In the past, hoarding has been considered as a subcategory of OCD - Obsessive Compulsive Disorder.  OCD is a mental health disorder that is characterized by obsessive thoughts, most typically about bad things that could happen to the sufferer or one's loved ones.  The obsessive thoughts are followed by compulsive actions that one believes will keep the thoughts in check or prevent bad things from happening.  However, in recent years, research is finding distinctions between the two and has led the new, fifth edition of the DSM - Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to include a separate disgnosis for Hoarding Disorder.

In this Episode, Dr BB educates her audience on this fairly new mental disorder - Hoarding Disorder.  She explains what compulsive hoarding is and the difference between OCD and HD (based on the DSM-V definition.)

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