That Hoarder: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding

If you tackle a smaller task, your sense of achievement will power you on to the next task. And your enthusiasm for the project is likely to last longer. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Reddit: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"If you give it to your brother, and he puts it in the bin, then it's in the bin. If you give it to an animal shelter and they put it in the bin, then it's in the bin. If you give it to Oxfam, and they put it in the bin, then it's in the bin. So the key is to put it in the bin yourself and not force other people to be part of this dysfunctional chain. Because you're creating work and costing people money." For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Reddit: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Most hoarders need some degree of professional help if they're going to get through this problem. But the number of therapies available is overwhelming and bewildering. So today, we're going to talk about some of the types of therapy on offer for hoarding disorder. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Reddit: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project  Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

If you can work out exactly what's tripping you up, exactly what is making you need to get distracted, that's immensely helpful. Because if you can address those worries in yourself, you may find that you're just more capable of staying on the task at hand when you don't have whatever fear or worry it is hanging around For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Reddit: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your home does not exist to hold on to the ghosts of everybody you've ever met, or every dream you've ever had, or every purchase you ever made. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Reddit: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project  Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"If we are to continuously dehoard and if, should we achieve a normal home, we want to maintain it, then we need to have habits rather than just one-off actions. And creating habits is something that I think about a lot. And I've tried lots of things, and some of them have worked, and a lot haven't."   For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Reddit: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project  Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"I think that the differences in presentation and behaviour has to do with what is at the heart of perfectionism, which is fear of failure"   For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Reddit: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project  Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"The benefit of these systems or processes is it removes one barrier. And that barrier is having to make decisions, and making decisions is tiring and it's difficult and it ties me up in knots." For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Reddit: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project  Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

"I thought, Gosh, this is easy. I wonder if this is how people who aren't hoarders just go about cleaning and tidying, they just see something that needs doing and do it" For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Reddit: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project  Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You will find that you say “okay, I might be anxious at the prospect of running out of carrier bags. But now I'm putting every carrier bag I find in the same place, I realise I'm seriously not going to run out of carrier bags for at least six years.” For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Reddit: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder podcast Help out: Support this project  Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.