Ep. 278 | Hoarders

Joshua and Ryan talk about hoarding—the clinical definition, the statistics, the causes, the symptoms, the common types, the risks, the recovery. Watch “Maximal” episodes of The Minimalists Private Podcast exclusively at   / theminimalists  

Questions answered in this episode:

00:00 What is the clinical definition of “hoarding”?

03:05 What is “spartanism”?

05:13 What are the common types of hoarding?

09:00 What is the difference between hoarding and collecting?

10:32 What is the “sunk-cost fallacy”?

21:26 What are the symptoms of hoarding?

23:00 What are the causes of hoarding?

27:21 How is hoarding diagnosed?

29:11 Do children hoard?

31:08 When do obsessions become unhealthy?

31:34 What are the five levels of hoarding?

42:47 Are there affluent hoarders?

44:46 How does one become a hoarder?

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