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People who stay at home or become economically unstable due to the coronavirus pandemic are under a lot of stress, which is thought to have caused a kind of illness where they cannot throw things away.

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Yosuke Kawakami, president of waste collection and cleaning company Rerise. He says the number of cleaning requests from households has doubled from 80 a month to about 190 a month since last March, with 80% of clients single people in their 20s to late 30s.

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OCD (Obsessive Compulsive Disorder). Believed to be caused by anxiety. It is treatable.

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This ‘hoarding’ of cash, possessions and even, toilet paper, is an inherent behavior from the PTSD suffered by survivors of war and past disasters of which the policy makers offered no real relief or counseling.

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Yes @AlanHarrison 8:30am - It is treatable.“ For followup, questions for the media arise:

“Where can the Japanese people go for help?

What provisions have the government made?

Is there ‘a plan’ or, are they still ‘studying’ it?

And, “What portion of pres. Yosuke Kawakami, ‘double in businessand profits will be set aside/donated for the treatment of the economic instability, stress, mental illnesses, etc that ReRise is profiting from?

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Yep, anxiety related illnesses have gone through the roof in many countries.

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No, economically unstable people simply can’t afford the garbage costs. It’s very expensive, if you want to throw away more than the usual household trash using the also expensive 45litre plastic bags. Many people have to think about it twice. What do you think, why everyone throws things away, on roads, into nature? Yes, because it’s expensive to do it regular and there aren’t any free trash cans as there were anywhere decades ago, in my country. Don’t know how it was here, but...

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