The following list of links is meant to provide you with information on hoarding and hoarding behaviours, a self test, and medical information about diagnosis and treatment for compulsive hoarding disoder.

Are you a hoarder?
Do you live with someone who has compulsive hoarding syndrome? This survey will help you see whether or not you might possibly have problems with excessive hoarding behaviours. No matter what the score is, you should seek help from a health professional if you have any concerns about yourself or your loved ones.

Vancouver Coastal Health provides access to a number of articles and resources on pathological or compulsive hoarding from eMentalHealth.ca, a non profit initiative of the Ontario Centre of Excellence for Child and Youth Mental Health.

The International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) provides up-to-date and
accurate information about hoarding and its treatment. The Center has five
goals:

• Educate the general public about hoarding.
• Facilitate education and training of human service personnel  including mental health, social services, public health and housing as  well as police and fire officials.
• Support research into the causes of and effective treatments for hoarding.
• Improve access to resources for those with hoarding disorder and their families, as well as clinicians and service personnel.
• Advocate and lobby for public policy change as it affects people  who hoard, their families and community members.

Hoarding Fact Sheet from the IOCDF

My Mother’s Garden My Mother’s Garden explores one woman’s extreme attachment to material objects and her emotional struggle to let go of them. The film documents a family’s journey as Cynthia Lester and her three brothers come together to help their mother, Eugenia Lester, with her acute case of Compulsive Hoarding Disorder, a disorder that
affects over one million people in this country alone. When her disorder reaches a crisis point the family is forced to intervene and clean the house, despite her resistance. The film documents this process, as well as its painful, but
ultimately healing aftermath.

The Mayo Clinic

Find out about the symptoms of compulsive hoarding, its diagnosis and treatment from the medical experts at the Mayo Clinic.