Why A Hoarding Cleaning Service May Be Necessary
Hoarding provides mental, emotional, and physical health risks to the hoarder and his family and may also cause structural damage to his residence, which is why employing a hoarding cleaning service is so important. Hoarding leads to an increased risk of fire, structural damage, diseases, injury, and infestation.
The accumulation of combustible items such as newspapers, documents, clothing, and trash, may constitute a severe fire hazard. The amount of flammable materials can create an extremely hot, rapid-moving fire that is difficult to extinguish. Furthermore, fleeing the home may be exceedingly difficult, if not impossible, due to blocked hallways, doorways, and windows. And, firemen and firewomen may have difficult accessing the interior of the house.
The increased weight and volume of hoarded belongings, which are often stacked from the floor to the ceiling, may cause structural damage that threatens the house occupants as well as residents of adjacent buildings. Unless it is done by a professional hoarding cleaning or junk removal service, cleaning the house of a hoarder is a nearly insurmountable task. The mess in which hoarders and their families live may lead to unsanitary living conditions and an increased risk of disease.
A dearth of home maintenance may also result in the loss of heat, running water, or even refrigeration. Toilets and sinks may become unreachable or unusable. Hoarding also increases the risk of injury for inhabitants; stacked materials may topple onto someone, or may make someone trip and fall. Garbage buildup may cause rodent and insect infestation.
Hoarders keep an extreme, disproportionate collection of items such as newspapers, magazines, empty containers, old clothing, trash, food, and sometimes animals. Caught in the throes of the mental illness, hoarders generally feel emotional attachment to hoarded entities and do not see flaws in their behaviors. Thus, having a junk removal service clean out their homes is a very threatening and stressful experience.
Individuals looking to hire a professional junk removal service need to select one that trains its staff in the appropriate, compassionate way to work with hoarders. Employees need to understand that hoarders see their trash as treasures and therefore find the cleanup process to be traumatizing.
Signs of hoarding include cluttered living spaces, the inability to discard items, kept stacks of newspapers, magazines, or junk mail and items moved from one pile to another without anything being thrown out. Symptoms also include the acquisition of unnecessary or apparently useless items, procrastination and difficulty managing daily activities, trouble making decisions, difficulty organizing materials, shame or embarrassment, little or no social interaction, and excessive attachment to possessions.
Although technically unclassified, hoarding is considered to an anxiety spectrum disorder. Hoarding may be a symptom of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD) but many hoarders do not display other OCD symptoms.
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