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The Evolution of Hoarding

There was one other kind of general explanation hypothesis that explains hoarding floating around and that is that we all have this innate evolutionary instinct to gather stuff. They think that in people who hoard this instinct has basically gone haywire. And the maps connected with another synapse that weren't supposed to be connected. Now all of a sudden this thing, this unnatural thing where you go to the grocery store, you buy some stuff, you keep it in your refrigerator for a week,. turns into you can't get enough Sunday circulars to possibly stave off these feelings of anxiety.

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