Diogenes syndrome

For a while he lives alone in the attic, turning increasingly bitter, with an apparent Diogenes syndrome.

After this she became increasingly reclusive and appeared to have begun suffering from Diogenes syndrome.

The condition was first recognized in 1966 and designated Diogenes syndrome by Clark et al.

Diogenes Syndrome tends to occur among the elderly.

Diogenes syndrome was acknowledged more prominently as a media phenomenon in popular media rather than medical literature.

Extreme self-neglect can be known as Diogenes syndrome.

Diogenes syndrome is a behavioral disorder.

Diogenes syndrome is known as a disorder common in elderly people that involve hoarding of rubbish and severe self-neglect.

Individuals suffering from Diogenes syndrome generally display signs of collectionism, hoarding, or compulsive disorder.

Diogenes Syndrome is named after the behavior (but not necessarily the ideals) of Diogenes of Sinope.

Diogenes syndrome, also known as senile squalor syndrome, is a disorder characterized by extreme self-neglect, domestic squalor, social withdrawal, apathy, compulsive hoarding of garbage, and lack of shame.

Sometimes the terms "Plyushkin symptom" or "Plyushkin syndrome" are used to describe such people (Cybulska E."Senile Squalor: Plyushkin's not Diogenes Syndrome".

The patients are generally highly intelligent, and the personality traits that can be seen frequently in patients diagnosed with Diogenes syndrome are aggressiveness, stubbornness, suspicion of others, unpredictable mood swings, emotional instability and deformed perception of reality.