Besides being a disorder in itself, hoarding is also characteristic in a number of other disorders. Studies indicate that the Diogenes syndrome—gross self-neglect, domestic squalor and hoarding trash--overlaps into symptoms of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD), dementia, or psychosis, suggesting that hoarding is a common symptom in moderate to severe dementia patients (Steketee et al., 2001). There are many illnesses that are problematic and have the same symptoms of late life hoarders. Alzheimer’s or dementia are referred to most often because they are well known disorders, and you also have the lessor talked about mental, eating, obsessive compulsive, & paranoid disorders. Because some of the same symptoms of these disorders overlap
