan to move out and be on my own, and I know that my brother will follow suit in a few years on his own, and I am seriously worried that his hoarding will be far worse when he is living alone. I know that he won't throw any of that stuff away because he spent thousands on all of it, and if he had to sell that stuff, he wouldn't even come close to breaking even, which will also encourage him to keep that stuff. With how little he actually does around the house, I am worried that more rooms and other spaces will get filled up with more junk to the point where the living room and kitchen are the only habitable rooms in the house.

I’m also worried that his refusal to throw out expired food is going to result in him getting hospitalized because he just refuses to throw out old food. Combine that with a refusal to actually clean the house and care for our cats, which he currently relies on both me and my brother to do, his house is going to fall into disrepair in a matter of a few short years when both me and my brother move away. When trying to get him to throw away an already opened and expired jar of Miracle Whip results in an argument and him saying absurd things like expiration dates being a scam, I know that him living on his own, is going to result in the house becoming a part of the hoard.

#hoarding #tw hoarding #hoarding disorder #hoarding parent #vent #small rant

[dieletztepanzerhexe]

hoarders of the world, does hoarding extend to your beds too?

i always end up with heaps of things in my bed, i can only last max 3 days without all that unnecessary shit accumulating in my bed. i might need them, so i bring them with me to my bed, but there is no reason to have all those things here

#hoarding #hoarders #just hoarder things #hoarding disorder #moje

[nightmaretour]

Oh my fucking god I'm doing it again aren't I

#hoarding #food hoarding #hoarding disorder #I need a second freezer there's no room left #This is ignoring the very obvious cupboard snack hoard I have going that I'm going to pretend doesnt exist

[elfgarlic]

i spent a pretty good chunk of high school in a hoarder house with absolute scumbag parents(not mine, someone else's) and it fucked me up AND YET i self harmed by making myself look st haarding traumacore edits. time to take a shower and go to bed i think..

#hoarding disorder #shadow.txt #hoarding

[laughingblue12]

Pez Head

If you have seen any of my numerous posts about dolls or old books or even, you guessed it, Pez dispensers, you know how badly I am gifted with hoarding disorder.  You know the disease.  Every old string-saving grandpa or scrap-booking maiden aunt you had as a kid had it.  Piles and piles of useless and pointless things all neatly stacked and sorted somewhere in the house, or possibly garage……

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#hoarding disorder #humor #Pez dispensers #toy collecting