The article “Inside the Hoarder’s Brain: A Unique Problem with Decision-Making” by Maia Szalavitz focuses on why some people decide to keep items that other people would choose to throw away. Although hoarding was thought to be a subtype of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) before, but this article offers new research that shows hoarding should be separated from this disorder. Dr. Eric Hollander commented in response to the research: hoarding symptoms overlap completely with OCD symptoms about 18% of the time, strengthening the notion that hoarding is not a subtype of OCD. The experiment that was conducted involved 107 people, and of those people 33 were normal controls, 43 were hoarders, and 31 with OCD. These people were all asked to bring
