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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dear Annie: I have a brother-in-law that I need help with but don’t know where to turn. He’s a hoarder. The house he lives in belonged to his parents, but it is now full of junk, and he does nothing ...