SAN DIEGO — Residents of Sea Drift Way in Ocean View Hills are expressing relief after San Diego Police finally intervened in a months-long hoarding situation that had been causing distress in the ...

Alex Broches, the man behind The Junk Removal Dudes, says the spike in hoarding cases is shocking.

Hoarding didn’t originate with humans. Long before our population began stockpiling an almost unimaginable array of items, animals evolved similar behaviors, though possibly for different reasons.

Individuals who experience hoarding related to OCD may have distressing feelings about discarding items. It can drive compulsive saving behaviors that they recognize as excessive. Obsessive-compulsive ...

Amanda Uhle’s recent book Destroy This House (Summit Books, 2025) opens with an unsettling image of her parents’ home: “The garage in their Pontiac home was filled with food, much of it perishable.