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    creates a distinctive balance between emotional and logical appeal. Throughout the essay Schutza presents many facts, examples, and professional opinions to persuade the reader that hoarding provides hoarders a sense of security. Providing personal experiences and presenting an example of her own connection with hoarding memoranda appeals to emotion, as everyone has the habit of holding on to memories they don’t want to forget. However, of the two techniques used to support her argument pathos…

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    Hoarding is the ongoing difficulty in separating or letting go of a possession due to a need or desire to keep it(DSM-V, 2014). It affects about two to six percent of Americans and a bit of Europeans as well(DSM-V, 2014). Parting with anything the holder owns will be a difficult task as even a tiny thought of letting go will leave that person with a feeling of sorrow as the hoarder has either a sentimental value or a feeling they will use it in the future, they may also feel safer when near…

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    Dead. This man is dead. Jdimytai Damour was killed on Black Friday, 2008, at a local Walmart in New York by being trampled. Crazy, deal seeking mothers and fathers did not stop cramming into the doors so their child could have the latest trending toy that would be out of style in three months. They just watched as a man died before their eyes. When did we start being more interested in the stuff we want then in the stuff we need? As years go by, people are losing interest in sentimental and…

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    The story is about a hoarder named Dorothy, she likes to keeps everything. Dorothy’s hoarding has gotten so bad that her daughter Hannah has to take action in order to save her mother. Hannah proceeds to call for help for her mother problem. However, Dorothy refuses to have her daughter help her because she wants to keep her stuff. Dorothy also seems to have and OCD problem because she obsessively flicks the lights on and off and counts them. Hannah calls David who is a psychiatrist, Dorothy…

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    effects of hoarding consequences such as fire or falling, decline help or agreeing to participate in studies for fear of being reported. Such a reluctance to participate poses a serious problem for researchers studying hoarding among elderly (Steketee, Schmalisch, Dierberger, DeNobel, & Frost, 2012). Results are limited or cannot be based on reliable reports due to lack of participation by study participants and the fact that those that do agree to participate minimized their hoarding…

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    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…

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    her situation any better. As a child, she never thought she would be like this when she dreamed about her future. Sadly, this woman has a hoarding problem. “Compulsive hoarding is defined as the acquisition of a large number of possessions with failure to discard them” (Iervolino, Perroud, Fallana, Guipponi, Cherkas, Collier, & Mataix-Cols, 2009, p. 1156). Hoarding is triggered by a person’s health; mood disorders, personality disorders, eating…

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    categorisation of mental illness, this essay will focus on the chapter of Obsessive-Compulsive Related Disorders (OCRDs) from the current edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-V). An emphasis will be placed on hoarding disorder (HD), a newly recognised disorder characterised by the compulsive acquisition of objects, with persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions, and significant associated distress and/or functional impairment (Steketee,…

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    Schutza Case Study

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    personal artifacts” (Schutza 257). We cannot blame ourselves for picking up this type of behavior, after all the media has done an excellent job into talking us to buy useless products we do not need. Schutza did not develop an explicit solution to hoarding because it is still a recent disorder that has not been around for many years. Maybe for this reason she was not able to provide us with an answer as to how we must manage this issue. Although, hoarders do set goals for cleaning up their…

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    Ariel Hoarding Case Study

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    diagnosed with Hoarding Disorder which is a pathological disorder characterized by cluttering of objects and the need to keep everything regardless of value(DSM-V). This is due to her tendencies to keep a large amount of seemingly useless objects while never discarding anything. She shows the tendencies to keep her objects hidden which is more consistent with hoarding rather than Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder. The specific criteria is listed as follows:…

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