How come hoarding is considered a mental illness but minimalism isn’t?
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As a first pass for estimating how much these things make people’s lives worse, I think hoarding kills a lot more people?
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It’s not considered a mental illness, but it’s a common symptom among a cluster of other symptoms.
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I thought disease was largely defined by interference with life, friends, work, etc.
Minimalism doesn’t usually cause this, but it could— and then it would be considered a dysfunction.
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