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Society today is greatly influenced by the media; in this day of lower rates of religion, citizens need a place in which to seek ideas of what is right and wrong. and wrong.For this reason, the media play a large role in the dissemination of the claims that suggest hoarding is a morally wrong behaviour. Hoarding as a morally regulated behaviour According to the elements described above, hoarding can be defined as a morally regulated behaviour. Several claimants and self-proclaimed experts work to build adiscourse of harm from the behaviour, and then impose regulation on the individual that is hoarding. This group includes trained professionals such as doctors or therapists, professional organizers and counsellors trained to deal with clutter and disorganization, neighbourhood watchdogs concerned for property values, and health and safety personnel such as rescue workers or paramedics. In dangerous situations adult and child protective services may also get involved. The behaviour termed ‘hoarding’ is the object or target of change; the group advocating for change focus on altering habits of accumulation and the inability to discard. The harm discourse involved in moral regulation means that the focus is often on hoarded houses that pose potential health and safety risks due to rotting food, vermin or insect infesta- 78
tion, poor air quality, or structural damage. However, smaller levels of disorganization and clutter may also be included as the discourse is expanded, thus broadening the target for intervention. Several forms of knowledge are utilized in producing a discourse due to the variety of claimants. As previously mentioned, medical claimants often advocate claims that hoarding is a mental illness that is beyond a hoarder’s control. Professional organizers support ideas that cleanliness and organization are better for the health and happiness of individuals. Neighbourhood watch participants may advocate cleanliness due to aesthetics and comparative housing values. Rescue personnel are often concerned with the health of the inhabitant but also with the safety of any first responders in case of an emergency. Overall these claims convey the idea that disorganization and lack of cleanliness are not morally acceptable. These claims are then transformed by a discourse of harm; anything that does not fit into a ‘normal’ category as proclaimed by the claimants is considered harmful. Harm creates a reason to interfere with the individual committing the behaviour, the intention being to improve their life and help them avoid harm. The practices to avoid harm from hoarding are then introduced to the person at risk. These approaches may include curbing habits such as increased spending or the inability to part with items,or learning how to create spaces for things brought into the house in the name of organization. The key ideologies of cleanliness and organization are disseminated to the hoarder so as to convey that excess items and unclean spaces are not acceptable and the behaviours that produce them are immoral. The claims eventually penetrate the hoarder and they begin to believe the moral ideologies to be true. This then allows for the possibility of a self-regulation wherein the hoarder imposes regulation on him or herself and thus changes their behaviour in the name of morality. 79
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A little about this PUBLICATION Thr
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CONTENTS 09 Introduction 15 What is
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THE SOCIAL CONSTRUCTION OF HOARDING
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professionals have approached the b
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eader that he/ she is going through
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WHAT IS HOARDING? Many people today
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larger accumulation of goods that m
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these approaches, however, frame th
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CONSUMER THEORY While investigating
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Karl Marx opens Capital Volume One
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keep everything. Animal hoarders ge
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considering whether to throw things
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All doors and stairways of the home
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Hoarding disorder can cause problem
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Diagnosing Hoarding Disorder: Speci
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