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The Mental Illness That Makes People Throw Away Their Possessions
As long as she can remember, Annabelle Charbit has loathed “stuff.” She hated birthdays because birthdays meant gifts. And gifts meant finding a way to toss them. At 5 years old, Charbit would sneak toys into her younger brother’s room. By age 10, she was stashing her belongings in alleys around her London neighborhood. At 13, she discovered charity stores, smuggling bags past her parents and out the door.
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I'm glad that I don't reside on either end of that spectrum. I'm happily somewhere in the middle.