Hoarding – Buried in Treasures

Hoarding has gained recognition as a disorder recently with articles and shows on the subject and is now estimated to affect from 2% to 5% of the population, we talked with Dr. David Tolin an expert to educate us on this issue, its implications, its effect on the individual and their family and what can be done to help. Even if you are a hoarder, Dr. Tolin has suggestions that can help us all declutter our lives.

About Dr. David Tolin
Dr. Tolin is the founder and Director of the Anxiety Disorders Center at the Institute of Living. He is also Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. Dr. Tolin received his Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas, and completed a predoctoral internship at Tufts University School of Medicine/VA Medical Center, Boston.

Dr. Tolin’s research and clinical interests include cognitive-behavioral therapy for anxiety disorders in adults and children, and cognitive obsessive-compulsive disorder, posttraumatic stress disorder, and panic disorder. Dr. Tolin is the author of over 100 journal articles and book chapters, and over 180 research presentations to national and international organizations. He is co-author of the books Buried in Treasures: Help for Compulsive Acquiring, Saving, and Hoarding (with Drs. R. Frost and G. Steketee)

Dr. Tolin has been interviewed for The New York Times and the Associated Press, and has been a recurrent guest on The Today Show, Good Morning America (1, 2) and The Oprah Winfrey Show 2/6/11

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Reading, Research & Links

Collyer brothers

Anxiety Disorders Center/Center for Cognitive Behavioral Therapy:
Compulsive Hoarding
Why Do People Hoard? Oprah
12 Tips to Overcome Hoarding
Clutter Genetics

10/31/10 Anesthesia – What You Don’t Know – ADHD Stresses a Marriage

Understanding Anesthesia
Anesthesia is a mysterious concept to most of us, even if we’ve been anesthetized before. The term comes from the Greek for “loss of sensation,” but that’s not the only effect it causes in your body. Anesthesia, essentially a reversible condition induced by drugs, is intended to result in one or more different states of being. It can relieve pain, give you amnesia to knock out your memory of the procedure or how it felt, reduce anxiety (because who doesn’t have anxiety when undergoing a medical procedure?) and paralyze your muscles.

Attention Disorders Can Take a Toll on Marriage
Does your husband or wife constantly forget chores and lose track of the calendar? Do you sometimes feel that instead of living with a spouse, you’re raising another child? Your marriage may be suffering from attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.

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Can a Child’s Birthday Predict ADHD?

Today in this posting, I’ll be talking about 2 articles that consider the same topic: the relationship between a child’s birthday, and the incidence with which they are diagnosed and treated for ADHD [attention deficit hyperactivity disorder]. These 2 articles were published in September’s issue of the Journal of Health Economics.
The lead author on the first article is Evans, and the lead author on the other article is Elder. These authors examine the question of whether children who were relatively younger than their classmates were more likely to get a diagnosis of ADHD or receive medical treatment for this condition.
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Can a Child’s Birthday Predict ADHD?

6/27/10 Speech Pathology – Ellen Potter

Being able to speak is a given until you can’t. Speech is taken for granted. Many issues impede our ability to speak from genetics to disease. The role of speech pathology is discussed with Ellen Potter of Greenwich Hospital.

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