To someone without a hoarding problem, the mental illness may seem easily curable: Just throw everything away. For someone who suffers from a hoarding disorder, however, it’s never that easy. “You can ...

An Irwin-based organization that strives to address blight-related problems is proposing to provide mental health services to those with hoarding disorders. “There’s no formal program (for treating ...

Behind closed doors across the country, millions of individuals are quietly overwhelmed by something most of us take for granted: our relationship with things we bring into our homes. The ...

My dad has always been a pack rat, but since mom died a few years ago he’s become more of a hoarder. The clutter in his house ...

Walk into any animal shelter, and it’s hard not to be overcome with the desire to give every single pair of pleading eyes a home. Pair that with the commercials about homeless pets suffering on the ...

CHICOPEE — At 35 Campbell Place, to the dismay of neighbors, trash, car parts and other items fill the yard on the narrow street. Like other instances of hoarding, the case has frustrated cleanup ...

The Dane County Department of Human Services has completed its hoarding clean-up initiative, as a result of one-time grant funding to provide additional services to older adults at risk of losing ...