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HOARDING SPENT A CENTURY FILED UNDER THE WRONG DISORDER
FOR MOST OF HISTORY HOARDING HAD NO HOME IN MEDICINE
DOCTORS KNEW THE BEHAVIOR WAS REAL
THEY JUST DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO CALL IT
SO THEY FILED IT UNDER SOMETHING ELSE
FOR DECADES THAT SOMETHING ELSE WAS OCD
THE LABEL NEVER QUITE FIT THE PEOPLE IT DESCRIBED
HERE IS HOW THAT FINALLY CHANGED
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OKAY BACK FROM THE FILING CABINET 🗂️
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FOR YEARS HOARDING WAS TREATED AS A SYMPTOM NOT A DISORDER
IT WAS TUCKED INSIDE OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER
ON PAPER HOARDING AND OCD LOOKED LIKE COUSINS
BOTH SEEMED TO INVOLVE UNWANTED THOUGHTS AND REPEATED BEHAVIOR
SO THE TEXTBOOKS GROUPED THEM TOGETHER
THE TROUBLE WAS THAT TREATMENTS FOR OCD RARELY HELPED
THE PEOPLE WHO HOARDED DID NOT MATCH THE PEOPLE WHO HAD OCD
SOMETHING ABOUT THE CATEGORY WAS SIMPLY WRONG
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THE RESEARCH THAT BROKE IT OPEN 🔬
A GROUP OF RESEARCHERS SET OUT TO TEST THE ASSUMPTION
RANDY FROST AND GAIL STEKETEE HAD STUDIED HOARDING FOR YEARS
DAVID TOLIN BROUGHT IT INTO THE BRAIN SCANNER
ONE FINDING STOOD OUT ABOVE THE REST
ONLY ABOUT 18 PERCENT OF HOARDING PATIENTS ACTUALLY MET THE CRITERIA FOR OCD
THE BRAIN SCANS TOLD THE SAME STORY
HOARDING LIT UP DIFFERENT REGIONS THAN OCD DID
THE GENETICS POINTED IN A DIFFERENT DIRECTION TOO
EVEN THE RESPONSE TO TREATMENT LOOKED NOTHING ALIKE
EVERY LINE OF EVIDENCE SAID THE SAME THING
HOARDING WAS ITS OWN CONDITION
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A DIAGNOSIS OF ITS OWN 📖
IN 2013 THE NEW EDITION OF THE DSM ARRIVED
THAT MANUAL IS THE BOOK THAT DEFINES EVERY MENTAL HEALTH DIAGNOSIS
FOR THE FIRST TIME HOARDING DISORDER WAS LISTED ON ITS OWN
IT WAS PULLED OUT FROM UNDER OCD ENTIRELY
IT WAS GIVEN ITS OWN NAME AND ITS OWN CRITERIA
THAT CHANGE WAS FAR MORE THAN PAPERWORK
A REAL DIAGNOSIS MEANS RESEARCH FUNDING AND REAL TREATMENT
IT MEANS INSURANCE CAN RECOGNIZE IT
IT MEANS THE PEOPLE LIVING IT ARE FINALLY SEEN
A CENTURY OF MISLABELING CAME TO AN END
