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“Some people collect out of a desire for an aesthetic, others for prestige, and still others for a sense of mastery. But most theories of collecting elaborate on attempts to define, protect, or enhance the self.”

Self Collections Collecting

Book:Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

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“This has led some scholars to suggest that collecting is a way of managing fears about death by creating a form of immortality. This is consistent with a popular theory in social psychology called the terror management theory (TMT). TMT grows out of an existential predicament--that people, like animals, are mortal. But unlike animals, we are aware of our own mortality. Knowledge of the inevitability of death and its unpredictability can produce paralyzing fear. To cope with this potential terror, cultures provide beliefs, rituals, and sanctioned strategies for managing it. One of these strategies is the belief that some part of ourselves can live on after we die. Producing or amassing something of value is one way to accomplish this. Thus a collection offers the potential for immortality.”

Collections Collecting

Book:Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

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“The more space they, hoarders, have available, the more space they fill. Perhaps this is actually the goal--to fill space.”

Book:Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

Source: Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

“But when she was a home, her unworthiness was more apparent to her, mostly with she focused on the clutter. When she focused on individual items, however, her possessions seemed more comforting than threatening. The irony that her hoard could be comforting and tormenting at the same time was clear to her.”

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Book:Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

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“The hoarder self-medicated with things the way other trauma survivors self medicate with drugs or alcohol--”

Trauma Self Medication

Book:Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things

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