How Does Hoarding Affect Society

When people think about mental illnesses, they generally do not think about compulsive hoarding. Hoarding in households has become more superficial in more recent years. Why people acquire many worthless items still has not become a clear-cut reason. In The Tortured Lives of People Who Can’t Throw Things Out, authors Cecile Bouchardeau and Monica Delarosa said, “We are all pack rats to some degree.” Everyone has a tendency to hold on to belongings that no longer have meaning to possess, but not everyone has something within that makes them incapable of disposing of possessions.
Society may find hoarders as humorous because there are not many people who obsessively keep useless objects in their living space. Although many people go through periods of times where they keep useless object, they generally can get ride of the clutter. The problem is that many people do not really understand how people can accumulate an ample quantity of possessions to the point where they can barely move in their house. A person accumulating a copious amount belonging is seen as humorous to society. The issue is that people in society do not truly understand the affects of what hoarding does to the hoarder …show more content…
Those who are hoarding cannot help but keep every day objects that others throw away/ recycle. A person who maintains a significant amount of possessions is not one who is happy. People who hoard generally come off as melancholy. Hoarders are that way because their collection of clutter has damaged relationships with their family and friends. The clutter is bothersome to the family because they no longer have their own space. Families living with a hoarder are confined into spaces where they cannot move freely and may not have necessary utilities that should be working. Many hazards are apparent when general cleanliness cannot be done along with a variant amount of trip hazards or even debris falling on individuals in the