JBKW / Overcreativity

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• In Debate, Truth Is Born ? I'm Not So Sure.. Plenty Of Pointless Waste Of Time, If You Ask Me.. Just Do Your Thing And Save Time And Energy!
• The fMRI Experiment: The Hard Science Purported To Demonstrate "Hoarding Brain" - A Closer Look - Does It Show What Is Claimed, Or What Does It Show ?
• Relationship Impact on Dysfunction In Possessions: Major Variable Unscientifically Ignored By "Experts" On "Hoarding" ; Instead, They Muse Simple-Mindedly Whether "Hoarders" Prefer To Be Alone, Or If They Sabotage The Relationships ; It May Not Be As Simple As That
• Awkward Item Management ( AIM ) / DeAwkwardization ( Method/Rule/Guideline )
• Challenge Accepted: A "Hoarding" Consultant Told Me I Would Never Succeed ( Without External "Help" )
• Frustrated Family Member ( FFM ) - Not Just Another Person Who Wants Improvement
• Materially Creative Persons - Artists, Tinkerers - Might Need Creative And Sprawling Possessions
• Collyer Brothers, Revisited - were they actually demonstrated to match the definition of "hoarding" ?
• Morbid Fascinated Sensationalized Disgust and Contempt ( MFSDC ): Narrative Style Common In Books By "Experts" On "Hoarding"
• Rant - True or False "Hoarding" ? An Information Problem ? ( A Somewhat Outdated Reasoning Of Mine That Shows What Led To This, And Works As A Case Example )
• What Is the Sticking Point here ? ( WISP ) - And How Can We Get This Moving ( Method/Guideline )
• Cure Worse Than The "Disease": How "Experts" On "Hoarding" And Concerned Family Members Made The Problem Worse
• Emotionally Volatile Person ( EVP ) - anyone prone to get easily upset emotionally, and to generate emotional outbursts / disturbances of some kind.
• Hypothesis - what if, in many / most / all cases, including examples in the book ( which appears to check out so far ) of what is labeled "Hoarding Disorder", is not a primary mental illness, but a predictable systemic failure caused by any combination of -
• Single Domain Expert Problem: Seeing Only Problems Within Their Domain As "Important" Or "The Most Important"
• Hostile Baseline: Impossible To Have A Constructive Dialogue With Someone Who Is Perma-Frustrated At You ( Such As An FFM )
• Freedom Hypothesis: Most If Not All Cases Of "Hoarding" or Dysfunction In Possessions Arise Out Of Being Unfree
• Thousand Box Method ( Organizing Method )
• Organizing By Piles Fallacy - Nobody Organizes By Piles If They Have Any Choice ( Experts Missed The Obvious )
• Legitimacy Assumption - Assuming The Person, Their Intentions And All Their Things Are Legitimate And Unquestionable ( Better Framing Than What The "Mental Illness" from "Hoarding" "Experts" )
• The Great Salad ( Of "Irrational" Behaviors, Problems etc. ) / Blind Men Describing An Elephant - But No Single Complete Example ( Of Presentation By "Experts" On "Hoarding" )
• TV Shows On "Hoarding" Are Utterly Toxic.. Except When They Are Fake
• Action Might Be A Real Remedy - Not Discarding - Testing, Doing, Using, Completing ( "Experts" On "Hoarding" Missed The Obvious )
• Bold Prediction: Current Concept Of "Hoarding" As We Know It Will Be History Soon, And "Experts" Will Be Discredited
• "Tough Love" is a Euphemism for Disrespect, Coercion and Abuse
• The "Regardless of Actual Value" Fallacy and Subterfuge + Presumptive Valuation + Playing Fast And Loose With Even The DSM-5
• Irene's bottle caps ( from Stuff ) - as a case study in author's bias
• "Hoarders" Will Fill All Available Space, According To "Expers" on "Hoarding": "Some" vs "Most" or "All" Confusion Fallacy ; Making Person Fit The Space, Or Making Space Fit The Person ?
• Dysfunction In Possessions ( DIP ) - A More Specific And Less Loaded Definition Than "Hoarding"
• CBT: Coercive Brainwashing Technique.. or Cognitive Behavior Therapy ?
• DSM-5 definition of "hoarding", generally, appears to be full of holes, fitting all kinds of unrelated situations, making the definition arbitrary and meaningless, certainly from medical standpoint - " can drive a truck through this definition " ( cf Pachydermata ).
• "Overcreativity" is a misnomer, and experts' condescending, disparaging references to it / excessive thinking and creativity are misguided..
• Non-Clutter Blindness: Mirror Image Of "Clutter Blindness", Or "It's All Garbage And Should Be Discarded"
• Tunnel Vision - experts on "hoarding" have demonstrated it big time
• Where Is The "Mental Illness" of "Hoarding" "Disorder" ? ( Lack of Knowledge, Resources, Favorable Conditions ? )
• Circular Supercedence Paralysis ( hypothetical ) - Prioritizing What Screams The Loudest, Or The Last ?
• Runaway Mental Processes ( RMPs ) - Taking An Activity A Bit ( Or A Lot ) Too Far
• Weasel Words of Manipulation - Loaded, Leading Language ( LLLying ) used throughout "experts'" discourse on "hoarding"
• What Would I/You Do If.. ? ( WWIDI- / WWYDI- ) ( Method/Guideline ) - a class of thought exercises:
• Introjection Attack: Voices In Your Yead ( No, Not The Crazy Kind ), And They Aren't Even Yours - Brainwashing Can't Be Good For You
• Different, not Disordered ? Hypothesis - Keeper as a distinct cognitive subtype / mindset / mentality
• Intermittent High-Stakes Signal Source ( IHSSS ): Any entity with leverage over the person in question, liable to produce random requests which must have attention paid to them, and ignoring which is liable to have varying degrees of undesirable consequences
• Locomotive Personality: When One Of The Spouses Always Pulls And Pushes
• "Experts" Are Clueless About How Electricity Works - Waging War On Power Bars And Extension Cords ( Offering Irrelevant Concerns And Impractical Solutions )
• Hurrying aka Rushing is the root of much evil - results in undesirable shortcuts , backlogs , processing debt
• "Experts" on "Hoarding" are like a Driving Instructor who not only doesn't drive, but has a deep phobia of driving and of cars
• Abolish the terms "Hoarding", "Hoarder".. Or Not ?
• Functional Stupidity: Do Everything Right, Obey The Rules ( As You Know Them ) Perfectly, Get A Stupid Result
• “Why Can’t You Do X?” - This Is Not a Question, It’s More Toxic Than It Seems, And It Usually Carries More Loaded Meaning As The Payload
• Systems Approach / Systems, Not Symptoms.
• Information aka Digital Hoarding is a joke - whoever seriously talks of that, shows only their own computer illiteracy
• Experts Projecting Their Own Views And Issues Onto "Hoarders"
• Always Have Surplus ( of resources ) - for proper functioning, organizing etc.
• Choices - Let The Person Decide - Instead Of Influencing Them
• Hard Residuals - "Hoarding" "Experts" Contesting Every Decision To Keep Made By A Person
• Why Would The Exact Same Possessions, Behavior And Rationale Be Intentional And Perfectly Functional In One Person ( e.g. Me ) but Pathology In Another ?
• Creativity According To "Hoarding" "Experts": Hypocricy or Context Dependence ? Only For Licensed Artists ? BIT "Overcreativity"
• Churning - Not What It Seems / Not What The "Experts" Claim - And How To Do Better
• Nagging - A Closer Look: What Is it ? Not Just A Repeated Request - And It's Much Worse Than Most People Realize
• How I Would Organize My Things - Sort First, Purge-Maybe-Later, Thousand Box Method
• Paradox: Moving Stuff Out, Volume Reduced, But Clutter Worsens ( What Happens In A Holistic Move-Out, Reorganizing, Storage Allocation )
• WAYTA Blockage - "What Are You Talking About ?" - summary dismissal of all reasoning from a person labelled a "Hoarder" = incompetent / mentally ill, by family members and therapists alike
• Walking Around "Pointlessly", Looking, Picking, Churning ( Whether Successful Or Not ) - This May Be More Reasonable Than A Casual Observer Thinks - Mapping, Processing, Organizing + Friction / Process Failure / Lack Of Systems, Space, Imperatives = Memory / "Stack" Overflow, Blockages ; There Are Ways To Do Better
• Possessions Helping Possessions ( PHP ) - Got boxes, bags, trays, jars ? - Use them ! ( Organizing Method/Guideline )
• Finite Mental Resource Theory ( FMRT ): A hypothesis that executive function available to a given person in a given day is a depletable resource
• Chronic Resource Shortage ( Time, Money, Attention, Energy ): Inevitable Disaster, Destuction Of Everything By Neglect, Dilapidation ; Dysfunction In Possessions Is But One Of The Manifestations Of This ( And "Experts" On "Hoarding" Are Blind To This Scenario )
• Important vs Unimportant Organizing Fallacy: "Experts" On "Hoarding" Keep Mentioning It, But Who Does It This Way ?
• I Disobeyed Advice from Experts on Hoarding & Here's What Happened
• Compulsive Diagnosing: when too much diagnosing is too much
• Compulsive Normalizing: pseudo-diagnosis for the vocal minority who insists that everyone should be "normal", people who like to impose their aesthetic preferneces on others
• Mockery By "Experts" Starts In Titles And Intros: "Cherished" Possessions, "Treasures".. What Exactly Are You Implying ?
• Resensitization: Creating Problems Out Of Nothing When There Aren't Enough Real Problems
• Scientific Blunder of Epic Proportions, or The Core Methodological Errors by "Experts" on "Hoarding"
• Nagging and Yelling: It Is Abuse - And "Hoarding" "Experts" Tacitly Approve Of It ; It Is Much Worse Than It Seems
• Stop And Think - The One Thing "Experts", Practitioners and Frustrated Family Members Don't Want You To Do ( Fabricated Urgency Is The Hallmark of Scammers )
• Get The Stuff Off The Floor ( GTS-[TF]-OTF ) ( Rule/Guideline )
• Minimalism - My Take On It - The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
• "Experts" encourage people to "trust their memory" when putting items out of sight in their proposed organizing system - but this is doomed to fail, both memory and their proposed system
• Experts Offer Only One Button, One Solution - Discarding - And They Are Pushing It As Hard As They Can ( When All You Have Is A Hammer...)
• Room For Maneuvering ( RFM ): Absolutely Essential ; When Allocating Space, Plan For Significantly More, Not "Barely Enough"
• Missing Experiment: Remove All Pressure And Bad Advice, See How The Person Fares
• Term replacement - Keeper / Keeping - instead of "Hoarding" -
• Abundant, Insufficiently Organized Possessions - How's That For Better Framing - Instead of "Hoarding" or even Dysfunction In Possesssion ?
• Gatling Gun of Grievances ( GGG ) ( Stream of Accusations - Beware Of This Bad-Faith Communication Style Coming From Frustrated Family Members and Pushier "Hoarding" Therapists )
• Carrot and Stick - But Carrot Might Not Be Real, or Relationship Magically Healing After Discarding May Be A Delusion
• Zero Surplus Theory ( Time , Money ) - Are You A Time Bankrupt ? - Barely Enough Is Not Enough
• Extreme Lifestyles as a category - Keeping / "Hoarding" suggested to be one of them
• Pachydermata ? Or - What do thick-skinned animals and different manifestations of Dysfunction in Possessions have in common ? "Hoarding" as an umbrella "disorder" covering unrelated scenarios
• Tree With Too Many Branches ( Frost's mocking of "excessive" cognition )
• Fascinating Reading Doesn't Equal Useful, Healthy Or Scientifically Valid: Books On Stock Trading vs Books By "Experts" On Hoarding
• The Core Triad of Talking Points ( Emotional Attachment, Difficulty Discarding, Difficulty Making Decisions ) can all be reasonably suspected of being "something else" in most or all cases
• You Don't Owe Anyone An Explanation Why You Keep Any Given Thing ( Not Even To Yourself )
• Magician's Trick / Gambit ( of the mainstream authors / experts, in whose discource this is prevalent )
• Decisiveness, Decision-Making Is A Skill, Not A Static Trait Or A Symptom As "Experts" On "Hoarding" Imply - Can Be Learned, Improved
• Gripe and Blame Snowball / Anger Avalanche / Runaway Train ( conflict pattern / dynamic , RDP ):
• Experts Who ? What Is The "Expertise" Of The "Experts" ( So.. "Expert".. What Do You Do Around Here ? -- Bob and Bob ) / What Did These Coryphaei of "Hoarding" Accomplish ? / Do We Have A Problem With Fake Teachers ? ( nod to RK )
• Overwhelm: I've Seen It.. And I Understood It! It's A Paper Dragon - Not All It's Cranked Up To Be By "Experts" On "Hoarding" - Just A Big Project, Not A Sign Of Mental Illness - And You Can Probably Defeat It.. With Boxes, Yellow Sticky Notes And Marker, And Discarding Is By No Means Required Nor Recommended
• Questioning The 15-Minute Time Limit For "Decluttering" Recommended By "Experts" On "Hoarding": If You Need That, Chances Are You Are Doing Something Unnatural
• I What Nobody Else Seriously Did ( Especially Among Experts, Who Should Have Done It ) - I Looked, I Paid Attention, I Thought, I Asked questions