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Diogenes' syndrome in patients with intellectual disability: 'a rose by any other name'?
H Williams1, R Clarke, Y Fashola
1Psychiatry of Learning Disability, Thomas Guy House, Guy's Hospital, London, England.
Journal of Intellectual Disability Research : JIDR
|October 24, 1998
Abstract:
Diogenes' syndrome is characterized by marked self-neglect, domestic squalor, social withdrawal and hoarding of rubbish (syllogomania). The syndrome has been reported to occur in association with a wide variety of conditions, but the present authors were unable to find any previous reports of Diogenes' syndrome in patients with intellectual disability.