Featured TV series "Hoarders."

All good to hear so STOP that!!!

 

Bdigger, I think your stories of her would make a great book.

 

Most hoarders are casually convinced that they can throw things away, until they actually have to do it, then the anger, aggression, and meltdowns start.

It's a great show, or was. Not sure that the one I used to watch is still on. I don't know about the proceeds, but I do know that the organizers and psychologists they hire aren't cheap, and most of the hoarder-types could never pay for them on their own.

 

I love the show "Hoarders" because of two reasons. One, people are getting help when normally they wouldn't have. Two, it educates people about what hoarding means. For people that do not understand I often ask the question, "What would anxiety look like or what would depression look like if it could be seen?" The physical part of hoarding is just an outward symptom or extension of them, and criticizing their stuff is the same as criticizing them. It is hard to get people to understand that only when the compulsion is addressed can the physical part be tackled.

 

I just have to wonder if .. when the hoarder gets "healed" how THEY would feel about the fact that they had been filmed in their worst circumstances and too ill to have understood it all? .. sitting there as workers loaded up bags of human feces, dead rats, filth everywhere .. toilets and baths full of muck and no place to bathe. And there stands the family, all critical and angry .. playing it out for the camera, maybe THEY all could have pooled their money and got some help for their kin. I'm sure that the hoarder would then feel a great deal of 'anxiety' and 'depression'. I would feel more comfortable if I thought that the hoarder was well enough to even GIVE their permission to film them .. Joy.

 

Andy Warhol was a hoarder, but if you're rich and/or famous, it's just eccentric

 

I went into a hoarders house at an estate sale.
It was an eye opener if there ever was one. They people running it handed out masks and gloves and it was on a hot 90 degree summer day. The aroma was pungent stink.

Many pets or animals found there were long gone. Most were removed before the sale started but their little gifts they left all over the place were here and there.

Still and all, it was the best estate sale I ever went to. These people were true
collectors. A lot of stuff still in the original plastic packaging. So much mcm stuff.

Came home threw out my sneakers, washed my clothes 2 times and needed 3 showers before I could get the smell of that place out of my nose.
Nothing I purchased had odors. I do the sniff test at every sale I go to.

It was the best stinkin sale ever.

I have watched that Hoarders show, but my gag response is sensitive so I have to turn it off most of the time. They are indeed souls who have lost their way.