The Link Between Hoarding and Loneliness

Today, we appear to be suffering from an epidemic of loneliness. Indeed, in an increasingly individualistic and competitive world, human connections are conspicuous by their absence and single-person households are on the increase. Although being alone isn’t necessarily synonymous with emotional loneliness, in reality, we’re social beings. It seems that this absence of meaningful ties leads some people to hoard objects to fill that void. As a matter of fact, this is a trend in which most of us are immersed. We’ve become increasingly consumerist and the Internet and new technologies facilitate our acquisition of goods from the comfort of…