This comprehensive guide discusses the entire spectrum of obsessive compulsive disorders, from the classic form characterized by intrusive, repetitive, and often unpleasant thoughts, to body dysmorphic disorder (“imagined ugliness”), trichotillomania, compulsive skin picking, and nail biting.
The House that Held Everything: A Family’s Hidden Hoarding and the Secrets Left Behind
The author inherits the childhood home of a deceased cousin and finds rooms filled wall to wall, floor to ceiling, with piled up items from years of secret hoarding. As she separates significant items from garbage, she peels apart and exposes the emotional underpinnings of hoarding.