278 | Hoarders

Joshua and Ryan talk about hoarding—the clinical definition, the statistics, the causes, the symptoms, the common types, the risks, the recovery—and they answer the following questions: What is the clinical definition of “hoarding”? (03:00) What is “spartanism”? (03:35) What are the common types of hoarding? (05:43) What is the difference between hoarding and collecting? (09:30) What is the “sunk-cost fallacy”? (11:02) What are the symptoms of hoarding? (21:56) What are the causes of hoarding? (23:30) How is hoarding diagnosed? (27:51) Do children hoard? (29:41) When do obsessions become unhealthy? (31:38) What are the five levels of hoarding? (32:04) Are there affluent hoarders? (43:17) How does one become a hoarder? (45:16) Detailed show notes: minimalists.com/podcast Support The Minimalists: minimalists.com/support