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Anyone with Hoarding OCD and how you cope up?

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Does anyone have hoarding OCD with strategies and thearpy techniques sorcifically for this theme?

I feel like I need to feel the sun because it will go after sunset. There are times I can’t easily throw unnecessary things even junk or garbage. I feel I will run out of food in fridge so there are soecific items like a certain fruit or tomato or milk that needs to be there constantly. Otherwise, I feel so anxious when I ran out of it at night and has to wait morning to buy. Or just the thought of not having it makes me so anxious at times. I fight it as everyone says so that do the opposite of your OCD. Just feel the anxiety creep in while I don’t do the compulsion of buying that item in the middle of the night or just buying it when I have compulsion. I resist buying. It’s hard. Even memories sometimes I have the urge to remember names or I have compulsion to take photos to have something to hold on to.

I think hoarding ocd is more on not being able to let go of things easily and fear of losing and running out of things.

It would help to know there’s someone like me and it would be great to know that someone like me overcame it and rose above it and is now better!

Hope is an essential tool to all of us experiencing things like these.

Thanks!

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nkotbjoeymc

Same.

My Apartment Is Clutterred But Not Sure If It’s Considered As Hoarding.

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Playonwords

This might seem silly, but have you watched the tv show Hoarders? There are good suggestions in those episodes, although it might be triggering for you.

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RATASHIQ

I too have a clutter/hoarding disorder, I was officially diagnosed in 2014 but had the issues since my teens. You can contact me on my facebook page and I can tag you in the resources I use, I attend online support groups 3x week Here is a link to my page facebook.com/ratashiq/

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alexandraisobsessedIOCDF Advocate

Hello,

I don’t know if you have Instagram TV or Instagram, but the IOCDF just did a very informative livestream about Hoarding yesterday.

instagram.com/tv/CSCvsbcKUn...

There is the link!

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