
Hoarders and Shop-a-Holics: Empty Inside
Dr. Gary Bell's Absurd Psychology
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The Psychology of Hoarding
The psychology is once again basically all about what causes someone to become a hoarder. Their hoarding tendencies usually begin around 11-15 and during these early teenage years they typically say broken toys, outdated school papers, pencils nubs. Also from trauma many hoarders experience a stressful or a traumatic event that propels them into hoarding such as the coping mechanism. And also hoarders are often socially withdrawn and isolated but they don't necessarily have had that tendency when they were younger.
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