Hoarding is a largely misunderstood mental disorder that health and safety officials in Mass. struggle to get their arms around. ... We had to put a fence up around our yard,” she said.

The Story of Hoarding. ... The paint was peeling, and the fence needed mending. A car parked in the driveway was packed with papers and clothes. I had brought along my student assistant, ...

Many compulsive hoarding patients will build high privacy fences to conceal and protect their belongings. Just like the Jacksonville case, you can notice these with a street level drive-by.

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Hoarding disorder is a condition recognized in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (D.S.M.), and, as in your mother’s case, it is frequently associated with other ...