Hoarders

[debidoo]

Darn I love those shows.  I have some UK streaming channels and there are some different Hoarder shows on those as well.  I am disturbed and entertained by them at the same time.  My mom bless her was a closet hoarder and my husband was just an outright hoarder and that is the only thing I miss about him not still being on this earth.  My son also has those tendencies and has paid hundreds for a storage unit full of stuff he has paid for ten times over.  Sad.  Do you ever watch those shows?

[Mizzkizz7]

I feel sorry for those people that live in those conditions. I personally couldn't do it but these people need help with getting rid of the things they no longer need. But I like watching Hoarders too!

[tjshorty]

My kids think I am a hoarder then I remind them of whom the junk really belongs to.  I threaten to throw it out then I think why should I do all of the work?  The few times that I have managed to clear a spot, one of them brings more stuff to fill that spot.  I can't win. 

I have watch the shoes a few times.  I can relate.  LOL

[jkhanson]

I can't understand hoarders.  It does seem to be a condition/diagnosis/issue for people that they cannot control.  They are helpless to help themselves.

[UGetPaid]

Other than sports and a few other documentary programs, two of my guilty pleasures when it comes to TV shows (because most of the network stuff is crap, most of the cable news is biased, and all of the reality shows are scripted drama) are Hoarders and My 600 Pound Life.


I'm no psychologist, but I find the psychological issues of the people featured on those two shows absolutely fascinating. Nobody would choose to live like that (I'm talking about both living in filth with deep attachment to useless trash and eating oneself to morbid obesity to the point of death) without some sort of deep seated trauma/drama.


The train wreck episodes of both shows can be infuriating and heart breaking, but the success stories are very uplifting.


I am both a bit of a pack rat and I've struggled with trying to drop about 20 extra pounds on my mid-section that will not go away. Neither issue has a severe impact on my life or health and I don't obsess over my possessions or my desire for unhealthy food. But in a non-extreme case, I loosely identify and sympathize with the show subjects who are not complete A-holes.

[catchow]

I had an aunt who was an extreme hoarder   She is no longer with us. But she was one who had pathways through the house We tried hundreds of times to clean her house for her, but she would get upset with us and start screaming at us to get out of her house

[Tresbn00]

I hoard bank accounts, stock investments, bond investments, peer to peer lending investments, tax lien purchases, and venture capital purchases but they only take up room on my phone and computer memory. I have started collecting precious metals again but they take up less room than a pair of shoes. I do have clutter that I need to get rid of but it is usually in the form of stale dated files that have reached their seven year statute of limitation period and I slowly shift them to my shredder box at my day time job. I live as much of a minimalist lifestyle as possible. I do not watch the hoarder show as I am usually too busy for television. I was on the board of a non-profit that helped repair a woman's house while she was in an institution for a psychological evaluation and she was a hoarder. I had to review the contents and was utterly amazed.

[gtdoss]

I don't usually have a chance to watch those hoarding shows, but when I do, it's always really interesting. Since I am a compulsive thrower-awayer, it blows my mind that folks can hold onto stuff like that, especially when there's tons of it! I know it's a kind of mental illness, especially when it gets to piling over their heads. It must be devastating to these folks when someone comes in and cleans it up, but I also think they like it when they actually having walking and living space. 

[jkhanson]

I can't understand hoarders.  It does seem to be a condition/diagnosis/issue for people that they cannot control.  They are helpless to help themselves.

I am scanning photos today and remembered this FC post.....so I pulled up an episode of HOARDERS to have on in the background.  The show states that hoarding is a mental illness.  Google also says:
Previously classified as merely a symptom or sub-type of obsessive-compulsive disorder, experts have promoted compulsive hoarding from sub-type to actual disorder. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition, or DSM-5, classifies hoarding disorder as a mental illness separate from other disorders

[bretay]

we had a neighbor who turned into a hoarder when his wife died..he passed and now the hoses were left to the city..and they sold them for taxes and they are being sold and having to be cleaned out..a big eye sore..but so glad to see them being cleaned out..

[Hoss40]

I enjoy watching Hoarder shows as well. I just feel sorry for the people living in those conditions.

[countrygirl12]

I can't understand hoarders.  It does seem to be a condition/diagnosis/issue for people that they cannot control.  They are helpless to help themselves.

I am scanning photos today and remembered this FC post.....so I pulled up an episode of HOARDERS to have on in the background.  The show states that hoarding is a mental illness.  Google also says:
Previously classified as merely a symptom or sub-type of obsessive-compulsive disorder, experts have promoted compulsive hoarding from sub-type to actual disorder. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th edition, or DSM-5, classifies hoarding disorder as a mental illness separate from other disorders

I do not believe that. Everything is a mental illness these days. That is just a cop out. A way to excuse a behavior. Kind of like the majority of kids are in counseling in grade school and put on pills.

[countrygirl12]

we had a neighbor who turned into a hoarder when his wife died..he passed and now the hoses were left to the city..and they sold them for taxes and they are being sold and having to be cleaned out..a big eye sore..but so glad to see them being cleaned out..

I would like to have a job cleaning a house after someone died like that.  I know people who have done it and they got to keep anything they wanted out of the house.  The person found a big screen working tv in the house she was cleaning.  The real estate person hired someone to do the cleaning.  Although usually the real estate person will take anything worth taking before the cleaning person comes in.  I guess I would have to see the house before I agreed to it.  Some places you would need hazmat to go in.

[ghunter]

I used to watch that program, sometime I still do.

[dreamyxo]

Yup I watch Hoarders.  So glad I'm not one.