One particular mental health issue that I have experienced is working with a 75-year-old woman with schizoaffective disorder with hoarding disorder. This patient had a severe hoarding disorder and was very interested in items such as interested in stacks of paper towel or cutlery but she began to hoard any items that she can find regardless of its worth or value to her. Her cognition test indicated impaired thought, insight, judgment, and thought formation. She also suffered from significant wandering and hoarding behavior, with auditory and visual hallucination. For instance, she was found “shouting at the mirror”. She had been living alone and was able to carry out her daily tasks despite the presence of chronic cognitive deficits, but her ability to carry out executive functioning has been impaired by the worsening behavioral issue.
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One key therapy that seems to work well with this patient is called “Doll therapy”. She was given two baby dolls which she thinks of them as real babies and keeps her busy in her room. Furthermore, I think that she has been living alone and has, that she relate to the doll as her baby. Her wandering behavior can also be related to the hoarding disorder as she looks for objects to hoard.
There is a TV show called “Hoarding: Buried Alive “explores this issue by showing the impact of this in the normal life functioning and how it affects others in the environment. The struggle of the individual with hoarding disorder as well as the struggle that the family faces is clearly depicted. Many of the cases of this issue in this program are related to PTSD and hoarding bringing in comfort and security. Has anyone watched this show? If you have Do you think the portrayal of the hoarding disorder is justified?
Question to ponder, Executive functioning has been correlated with many cognitive deficits but do you believe it declines with
One key therapy that seems to work well with this patient is called “Doll therapy”. She was given two baby dolls which she thinks of them as real babies and keeps her busy in her room. Furthermore, I think that she has been living alone and has, that she relate to the doll as her baby. Her wandering behavior can also be related to the hoarding disorder as she looks for objects to hoard.
There is a TV show called “Hoarding: Buried Alive “explores this issue by showing the impact of this in the normal life functioning and how it affects others in the environment. The struggle of the individual with hoarding disorder as well as the struggle that the family faces is clearly depicted. Many of the cases of this issue in this program are related to PTSD and hoarding bringing in comfort and security. Has anyone watched this show? If you have Do you think the portrayal of the hoarding disorder is justified?
Question to ponder, Executive functioning has been correlated with many cognitive deficits but do you believe it declines with