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Barriers to Clearing the Clutter? There are Solutions!
BARRIERS Making Decisions – How are you at making decisions? Difficulty or avoidance about making decisions can be a real barrier to clearing the clutter. What do you think of this expression? “Clutter is really just deferred decision making” … Continue reading
How to Help Your Loved One who has Hoarding Disorder? Part 2
What do you do when your loved one is not motivated to make changes to make their place safer and healthier? What will motivate them to want to make change? How can you help your loved one who has hoarding disorder? … Continue reading
How to Help Your Loved One who has Hoarding Disorder? Part 1
What do you do when your loved one is not motivated to make changes to make their place safer and healthier? What will motivate them to want to make change? How can you help your loved one who has hoarding … Continue reading
How to Help your Family Member who has Hoarding Disorder
Do you have a family member who is struggling with hoarding? Have you tried to help them only to be left feeling frustrated and feeling angry with each other? This is certainly a huge challenge that I am sure would … Continue reading
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Tagged chronic disorganization, facing eviction, families, hoarding, hoarding crisis
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How Much Difficulty Do You Have With Acquiring More Stuff?
Key #2 One of our first homework exercises we do in the Clearing Clutter Support Group and it is amazing what insights come out of this. Shopping, finding things, getting things given to you from well meaning friends or family, mail and flyers … Continue reading
Mental Health and Chronic Disorganization
What is the connection between Mental Health and Chronic Disorganization? It was once thought that OCD, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, was the main issue with individuals who were living with “Hoarding Disorder” (which was deemed a Mental Health Illness in the DSM 1V … Continue reading
Clutter, Acquiring and Letting Go – The Keys to Getting Started
Are you wondering how to start the de-cluttering process? It can be so overwhelming! It can feel easier to just throw our hands up and say “what is the use, I just don’t even know where to start so why … Continue reading
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Tagged chronic disorganization, hoarding, Making Change
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My Best Tips for Organizing Success
I found this list of tips in my handouts and have expanded on each of them for you. Hope they help you with your organizing success. OHIO – Only Handle it Once! This can be a hard one for all … Continue reading
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Tagged chronic disorganization, Clutter Challenges, goal setting, hoarding
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Hoarding, Acquiring, Saving, Letting Go, Awareness, Action = Hope
Some people might think that there is no hope for someone who has a hoarding problem and I am not about to make light of it at all because as we know it is a very challenging issue. But…..there are … Continue reading
How to Determine if Your Client is Just Being Willful or Struggling with OCPD
Is there a difference between OCD Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and OCPD Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder? This was originally posted on April 25, 2015 at http://smarthappyorganized.com/tidy-and-messy-at-the-same-time-a-look-at-ocpd-and-hoarding/ There can be overlapping symptoms at times so it can be very confusing. It was … Continue reading