| Shannon | Posted: 06 June 2020 - 11:59 AM |
Hi! I'm desperately seeking help for my teenage daughter who is starting to exhibit hoarder tendencies. This is not typical teenage messy bedroom. This is cat feces not being cleaned, piles of garbage, moldy food everywhere, no way to walk though everything on the floor. Piles and piles of men's oversized sweatshirts and she won't stop buying them even though there is no need for a 27th sweatshirt. No where to store them. 11 backpacks, all full of papers, garbage, mold, house keys she keeps losing, homework she forgot to turn in. She never cleans out a backpack, just hides it and gets a new one. The distress she exhibits when we try to clean, just a little, is enormous. I'm worried for her and it's been really difficult trying to find help for her issues. 🙁 | |
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| Tillie | Posted: 06 June 2020 - 06:39 PM |
Hello Shannon Have you considered counseling? There may be and probably are other reasons for this neglect she is displaying. Hoarding behavior so often comes from some kind of trauma experienced when people are younger. Good luck and best wishes to the both of you. | |