Is It Normal to Hoard?
Hoarding shows us at our best, and worst
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9 min readOct 28, 2019
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…