Is It Normal to Hoard?

Hoarding shows us at our best, and worst

Nautilus
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Illustration of an old man’s head with random objects like boxes, shoes, and jars floating around it.
Illustration: Yuko Shimizu

By David Wallis

Originally published at Nautilus on February 20, 2014.

Animals like to hoard. Christopher E. Overtree, director of the Psychological Services Center at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a specialist in treating hoarding, says that “the mechanisms triggering this kind of…

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