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StudioTulsa Medical Monday: A Discussion with Matt Paxton of TV's "Hoarders"

Aired on Monday, September 26th.

Do you happen to know, among your circle of friends and relatives and colleagues, a "pack rat" or two -- i.e., people who just can't seem to throw things away? On this edition of StudioTulsa Medical Monday, we offer a discussion of compulsive hoarding, which is an anxiety disorder affecting a great many Americans that makes it quite difficult for someone to discard with possessions, regardless of the actual value of those possessions. Our guest is Matt Paxton, host of the popular A&E television show called "Hoarders," who recently appeared in our city to give a free lecture on hoarding at the OU-Tulsa campus. As Paxton tells us today, most people who are hoarders have come to their affliction by way of grief or loss of some kind. And although it's quite common in our society, hoarding only became an actual listing in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders -- which is, more or less, the unofficial dictionary of the American Psychiatric Association -- a couple of years ago.

Rich Fisher passed through KWGS about thirty years ago, and just never left. Today, he is the general manager of Public Radio Tulsa, and the host of KWGS’s public affairs program, StudioTulsa, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary in August 2012 . As host of StudioTulsa, Rich has conducted roughly four thousand long-form interviews with local, national, and international figures in the arts, humanities, sciences, and government. Very few interviews have gone smoothly. Despite this, he has been honored for his work by several organizations including the Governor's Arts Award for Media by the State Arts Council, a Harwelden Award from the Arts & Humanities Council of Tulsa, and was named one of the “99 Great Things About Oklahoma” in 2000 by Oklahoma Today magazine.
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