Online chat to help with hoarding

a psychologist held an online chat to help people with hoarding, you can read more about the chat:

"There are TV shows about hoarders and support groups for the children of hoarders. There is a push to make hoarding a separate mental illness and a new story about a hoarder pops up, it seems, every few weeks. We hear about animal hoarders and people who die in fires because their homes are so packed with stuff. The stories are revolting and fascinating and perplexing, all at the same time.
Why do people hoard? Do you know somebody who is a hoarder? What should you do to help them?
Randy Frost, a professor of psychology at Smith College in Massachusetts, is one of the nation’s top experts in hoarding. Frost and Gail Steketee, a professor and dean of the school of social work at Boston University, have co-written a book, “Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things.”"

read the rest and see the chat here: http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2010101124045

thanks for sharing this! i definitely am going to read through the chat. i have family members that i am worried will become really serious hoarders, but i don’t know the right way to talk to them.

glad it helped, seems like hoarding is a big problem nowadays.