How to Treat a Hoarding Disorder

The classic therapeutic approach would be cognitive behavioral therapy with some motivational interviewing. Then there's exposure response prevention, which is trying to help people reduce their shopaholic sense of compulsion. There are peer peer support groups, the classic ones are called buried in treasures and are usually run by self-identified peers. And oftentimes when you've got a frustrated management company or once it's say, you've got two weeks to clean up your act, it's very hard. So that sort of brings us to an important point where hoarding disorder, being a psychiatric diagnosis also makes it a disability.