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Abstract
Disordered behavior associated with clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning and persistent difficulty parting with possessions due to a perceived need to save the items and distress associated with discarding them. (from DSM-V) The quantity of collected items sets the behavior apart from normal collecting behaviors.
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- Disorders, Hoarding
- Hoarding Disorders
- Obsessive Hoarding
- Hoarding, Obsessive
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31 allowable subheadings
Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.
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differentiate from HOARDING
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2016
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WM 176
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Hoarding Disorder. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000067836. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000067836
- Hoarding Disorder. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoarding_disorder
- Hoarding Disorder. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q195941