That Hoarder: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding
191 episodes - English - Latest episode: 2 days ago - ★★★★★ - 64 ratingsHoarding disorder is stigmatised and people who hoard feel vast amounts of shame. This podcast began life as an audio diary, an anonymous outlet for somebody with this weird condition. That Hoarder speaks about her experiences living with compulsive hoarding, she interviews therapists, academics, researchers, children of hoarders, professional organisers and influencers, and she shares insight and tips for others with the problem. Listened to by people who hoard as well as those who love them and those who work with them, Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder aims to shatter the stigma, share the truth and speak openly and honestly to improve lives.
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Episodes
Different types of therapy for hoarding disorder with Dr Jan Eppingstall
March 18, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 37.8 MBMost hoarders need some degree of professional help if they're going to get through this problem. But the number of therapies available is overwhelming and bewildering. So today, we're going to talk about some of the types of therapy on offer for hoarding disorder. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding wi...
How to stop getting distracted when dehoarding your home
March 11, 2022 13:00 - 27 minutes - 14.7 MBIf you can work out exactly what's tripping you up, exactly what is making you need to get distracted, that's immensely helpful. Because if you can address those worries in yourself, you may find that you're just more capable of staying on the task at hand when you don't have whatever fear or worry it is hanging around For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding w...
How to stop getting distracted
March 11, 2022 13:00 - 31 minutes - 22 MBIf you can work out exactly what's tripping you up, exactly what is making you need to get distracted, that's immensely helpful. Because if you can address those worries in yourself, you may find that you're just more capable of staying on the task at hand when you don't have whatever fear or worry it is hanging around For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding wi...
You can't save everything
March 04, 2022 11:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBYour home does not exist to hold on to the ghosts of everybody you've ever met, or every dream you've ever had, or every purchase you ever made. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Reddit: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project Support the show ...
You can't save everything
March 04, 2022 11:00 - 17 minutes - 11.9 MBYour home does not exist to hold on to the ghosts of everybody you've ever met, or every dream you've ever had, or every purchase you ever made. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Reddit: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project Support the show
You can’t save everything
March 04, 2022 11:00 - 17 minutes - 9.36 MBYour home does not exist to hold on to the ghosts of everybody you've ever met, or every dream you've ever had, or every purchase you ever made. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Reddit: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project Support the show ...
Create new habits and make them stick
February 25, 2022 10:00 - 18 minutes - 10.6 MB"If we are to continuously dehoard and if, should we achieve a normal home, we want to maintain it, then we need to have habits rather than just one-off actions. And creating habits is something that I think about a lot. And I've tried lots of things, and some of them have worked, and a lot haven't." For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTu...
Perfectionism and hoarding with Dr Jan Eppingstall of Stuffology
February 18, 2022 14:00 - 57 minutes - 27.9 MB"I think that the differences in presentation and behaviour has to do with what is at the heart of perfectionism, which is fear of failure" For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Reddit: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project Support the show Host...
Avoid analysis paralysis by having ’systems’
February 11, 2022 10:00 - 8 minutes - 5.22 MB"The benefit of these systems or processes is it removes one barrier. And that barrier is having to make decisions, and making decisions is tiring and it's difficult and it ties me up in knots." For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Reddit: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder He...
Avoid analysis paralysis by having 'systems'
February 11, 2022 10:00 - 8 minutes - 6.1 MB"The benefit of these systems or processes is it removes one barrier. And that barrier is having to make decisions, and making decisions is tiring and it's difficult and it ties me up in knots." For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Reddit: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder He...
Make it easy for yourself by eliminating barriers
February 04, 2022 10:00 - 12 minutes - 7.76 MB"I thought, Gosh, this is easy. I wonder if this is how people who aren't hoarders just go about cleaning and tidying, they just see something that needs doing and do it" For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Reddit: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this pr...
Putting like with like
January 28, 2022 10:00 - 15 minutes - 8.47 MBYou will find that you say “okay, I might be anxious at the prospect of running out of carrier bags. But now I'm putting every carrier bag I find in the same place, I realise I'm seriously not going to run out of carrier bags for at least six years.” For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder R...
Trauma and hoarding: an interview with Dr Jan Eppingstall of Stuffology
January 21, 2022 10:00 - 1 hour - 34.1 MBThe important thing to remember about it, I tell my clients this, is it's not a defect. It's not something that is wrong with you. You are not lazy. You are not unable to change. It is a survival state that in your life experience was what you used in order to survive the environment, whatever it might be that has occurred in your life, and it's become the default. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoa...
You're looking but you don't see
January 14, 2022 10:00 - 11 minutes - 7.64 MBWe have to be honest, even if it's just with ourselves, that the way we're living is damaging us For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
You’re looking but you don’t see
January 14, 2022 10:00 - 11 minutes - 6.69 MBWe have to be honest, even if it's just with ourselves, that the way we're living is damaging us For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Shame is toxic
January 07, 2022 10:00 - 13 minutes - 7.76 MB" I have never been able to say to a mental health professional or to anybody. I am a hoarder, I need some help. Because of the shame." For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What if I need it? Defeating objections to dehoarding
December 31, 2021 10:00 - 12 minutes - 7.04 MB"I can't throw away these scissors. What if I need them? I can't throw away this notebook. What if I need it? I can't throw away this out-of-date food, what if I need it?" For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project Support the show Hosted on Acast. See ac...
The arguments AGAINST setting goals for your new year’s resolutions
December 24, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutes - 8.35 MBWho do you know who is still going to the gym today, or walking 10,000 steps a day today who vowed to do those on January 1st this year? Who do you know who went on a diet on January 1st this year, and is still on that same diet today? For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: S...
The arguments AGAINST setting goals for your new year's resolutions
December 24, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBWho do you know who is still going to the gym today, or walking 10,000 steps a day today who vowed to do those on January 1st this year? Who do you know who went on a diet on January 1st this year, and is still on that same diet today? For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out...
What to do with unwanted gifts
December 17, 2021 10:00 - 12 minutes - 7.3 MB"People don't give you gifts to burden you. And if keeping hold of something will burden you, then that's the opposite of the point of a gift. "It's not disrespectful to get something and to quietly think, “Somebody else could get better use out of this than me” and pass it on to that person. There's nothing wrong with that. " For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoa...
Giving gifts, getting gifts: hoarders at Christmastime
December 10, 2021 10:00 - 16 minutes - 9 MBA big issue for Christmas for hoarders is gifts: both giving and receiving gifts can be fraught. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Keeping things within reach
December 03, 2021 10:00 - 8 minutes - 5.26 MBSo I want to talk today about a revelation I had. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Being the child of a hoarder: an interview with Elizabeth Nelson
November 26, 2021 10:00 - 47 minutes - 23.6 MB"Even if I was the most skilled expert on compulsive hoarding, I probably wouldn't be the appropriate person to be intervening with my mother because of the intimacy and all the emotional baggage between us. So yeah, it's just really complicated." For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help...
Dealing with overwhelm
November 19, 2021 10:00 - 14 minutes - 8.06 MB"If you break it down, and you're still overwhelmed, break it down further. If you're still overwhelmed then, break it down further." For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Is digital clutter really that bad?
November 12, 2021 10:00 - 16 minutes - 9.24 MB"People say, ‘No, you shouldn't do these things. Because you're just transferring physical clutter into digital clutter. And it's just as disorganised and it takes up a different kind of space and your phone will run out of room and you'll regret it’" For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder YouTube: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder ...
Why do I keep buying stuff?
November 05, 2021 10:00 - 11 minutes - 6.95 MB"I don't know why I get such an urge to get stuff in the first place. I mean, is it just living under capitalism? Am I just a victim of every advert I see and every idea I have that I feel I need to turn into a possession of some kind?" For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project Support the show Hosted on Acast....
A weird motivation for hoarders: death?
October 29, 2021 09:00 - 7 minutes - 4.56 MBThis may sound like a weird reason to dehoard my home, but it's not as morbid as it sounds. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
"But throwing it away would be a waste of money": defeating objections to dehoarding
October 22, 2021 09:00 - 10 minutes - 7.03 MBWhat I want to focus on today is: ‘well I can't throw this away, because it would be a waste of money. I spent a lot of money on that pair of jeans, or that shelving unit, or that bedding and throwing it away now would waste that money’. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this projectSupport the show Hosted on Acast. See...
”But throwing it away would be a waste of money”: defeating objections to dehoarding
October 22, 2021 09:00 - 10 minutes - 6.79 MBWhat I want to focus on today is: ‘well I can't throw this away, because it would be a waste of money. I spent a lot of money on that pair of jeans, or that shelving unit, or that bedding and throwing it away now would waste that money’. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this projectSupport the show Hosted on Acast. See...
Does hoarding really have a 97% recidivism rate?
October 14, 2021 20:00 - 10 minutes - 6.14 MBI need to stop this statistic - that may or may not be made up - from being a barrier that stops me from making my home livable in. And so that is my goal for the time being, I need to get that number out of my head and stop using it as a reason to not make progress. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this projectSupport t...
Does hoarding really have a 97% recidivism rate?
October 14, 2021 20:00 - 10 minutes - 7.05 MBI need to stop this statistic - that may or may not be made up - from being a barrier that stops me from making my home livable in. And so that is my goal for the time being, I need to get that number out of my head and stop using it as a reason to not make progress. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project Support...
The gas man came
May 21, 2021 09:00 - 10 minutes - 6.3 MBAnd I was so scared. I was so scared because this person was going to come in and see how I live For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this projectSupport the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Panic, panic, panic
May 14, 2021 09:00 - 6 minutes - 3.92 MBI'm also full of panic about the absolute horror and shame I will feel when they are in here. My initial reaction to that the appointment was panic, panic, panic, and then I just froze. I was paralysed for days, I knew what needed to be done, I didn't know how to do it. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project ...
One of my worst nightmares just happened
May 07, 2021 09:00 - 6 minutes - 4.12 MBMy podcast planning has gone out of the window today, because I am in a panic. A full-on panic, my worst nightmare - one of my worst nightmares - is happening For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this projectSupport the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Resisting the lure of pretty boxes - or stop buying storage to store your junk
April 30, 2021 09:00 - 6 minutes - 4.04 MBIf you're listening, and you're struggling with hoarding and you haven't got rid of 75% of your stuff already, then listen to me: “Don't get the pretty basket, don't get the shelving unit, and don't get the pretty bags. Not just yet, anyway. Hold out, as it is just more clutter”. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this pro...
So do we just pick a room and start?
April 23, 2021 09:00 - 6 minutes - 3.77 MBThinking of compulsive hoarders, thinking of people whose homes are in quite a mess, then just saying, “I'm going to work on the bedroom” is just too big. It's too overwhelming. It's too difficult to do. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project. Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...
A moment of despair in the middle of the night
April 16, 2021 09:00 - 4 minutes - 3.25 MBI can't tell you how dejected I feel right now. Because sorting out a few boxes in one room is one thing. It's better than not sorting out a few boxes in one room. But that's one room of several. And that's a few boxes out of a gazillion boxes. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this project Support the show Hosted o...
Why hoarding TV shows are a disaster
April 09, 2021 09:00 - 6 minutes - 4.59 MBProgrammes about hoarders exist so that viewers can look into the home of somebody who's struggling and laugh at them. And that's not okay. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this projectSupport the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
My experience of having CBT for hoarding disorder
April 02, 2021 09:00 - 8 minutes - 4.97 MBI was sceptical because the initial CBT sessions had been relatively useless. But equally, I had no other options. There aren't exactly hoarding treatments readily available. So I agreed to be referred on for this more in-depth therapy. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support this projectSupport the show Hosted on Acast. See ...
How I Got Here | Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder
March 30, 2021 13:00 - 6 minutes - 4.89 MBSo I guess the place to start really is how I got to where I'm at now. Where I'm at now is that I live in a hoarded house, surrounded by crap that I have a lot of mental blocks around getting rid of. I'm sick of how I live. But fixing it is so overwhelming that I don't know what to do. For the full show notes and transcript for this episode, visit the website at Overcome Compulsive Hoarding. Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Help out: Support ...
The stigma that surrounds hoarding disorder | Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder
March 30, 2021 13:00 - 5 minutes - 4.12 MBSo, I hate the word hoarding. I hate the word hoarder. I resist saying them unless I absolutely have to. And this podcast and the website are kind of forcing me into getting used to those words, and I suspect that's a good thing. But they are difficult words. It's a very, very stigmatised thing. Website: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding Twitter: @ThatHoarder Facebook: Overcome Compulsive Hoarding with That Hoarder Support this project Support the show Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priva...