Hoarding is a compulsion and thousands of people suffer from this disorder. Different psychological reasons are responsible for the tendency of hoarding. The first psychological reason is extreme perfectionism. People who want to do everything with perfection suffer from the fear of making mistakes; such fear can force people not to throw anything away. They think or feel that they might do it wrong and throw the wrong thing out. They fill their house with useless things. Hoarding can be dangerous for the inhabitants of a house. An average of 15 million people in the US suffers from hoarding compulsion. They make their homes so congested that their own family members cannot come to visit them even if they wish.
