{"id":1394,"date":"2011-03-12T08:48:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-12T13:48:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/childrenofhoarders.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=1394"},"modified":"2013-05-29T14:06:07","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T18:06:07","slug":"in-other-countries","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/?page_id=1394","title":{"rendered":"Other Countries Hoarding Documented"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/childrenofhoarders.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cntrs.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4671\" title=\"cntrs\" src=\"http:\/\/childrenofhoarders.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cntrs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cntrs.jpg 408w, https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cntrs-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/legacy.childrenofhoarders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/cntrs-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also visit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hoardingtaskforce.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\nInternational Exchange on Hoarding<\/a><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Australia<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>When Clutter Goes Out Of Control,<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.readersdigest.com.au\/when-clutter-goes-out-of-control\"> Readers Digest, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Australia<\/span><\/a>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThis is not an extension of laziness,\u201d explains Jessica Grisham, an  academic from the University of New South Wales who specialises in OCD  and compulsive hoarding. \u201cIt\u2019s a psychological disorder. Some hoarding  patients can get so anxious at the thought of throwing things away that  they become physically ill. They will not get better without treatment.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/peterhbrown.wordpress.com\/2010\/04\/10\/compulsive-collecting-finding-hope-in-the-misunderstood-world-of-hoarders\/\" target=\"_blank\">Compulsive Collecting: Finding Hope In The Misunderstood Mess of Hoarding<\/a>, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Australia<\/span>:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>Some experts think between 200,000 and 500,000 Australians compulsively hoard, but others put the figure closer to 800,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a sleeping giant,\u201d Chris Mogan, a clinical psychologist and  expert on hoarding, says. \u201cThere is no systematic estimate of how many  hoarders there are in any Australian setting. I suspect there are many,  many more out there than we are aware of.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><strong>Canada<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Compulsive Hoarding: When it Goes Beyond Clutter-<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/n2\/content\/view\/41871\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hoarding behaviour a growing health risk for seniors<\/a>, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Ottawa, Canada<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cI\u2019ve found some pretty deplorable conditions that people are living in  as the cost of sort of maintaining their independence, because they\u2019re  afraid that one thing will lead to another,\u201d says Elaine Birchell, an  Ottawa-based hoarding intervention specialist.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><strong>UK<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/603058\" target=\"_blank\">Possessed film-<\/a><\/span>By Martin Hampton, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">United Kingdom<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.offthefence.com\/content\/programme.php?ID=454\" target=\"_blank\">Extraordinary Hoarders film, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">United Kingdom<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>1 in 200 Brits is a hoarder: someone who can\u2019t stop collecting things \u2013 but can\u2019t bear to throw them out. Hoarding is a form of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. But it\u2019s a condition filled with shame and guilt. In fact, hoarders are so secretive that even their closest friends might not know the truth\u2026.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Dagenham-based 48-year old William is the first man in Britain to receive an ASBO for hoarding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><strong>Japan<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/20414175\" target=\"_blank\">Clinical features and treatment characteristics of compulsive hoarding in<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> Japanese<\/span> patients with obsessive-compulsive disorder.<\/a> Osaka City University, Graduate School of Medicine, <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Japan.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>VOA: Voice On America, 2\/22\/11-<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/learningenglish\/home\/compulsive-hoarding--116613333.html\" target=\"_blank\">Compulsive Hoarders, What Are They Thinking<\/a>?:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><strong>K. Ken<\/strong> (Japan)There  are many hoarders in Japan too. It looks very difficult to  draw a line  between healthy hoarding and unhealty one. Especially in our  country,  the spirit of Mottainai is respected and practiced by many  people. So,  some boarders are even proud of themselves because they  believe they  are doing a right thing.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Maki<\/strong> (Japan)<br \/>\nWe&#8217;re in the same boat in Japan as some people hoard unnecessary   things. But not so much television audience has realized it as a   syndrome. We see those people curiously rather than out of pity.   Regardless of sex, women also hoard things here. Many neighbors are at a   loss to the reek as well as the amount. It&#8217;s a shame that city   officials can intervene to rid of garbage only when their property   spills onto a public road.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><strong>Russia<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>VOA: Voice On America, 2\/22\/11-<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.voanews.com\/learningenglish\/home\/compulsive-hoarding--116613333.html\" target=\"_blank\">Compulsive Hoarders, What Are They Thinking<\/a>?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Alexander<\/strong> (<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Russia<\/span>)<br \/>\nMy mother is a great hoarder. She keeps the thousands of unusable things in her flat and doesn&#8217;t want to throw away them.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>From a member of the COH Yahoo Group:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/english.pravda.ru\/society\/family\/02-11-2010\/115625-modern_women-0\/\" target=\"_blank\">Russia&#8217;s Pravda Newspaper<\/a>:Evidently in Russia they call it &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Plyushkin\" target=\"_blank\">Plyushkin&#8217;s Syndrome<\/a>&#8221; after a character in a novel (<em>Dead Souls<\/em>) by Gogol.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote>\n<h2><strong>Other<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n<p><strong>ewon<\/strong> (<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">North Borneo<\/span>)<br \/>\nYes this mental disorder also exists in my country.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Anna<\/strong> (<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Belarus<\/span>)<br \/>\nMy schoolmate&#8217;s mother was saffering from this disease. We tryed  to throw away some stuff when she was out, but she always  went to the  junk  to bring everything back and to take something over. It was  awfull. There was just narrow path in the room to walk.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2><strong>Associations related to compulsive hoarding:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aapo.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\">Australasian Association of Professional Organisers<\/a> (AAPO)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.organizersincanada.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Professional Organizers of Canada<\/a> (POC)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smith.edu\/insight\/stories\/clutter.php\" target=\"_blank\">Professional Organizers of the Netherlands<\/a><br \/>\nFirst International Congress on Compulsive Hoarding held in the  Netherlands on the 16 June 2010 at Maasen just outside Amsterdam.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/jalo.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">Japan Assn of Life Organizers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>(Some national listings in the U.S.):<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.challengingdisorganization.org\" target=\"_blank\">Institute for Challenging Disorganization<\/a> (formerly NSGCD)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.napo.net\/who\/\" target=\"_blank\">National Association Professional Organizers<\/a> (NAPO)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Also visit: International Exchange on Hoarding Australia When Clutter Goes Out Of Control, Readers Digest, Australia: \u201cThis is not an extension of laziness,\u201d explains Jessica Grisham, an academic from the University of New South Wales who specialises in OCD and compulsive hoarding. \u201cIt\u2019s a psychological disorder. 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