February 10, 2004

information that could change her life

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One woman, for example, found throwing out a newspaper so unbearable that her therapist instructed her never to buy one again.  Another could not pass a newsstand without thinking that one of the myriad periodicals on sale contained some bit of information that could change her life.

And a third, trying to explain why she had bought several puppets that she did not want or need from a television shopping channel, spoke of feeling sorry for the toys when no one else bid on them. 

Nina Bernstein, from her New York Times article,
So Much Clutter, So Little Room: Examining the Roots of Hoarding.

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