The first step to recovering from any illness is to admit that you have a problem, and I think it is time I finally did that.
Hello, my name is Nikola, and I have a problem
(echoed replies of anonymous sufferers in the room "Hello Nikola")
I don't understand how it happened, but today I realised that it has finally come to the point of being problematic and I need to find help.
I'm a stationary hoarder.
And not in the "I went around my house and found all the pens I could and stuffed them in a pencil-case" type of border. The "I was studying for my exams and emptied my pencil case to find something and realised I have a a gazillion highlighters".
Now I'm known for being a little OCD with highlighting everything, I think it makes it look pretty and even though the end result provides no substantial help to my memorisation of notes whatsoever, the initial action of dragging this colourful texter that still leaves the words visible across the page gives me a high level of satisfaction.
And everyone has the stack of 4 or 5 different types of highlighters, but when it gets to the point where you literally have 3 types of highlighters in the SAME colour for 5 colours, with one packet still UNOPENED, you begin to understand that the "preparation for exam" collection has transferred into the "obsessively buying because I can" collection.
And the pens! It's the same with that too, there's the packs of ten that I have YET TO OPEN whilst 20 more are sitting in my pencil case of all shapes and sizes! It's the same thing, I think I'm going to run out so I buy some more JUST INCASE I happen to lose twenty pens in the next 48 hours, and I repeat this until my whole breakfast bar can be covered in them.
So if anyone knows of any hoarders anonymous groups I can go to, the help would be thoroughly appreciated.
Accumulation (the acquisition or gradual gathering of something)
Nik xx
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