OCD Personality Disorder diagnosis cases

Michael Daniel Leidecker, 2004

“The most common model disorder in both object hoarders and animal hoarders is OCD Personality disorder model. The impulse to amass a large collection of some item or items simply for the sake of collecting it, can symptomatic of obsessive- compulsive personality disorder. People with this disorder appear to experience an overwhelming sense of responsibility for preventing imagined harm to animals and they engage in unrealistic steps to fulfill this responsibility In addition over 80% of animal hoarders also hoard inanimate objects, a symptom present in 20-30% of OCD”