Diogenes’ Syndrome and Intellectual Disability: An Uncommon Association or Under Diagnosed?

Diogenes or Havisham syndrome and the mortuary

“…Although the use of the name Diogenes has been criticized (as Diogenes, a fourth century BC Greek philosopher did not live in isolated squalor or hoard rubbish) [4], over the years more cases of the syndrome have been reported in the literature. Subsequent studies have shown associations with a wide range of neurocognitive disorders including dementia, psychosis, frontal lobe damage, intellectual disability, personality disorders, substance abuse, autism, and affective disorders [5,6]. Alternative names that have been proposed include disposophobia, or messy house, Havisham, and senile squallor syndromes.…”