psychiatric disorders
Hoarding Disorder
Key Points
Hoarding is usually a chronic disorder in which hoarders accumulate possessions that congest and clutter active living areas, making these areas very difficult to use as intended and sometimes unsafe. Discarding possessions causes patients with hoarding disorder significant distress. Treat using cognitive-behavioral therapy that is tailored to treat specific hoarding symptoms. If cognitive-behavioral therapy is not effective, a trial with an SSRI or SNRI can be considered, especially if the patient has potentially responsive comorbidity. 