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What is the medical name for a person who is unable to throw anything away?
Answer: Hoarding...The condition is called Compulsive Hoarding Disorder. It's a form of OCD and it is treatable. Specialized therapy and medications can sometimes help. Compulsive hoarding is a serious medical condition and mental disorder. While it is treatable, people with compulsive hoarding are often suffering, especially when it's severe. See the related links for more information on compulsive pathological hoarding.
Are continuous images of a gay video a symptom of obsessive compulsive disorder?
It could be.
What is hoarding disorder?
Hoarding disorder is when you keep everything you get and see!
Is kleptomaniac an obsessive compulsive disorder?
Kleptomania is frequently thought of as being a part of obsessive-compulsive disorder, since the irresistible and uncontrollable actions are similar to the frequently excessive, unnecessary and unwanted rituals of OCD. Some individuals with kleptomania demonstrate hoarding symptoms that resemble those with OCD.
What disorder is characterized by recurring unwanted thoughts followed by certain repetitive behaviors?
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.
Can you get obsessive compulsive disorder from staphylococcus?
No. Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder is an anxiety disorder.
Is stealing a mental disorder?
Generally, no. Stealing for profit is a typical, though unsavory, normal, human behavior. If the stealing is compulsive, however, with no regard to value, and with no recognition that the act constitutes theft, it is a kind of hoarding behavior associated with certain personality disorders, most common are Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Boderline Personality Disorder, Schizoid Personality Disorder, as well as certain neurological injuries.
What are the symptoms of compulsive hoarding?
a very cluttered living space
What were the Collyers brothers famous for?
The Collyers brother refers to Homer Lusk and Langely Wakeman Collyer, both are of American nationality. The Collyers are famous for their compulsive hoarding. In physiological terminology is is also known as pathological collecting, which is an obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD).
Is obsessive compulsive disorder a mood disorder?
No, it is a behavioral disorder.
A person that hoards?
A person that hoards is called a hoarder. A hoarder collects and keeps so many items even if they are of no use and of little value to most people. Hoarding is considered as a type of obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Can paranoia make you unsure whether if you did something or not?
Paranoia could certainly make you unsure that you did or did not do something. It is also a symptom of obsessive compulsive disorder that paranoid people can also have.
