Hoarding in North Carolina

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RALEIGH, N.C., May 15, 2014 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- North Carolina is a start the people often recognize as one of the 13 original colonies in these United States. However, what is not often noted that is also a leading state for hoarders as well, hence why a company is focusing on North Carolina hoarding cleanup. They generally tend to congregate in the larger cities in North Carolina such as Asheville, Greensboro, and Chapel Hill. What you may not realize is that even some of your neighbors' maybe hoarders and you would have thought none the wiser. Often these individuals are private and acknowledge the fact that they tend to keep their situations private to a point where their family's do not even know.

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Hoarding has only recently come to the forefront of national attention, and has only recently been attributed OCD which is a medical condition. OCD or obsessive compulsive disorder has become associated with hoarding, because the individuals who are hoarders are often obsessed with their items. And they have a compulsion to collect the items. Often these items vary widely in size, what they are, and why they are collecting them for a particular reason. Often you find these as hoarding faqs.

The items that these individuals tend to collect are items, which many individuals would see as useless or obsolete. Examples of this may include a large amount of bottle openers or possibly old televisions that they think can be useful again. They see the throwing away of a particular item as a wasteful, and often defend their choices. That is the obsessive nature about the hoarding, these individuals are obsessed over the smallest to largest items. What they do not see is that some of these items could be harmful to their loved ones or their own personal safety. Another issue that hoarders associate with the symptoms of OCD is compulsion.

Compulsion is another factor that plays into a cause of hoarding in North Carolina. These individuals have a compulsive desire to want more and more items. This is an unconscious desire to purchase or gather items is something that is inherent in an obsessive compulsive disorder situation. The constant purchasing of similar items or any items for that seems to be an unconscious symptom of wanting. In this case it turns into a hoarding situation just because of the sheer volume of the purchases overcomes, the individuals living area. Now you are wondering what you should do to solve this situation.

What you should do is hire a professional hoarding cleanup company to help these individuals. They specialize in addressing the issues that come with hoarding and can help these individuals address their mess.  In North Carolina there are many people who need help from a company like this and hopefully we can help these people solve their hoarding issues. 

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