I came across this article last weekend, in the Guardian, about a man, Gordon Stewart, who was a ‘hoarder’. It goes beyond the common definition of ‘hoarding’ though and becomes a major and almost life-threatening degree of hoarding and collection of everything from ‘bits and pieces’ to actively collecting rubbish from outside. That article, and a [...]

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