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Study on Family of Hoarders

I just googled to see if there is any research on the effects of hoarders on their families, and came across this:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3018822/ 

It’s quite interesting, but I found the section on “patient rejection” frustrating. Hoarding is a form of neglect, yes it’s a mental health issue, but it’s also clearly harmful to the children of hoarders (and their mental health), as the rest of the data they collected shows. 

“Perhaps the most striking finding from the present results is the high degree of patient rejection attitudes among family members. Scores on the PRS substantially exceeded those obtained from family members of OCD patients (Amir et al., 2000), and equaled or exceeded those from family members of patients with schizophrenia (Bailer et al., 1994; Heresco-Levy et al., 1992; Kreisman et al., 1979). Patient rejection was associated with severity of hoarding, the perceived level of insight displayed by the hoarding family member, and severity of clutter in the home during early childhood: individuals with more severe hoarding behaviors, those perceived as having less insight, and whose homes were severely cluttered during the family informant’s early childhood, are subject to more negative attitudes from family. Expressed emotion, defined as critical, hostile, or emotionally overinvolved patterns of interaction between family members and the patient, appear to predict poor initial response to OCD treatment, or relapse following successful treatment (Chambless & Steketee, 1999; Leonard et al., 1993). Clinicians working with compulsive hoarding may find it advantageous to work with the family by providing education about the harmful effects of such negative attitudes (e.g., by using cognitive strategies to reframe the patient’s behavior as manifestations of an illness rather than as a personality flaw or malicious behavior) and improving coping strategies among family members (Van Noppen & Steketee, 2003).“

Essentially, the more severe hoarding you live with, the more you “reject” your family member, and the severity of clutter in the home during early childhood links with more negative attitudes.. So clinicians working with hoarders might find it helpful to get family involved! 

It’s a lot to ask from people, and completely ignores the years of suffering they have experienced. My family who still live with my mother aren't "hostile", but they are beaten down, hopeless and negative. To request those people to have “positive attitudes” is ridiculous.

There’s no psychological “coping mechanism” that is going to solve the problem for a child who is trapped in a hoarder’s house. 

I hope that there will be more research on the effects of hoarding on families in the future. 

I think the issue is far more complex and needs further research. People need to have more compassion for children being brought up in these circumstances and realise that it contributes negatively to their mental health also.

Personally, the issue with growing up with a hoarder parent was not just living with the physical clutter but having to “keep the secret” and living in fear that someone would find out (my parents told me child protective services would find out and drag me away if anyone found out, and that I’d be put in a terrible foster system so my life would get even worse).

Then there’s also the blame. It’s common for the hoarder to blame other people, and a recurring topic in groups for children of hoarders is that they were told they were the “messy” one growing up. 

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