![]() David Tolin, director of the Anxiety Disorders Center at the Institute of Living in Hartford, Conn., has devoted his career to studying what goes on inside the mind of a hoarder. Allocca had accumulated so much stuff that she used her own house as a storage facility and lived with her mother.ĭr. Many hoarders are also compulsive shoppers. Brennan and her fiancé had been engaged for eight years, but he couldn't commit to marrying her because of the clutter. Her son couldn't bring friends home from school. Lorraine's purse was bursting with junk mail and receipts.īrennan's hoarding was not only ruining her life but affecting her entire family. The bedroom-office that she shared with her fiancé was overrun with stuff they'd tried unsuccessfully to get rid of at a yard sale. ![]() Most rooms in the house were cluttered, and some were even unusable. ![]() ![]() She lived in a two-story house in Massachusetts with her father, son and fiancé. In a 2007 interview with ABC News, Brennan said that she had been hoarding for nearly 20 years. We hoard, collect and buy more stuff than we have room to store.īut what if something in our brains made us incapable of throwing things out? Janie Allocca and Lorraine Brennan both live with a psychological disorder called compulsive hoarding - an urge to hold on to even the most mundane objects, even when they take over their lives. March 26, 2008— - We are all pack rats to some degree. ![]()
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