Skopidom: what does it mean and how to treat?

The obsession with storing various things for the purpose of stockpiling refers to mental obsessive-compulsive disorder. To cure the patient, it is necessary to understand the causes of the appearance of the scramma.

Unlike a thrifty person who has a sense of self-preservation because of forced lack of money, Scrapid stores old, sometimes completely unsuitable things. The meanie reluctantly part with obsolete items. They litter their apartment. Greedy prefers to go to the old.

For the sake of saving a few kopecks, the misers are ready to go to the other end of the city in order to purchase almost expired products. Accustomed to save on any little things, they will save every penny, while skididomes can have solid cash deposits in the bank.

Some may complain of chronic lack of money, although in fact they have no financial problems. Most often, over time, people who are prone to hoarding, the character does not change for the better: perseverance turns into stubbornness, caution - into suspiciousness, thrift - into stinginess.

The following reasons may contribute to the development of community:

• unfavorable heredity, predisposition to anxiety or obsessive-compulsive disorder is sometimes manifested in the descendants in the form of abnormal hoarding;
• traumatic brain injury or transferred encephalitis can damage the neurons responsible for making decisions;
• the traumatic situation associated with the departure from the life of a loved one, close relative, a serious illness of the second half, or his own illness;
• a difficult financial situation in the past develops the habit of some people to count every penny;
• the usual habit of saving money "for a rainy day";
• the total shortage of products and things in Soviet times could lay in the human subconscious fear of the disappearance of goods from the shelves of retail outlets overnight;
• senile dementia also often becomes the cause of excessive greed, anomalous tendency to pathological accumulation;
• personality traits of socially unadapted people and individuals prone to excessive thrift, thriftiness and stinginess; with the continuous cultivation of these character traits, such people may well join the ranks of scidombs;
• the perception of the property purchased and the unwillingness to part with it more, as it acquires special value in the eyes of the miser.

Miser do not always turn out to be beggars. Most often, these people have a good income, but money does not invest and does not sell. They prefer to hide them and keep the accumulated property at any cost. These actions become profiling in behavior. Subsequently, the following symptoms appear:

• irritability;
• quick temper;
• aggression;
• emotional imbalance.

The following clinical manifestations are characteristic of older people suffering from cancer due to senile dementia:

• untidiness, indifferent attitude to their appearance;
• distrustfulness, uncommunicativeness;
• social degradation;
• loss of realism of installations;
• apathy;
• lack of shame;
• mess in the living room.

Contact such patients go reluctantly.

A sign of pathological accumulation is the preservation of old things that are unlikely to be useful in the future, as well as their dumping into a common pile without parsing and sorting. A person suffering from delusions of frugality, usually spares money for food. He does not shun expired products covered with mold. Skopidom does not like to go to doctors and skimps on the purchase of drugs.

Skopidomstvo - a serious mental disorder requiring the intervention of a qualified professional. The treatment is often hampered by the misunderstanding of his problem by the man himself, suffering from delusions of frugality. In difficult cases, care is provided in stationary conditions. With outpatient treatment, the psychotherapist may apply cognitive behavioral therapy.

It may be antidepressants, neuroleptics, vascular drugs. Drugs are used strictly by appointment of a specialist and under his supervision. Short courses of taking medications improve general well-being, but they do not completely cure phobias.

After pharmacological treatment, patients acquire peace of mind. They become able to make contact. Then you should find an individual approach to them and try to agree.

If relatives or acquaintances suffer from hoarding syndrome, the following actions should be taken.

• It is necessary to convince the miser that that old objects tend to accumulate in themselves a lot of dust and decay. Things may contain too many bacteria and parasites that are dangerous to human health.
• You need to persuade the skidom to get rid of old magazines, old clothes and other garbage. You can refer to the beliefs of the Chinese that the junk contains a lot of negative energy, which prevents the penetration of positive energy flows into the house. In addition, if the thing is not used for three years, then it is not needed.
• When an unsuccessful attempt to reason with the patient you need to slowly throw things away, but in such a way that the mean doesn’t notice them decrease, otherwise they will be replaced at an incredible speed.
• Should be reassured to the greedy person that there’s no point in total savings. You need to update your stuff more often, periodically please yourself with gifts. From this, he certainly does not get poor, but a feeling of joy and satisfaction will experience one hundred percent.
• Excessive stinginess often ends in failure. It is necessary to inspire a sick person that a jumble of things carries a greater danger to human life in the event of a fire. Owing to the blocked approach to housing, the fire service and ambulance service will not be able to get into a house or apartment and save people, as well as their pets.

The help of the miser is to return a person from the past life and immerse him in the present - awareness of the value of his own being and the search for his place in the real world.

About who such a skidom and why he is dangerous, see below.