Understanding People With Compulsive Hoarding Disorder
Obviously, compulsive hoarding disorders have been observed among many societies even before reality TV shows started to feature and focus the mass' attention on it.
It is only in this period, however, that people are actually determined to find solutions in order to fight it.
Unfortunately, trying to get over this disorder requires a lot of mental and emotional efforts from the person with the sickness himself, and from his family.
Most people who are unfamiliar with it tend to look at this disorder in a social point of view, and start to discriminate the person suffering from it.
This illness leads the persons inflicted to store materials (even animals) in their houses.
Although this seems pretty harmless in the beginning, this habit eventually turns hoarders' homes into a crowded storeroom with no place for them to perform their normal essential activities.
What we all have to understand, though, is that this is a medical condition that needs to be tended.
Most people who suffer this illness have encountered a traumatic experience or loss in their lives and have turned to hoarding to substitute for their losses.
These people need medical, particularly psychological, care to help him get over this habit.
Various emerging medications have come up in an attempt to fight compulsive hoarding.
Drugs like Paxil, Risperidone and Olanzapine are some medicines that people with this sickness are advised to take to aid them in their recovery.
Being a "new" disease, however, these innovations still need further studies and improvements regarding their effectiveness.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), on the other hand, is a process involving admittance and realization from the person with the said illness.
This therapy requires the therapist to visit the person's house and allow him to discuss the hoarded things and, through their discussions, discover why he wanted to keep those things.
Ideally, the person will realize what he has been doing, and opt to improve his lifestyle and let go of all the objects he has been storing in his house.
Despite these developments, however, a patient cannot proceed to taking those medicines or undergoing the said therapy without first admitting that he is suffering from compulsive hoarding disorder.
Unfortunately, this step is the most difficult move to accomplish.
Some people find it difficult to face that they are under the said disorder and opt to shut the people to intend to help them out of their lives.
It is only in this period, however, that people are actually determined to find solutions in order to fight it.
Unfortunately, trying to get over this disorder requires a lot of mental and emotional efforts from the person with the sickness himself, and from his family.
Most people who are unfamiliar with it tend to look at this disorder in a social point of view, and start to discriminate the person suffering from it.
This illness leads the persons inflicted to store materials (even animals) in their houses.
Although this seems pretty harmless in the beginning, this habit eventually turns hoarders' homes into a crowded storeroom with no place for them to perform their normal essential activities.
What we all have to understand, though, is that this is a medical condition that needs to be tended.
Most people who suffer this illness have encountered a traumatic experience or loss in their lives and have turned to hoarding to substitute for their losses.
These people need medical, particularly psychological, care to help him get over this habit.
Various emerging medications have come up in an attempt to fight compulsive hoarding.
Drugs like Paxil, Risperidone and Olanzapine are some medicines that people with this sickness are advised to take to aid them in their recovery.
Being a "new" disease, however, these innovations still need further studies and improvements regarding their effectiveness.
Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), on the other hand, is a process involving admittance and realization from the person with the said illness.
This therapy requires the therapist to visit the person's house and allow him to discuss the hoarded things and, through their discussions, discover why he wanted to keep those things.
Ideally, the person will realize what he has been doing, and opt to improve his lifestyle and let go of all the objects he has been storing in his house.
Despite these developments, however, a patient cannot proceed to taking those medicines or undergoing the said therapy without first admitting that he is suffering from compulsive hoarding disorder.
Unfortunately, this step is the most difficult move to accomplish.
Some people find it difficult to face that they are under the said disorder and opt to shut the people to intend to help them out of their lives.