Hoarders often suffer from depression, anxiety or impulse control problems.

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In bulimics, such traits include risk-taking behaviour and problems with impulse control.

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Symptoms that nagged Duerson after he retired from the NFL in 1993 were typical of cases such as Webster and Grimsley, including problems with impulse control, an increasingly short fuse and headaches.

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