Both OCD and hoarding involve uncontrollable obsessive thoughts or urges: Obsessions are undesirable and bothersome ideas, images, or desires that OCD sufferers attempt to suppress by engaging in repetitive actions or thoughts (compulsions). Due to a perceived need to keep items or a fear of losing them, people with hoarding disorder have a difficult time parting with them, regardless of their actual value. Continue reading How OCD Can Fuel Hoarding? 3 Ways to Overcome it