I’m a psychologist — here are 3 ways to tell if you’re a secret hoarder
NY Post
Hoarding disorder affects about 2.6% of all adults, especially those who are older than 60 and suffer from anxiety and depression.
Now, Dr. David Tolin, a clinical psychologist who is featured on the A&E series “Hoarders” — Season 15 premiered last week — is sharing three ways to tell if you are secretly a hoarder.
“Hoarding disorder is a psychiatric condition that is characterized by extreme difficulty discarding or otherwise letting go of possessions,” Tolin explained to the Daily Mail in a new interview.
“[This] results in the clutter building up to the point where living areas in the home are no longer usable for their intended purpose,” he continued.
Hoarders get very attached to their possessions, he noted, often making their homes unlivable or unsafe.
He shared three common types of attachments hoarders have to the objects they amass — sentimental, utilization-based, and aesthetic attachments.
The killing of Iran’s tyrannical Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday in an unprecedented joint military attack by the US and Israel called Operation Epic Fury set off widespread celebrations from Iranians around the world — as President Trump said it would give them their “greatest chance” to “take back the country.” Meanwhile, in Iran, a lack of internet has made it impossible for Iranians to easily communicate daily conditions. Over a period of three days, with limited VPN connection, an eyewitness currently in Tehran — who, for her safety, is concealing her identity — shared her account of life under a country in the midst of battle with The Post’s Natasha Pearlman.
After exactly 120 years, the curtain has fallen on the Theater District institution Barbetta, with the iconic Italian restaurant having served its final course Friday night.