Story of a paper hoarder...

[clutterwarrior]

I found this quite fascinating to read this case study of a woman who is a hoarder...she is in fact a librarian, who struggles to organize her own books and paper.

It struck a chord with me in one sense that, despite not being a hoarder myself, I have experienced that confusion and difficulty working out what to keep and what not to keep!

Thought some of you may be interested...

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...ryId=126386317

[IsaFrench]

thank you for posting the link ....
I find the story of Irène very compelling reading ..it IS fascinating to me and I'm sure I can learn a lot from it ....
... now, my dilemma is that I'm presently starting a 6 hours ALONE stretch of time , which is very rare & since my attention deficit makes it hard for me to progress when having to do tasks whislt being interrupted, this is IDEAL time for me to get going

so I'm going to have to leave the computer for now (I saved the link of future reading .... LOL, my first idea was to print the story of Irène and start highlighting bits of it = more paper clutter)

and start going through/adding to my to-do-list
in spite of the accompanying anxieties about getting rid of stuff
... am trying to focus on how to organize what I want to keep (so that I don't feel like I'm throwing away "ALL of what my life is all about" ...)

[sunshineafterrain]

Thank you, that was really interesting.
I will look for the book too

My grandparents were hoarders and my mom- I grew up in a very disorganized house that was full of too much stuff, to put it mildly; but I can remember all the rooms being up to my knees in stuff, the furniture covered, the counters...the embarrassment

I am glad this is becoming a known phenomenon; there is *so* much shame and embarrassment surrounding it, and it just seems so lazy, like "if they'd just clean up, throw it out...." but it's not that simple

My mom struggled with mental health issues, and I am pretty convinced that she must have had ADHD too, Also, the perfectionism, the seeing possibilities in everything, the wanting to save things and give things to other people, the depression...so much of it I have seen~ and I have alot of these traits myself but on a much lesser scale... but still enough to struggle with keeping things organized, and not burying myself

Thanks for sharing this