This week Time featured a video about a 75-year old granny named Franny Gray who is about to be evicted from her apartment after authorities found about some dangerous materials and possible fire hazardous piles. According to the story, Franny is a hoarder or is suffering from what is typically known as hoarding or compulsive hoarding. Gray is living alone at a rented apartment and authorities found out that the granny has been collecting volumes of newspapers and other things that made her place look like a garbage bin.
Compulsive hoarding is not yet classified as a disorder like obsessive-compulsive disorder but psychologists admit that this kind of disturbance exits. Unlike collectors, hoarders collects anything they might have normally of no value then having the difficulty to discard them. Hoarders are also called "pack rats" in relation to the attitudes rats possess.
There are now different types of hoarding and it affects children as well as adults most of the symptoms are associated with obsessive-compulsive disorder. In modern times, a yet another type of this disturbance surfaced known as the digital hoarding where in the "digital pack rat" collects files, programs, software, songs, porn clips, movies even if most of them are of no use.
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