Psychiatry and Psychology

Hoarding Disorder

Disordered behavior associated with clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning and persistent difficulty parting with possessions due to a perceived need to save the items and distress associated with discarding them. (from DSM-V) The quantity of collected items sets the behavior apart from normal collecting behaviors.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Disordered behavior associated with clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning and persistent difficulty parting with possessions due to a perceived need to save the items and distress associated with discarding them. (from DSM-V) The quantity of collected items sets the behavior apart from normal collecting behaviors.

MeSH Record

Classification

Related Concepts

Knowledge Graph

Loading graph…

Drag nodes to rearrange; hover to trace links; click a node to open its page.

MeSH Record

Synonyms

4 entry terms
  • Disorders, Hoarding
  • Hoarding Disorders
  • Obsessive Hoarding
  • Hoarding, Obsessive

MeSH Record

Aspects Covered

31 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings blood, cerebrospinal fluid, chemically induced, classification, complications, diagnosis, diagnostic imaging, diet therapy, drug therapy, economics, enzymology, epidemiology, ethnology, etiology, genetics, history, immunology, metabolism, microbiology, mortality, nursing, parasitology, pathology, physiopathology, prevention & control, psychology, rehabilitation, surgery, therapy, urine, virology.

MeSH Record

Indexing Annotation

differentiate from HOARDING

MeSH Record

History Note

2016

MeSH Hierarchy

Tree Number

MeSH Record

NLM Classification

WM 176

AMA Style

References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Hoarding Disorder. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D000067836. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D000067836
  2. Hoarding Disorder. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoarding_disorder
  3. Hoarding Disorder. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q195941