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The awareness surrounding the issue of hoarding has grown since the reality series “Hoarders” and “Hoarders: Buried Alive” have gained in popularity. As a result, more folks are confronting their own hoarding tendencies and wondering whether or not it will ever get as bad as it shown on reality TV.Here are some facts about hoarding: compulsive hoarding affects anywhere between 700,000 to 1.4 million people in the US. Additionally, compulsive hoarding is often diagnosed as a form of obsessive-compulsive disorder or OCD. That’s because upwards of 42% of the people with OCD have been found to also have a compulsion to hoard. A person who becomes an obsessive hoarder actually begins their collecting in childhood but is not until they become an adult that the issue grows in severity.
In many cases, hoarding is more about the fear surrounding the idea of throwing something away as opposed to collecting or saving an item. When a compulsive hoarder thinks about throwing something away it triggers anxiety which in turn causes them to want to hang onto that item. Quite often hoarding runs in families. It’s also frequently associated with other mental health disorders like depression, social anxiety or bipolar disorder. One thing that many hoarders have in common is that they hardly ever recognize their problem. It’s only when other family members or friends stage an intervention does the issue become real for them.
For hoarders who have reached that severe level, therapists are often brought into the home to help these folks develop more effective behavior patterns. This could mean working for hours on end to clean out even a single drawer in the kitchen.
Hopefully, your own “collecting” hasn’t gone this far that requires professional treatment. The reason many of us hold onto junk is simply because we don’t have the means to throw it away. That no longer has to be the case in Stockton when you can call up Junk King Stockton and schedule a major removal session.
The crew from Junk King Stockton are decluttering specialists. They can instantly size up any amount of discarded junk and know what it will take to cart it away. The real issue becomes whether or not you want to throw that stuff away. Ask yourself why are you holding onto that old sofa? Do you really need all those car parts in the garage? Is anyone ever going to use that old sporting equipment again? Could you ever make anything out of the scraps of lumber left over from that remodel job? When you realize that you’re holding onto junk for no good reason that’s the time to bring in Junk King. The Junk King crew are fully licensed and insured. These are exactly the kind of workers you want to bring into your home. What Junk King Stockton will leave behind is wide open spaces in your garage, attic and closets. What you do with that space is all up to you!
Beginning back in October of 2010 the Department of Planning and Public Works which is a Division of Integrated Waste Management hosted a free tire recycling event. This was funded by a grant provided by the department a resources recycling and recovery. Over the course of the next several months five separate tire recycling events were held where a total of over 6,368 tires were collected by local residents and businesses. That’s great news for the Stockton area because it means that all of those tires didn’t end up in a landfill or dumped by the side of the road. Instead they were taken to a proper facility where they could be melted down and repurposed. But there was a problem that crept up and that was running out of grant money. In fact so many tires were brought to the previous events that last scheduled tire recycling event had to be canceled.
Starting in November California banks scheduled over 26,000 homes to be sold in foreclosure auctions. That represents a 63% increase over the amount of foreclosed auctions held in October. There are no signs that this surge is going to diminish in the coming year as California has the dubious honor of ranking among the nation’s largest number of foreclosed properties. Yet even with all that doom and gloom there is some good news to extract. While it is true that those homeowners will have a blemish on their credit history they will also have the opportunity to start fresh and rebuild their financial security. We would all be better off if we live within our means. On the other hand, all of those foreclosed property auctions means that somebody is buying up those properties and intends to make them viable once again.
Just as you can’t turn away from looking at an accident along the side of the road it’s hard to take just a passing glance at the reality show “Hoarders” without getting drawn into the complicated lives of the folks depicted there. The hoarders on that show are clearly dealing with some deep psychological trauma. If it was a common ailment we all have trash up to the rafters.
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