If you know Chinese, please help a Compulsive Hoarder

Hello, I hope your day is going well.

My father has been a compulsive hoarding since I was born. Currently, there are four members in my family and we live in a three bedroom apartment. However, one of the bedrooms is completely filled with boxes of items, the living room has no space to walk, and the other two bedrooms can barely fit more than a bed.

I am at my wit's end and feel like crying right now. My father only understands Chinese, so I was hoping to find some Chinese articles that talk about hoarding. At this point, he does not know that compulsive hoarding is a mental illness. I am planning to show him the Wikipedia article about compulsive hoarding located at http://zh.wikipedia....%A9%8D%E7%97%85 (the English page is at http://en.wikipedia....ulsive_hoarding).

I would like more articles though, especially those that talk about why people hoard (for my father, I think it is because he lost most of his family in a war, and he was also poor as a child and didn't have any toys or many items), how hoarding affects family members (my mother and I stress out about it most of the time, and we don't even have space to store our clothing), and how to overcome hoarding.

Please help if you know Chinese. I have a BA in psychology, but do not know how to read Chinese well enough to find articles.

Thank you,
Vic

"I would like more articles though, especially those that talk about why people hoard "

Vic, the very best source I know of for accurate information about compulsive hoarding (hoarding disorder) is the Hoarding page of the International Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Foundation (IOCDF) found here: http://ocfoundation.org/hoarding/

There are many fine articles there that you can translate using Google.

Also, there is an excellent online support group for those in relationship with a hoarder:
http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/O-H-T/

I wish you and your entire family all the very best,

--Paula

Thank you very much, Paula.

The links you provided are very helpful, but translation tools are not always accurate and I was hoping for articles that were written in Chinese. I will definitely be using the links you gave me though. Thank you.