I collect bags (sacs) because I am worried I might need one and be out of them. I can't throw them away. Sacs are so symbolic, I am horrified when someone throws an empty bag out and I sometimes rescue them to avoid the anxiety.
I have had a small insight recently about hoarding (over half of the people who complete the questionnaire give the strongest response to the statement:
"At least one room in my home (including a shed or garage) is completely full of stuff."
I have been observing an extreme hoarder for five years now. He goes out every day, puts things into bags or boxes, carries them home and NEVER looks at them again. His whole house is full of bags and boxes of stuff. It's the containers that matter, not the stuff inside.
Now I am beginning to find a slight connection with identical twinning, but it's not that clear and I have been mystified as I think: if hoarding is to do with being a womb twin survivor, then what if the bags are the amniotic sacs? What if the identical twin developed in a separate sac? That happens in about a third of twin pregnancies that make it to birth, but we don't know how many lost twins are created in that configuration. If this is the hoarding scenario and if this is how you were in the womb, then we truly do have a bag that was once half of you - you would be bonded for life to that bag!
Is this the hoarding scenario?
I am working with someone who is learning how to teach others to overcome hoarding. If we can find the true reason why people do this, then we can help them to heal. That would be wonderful! So if you are a hoarder, please make contact, as we need all the stories we can get!
