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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?
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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!
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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
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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.
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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.
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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 :(
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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.
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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. :peace: :heart:
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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
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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..
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I enjoy watching Hoarder shows as well. I just feel sorry for the people living in those conditions.
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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.
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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.
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I used to watch that program, sometime I still do.
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Yup I watch Hoarders. So glad I'm not one.
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For those who don't claim to be hoarders......Lucky you! For those who don't believe hoarding is a clinical mental condition..... Lucky You! I believe, hoarding is a genetic! My Aunt is a very good example of one, she had newspapers piled up in her bath tube up the ceiling & when I snake went & hid in her bathroom, it was a screaming running for all episode. I'm also a hoarder, I don't know why I can't throw away stuff. It must be some post WWII behavior, making us save everything to the extreme. It must be inherited bc I see my dad hoarding napkins & plastic forks & spoons at resturants & diners. The only way I can make myself feel better about this awful condition is to Watch Hoarders because I'm watching people with this condition a thousand times worst than I am! It's really a sad case!
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I have watched it in the past. Sadly I know someone like that, though they have gotten a lot better over the past few years.
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I’ve watched the show and don’t understand how that starts. I get once it’s a path you just keep adding, but how does it start. I’m not trying to be funny, I don’t understand. Do you one day just decide to put say the newspaper on the floor, and the next day add to it, and so on? Hoarding is one thing my sister and I are definitely not. Our mothers two favorite sayings were, 1) when in doubt..throw it out and 2) put it away, or I’ll throw it away (and she did many times) Thankfully my husband is a clean freak also.
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I feel bad for the people on the shows. I know some people who are like that but not as bad as the show.
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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
Funny how they think you are the hoarder, but it is all of their things. I have the same problem with 4 grown children. But have of late been getting rid of things, I call and asked them if they want if not it goes to the VVA.
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I used to watch Hoarders when I was in high school.
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Hoarders just have a hard time letting things go. Don't consider it an illness just an issue that some have. Their are probably several reason's why people do it. Loss of a loved one, family moving out, keeping onto a memory of a deer friend could be some reasons.
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I love this show (and the related Hoarding: Buried Alive series). Every time I watch either of these shows, I have this extreme desire to clean my house a million times, LOL.
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I used to watch these shows regularly. However, I rarely watch them now. I think I just got somewhat depressed that people can live that way. When there is a home where there is human and animal feces all over and spoiled food and bugs that must stink to high heaven, it is obvious the person has mental health problems. That is why there is a psychologist and an organizing team working together. No one without issues would live in the circumstances described which puts their own health in danger as well as isolates them from both friends and family.
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I have seen some clips but never watched an entire show. My brother is a hoarder and can't sleep in his own bedroom for so much stuff. We have to stay in a hotel when we visit because I'm told the place is a mess and he will not let anyone come in there. He claim he's gathering stuff to go live in a cave so that must be a mental case.
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I never watch those shows because I am living live with a hoarder myself and have to deal with the problem every day of my life. My house and yard are jam packed with stuff I am just dying to get rid of.
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I never watch these programs very sad
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I've only watched a couple of those shows. I myself am/was a hoarder. I went to therapy for it because I didn't know myself why I did that. It is a mental illness caused by trauma in one's life. My trauma was my parents taking turns getting their last rights in the hospitals.
I've gotten better and my daughters and oldest granddaughter have given much of my stuff to good will and churches. I myself have given away much, much stuff over the years.
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I've only watched a couple of those shows. I myself am/was a hoarder. I went to therapy for it because I didn't know myself why I did that. It is a mental illness caused by trauma in one's life. My trauma was my parents taking turns getting their last rights in the hospitals.
I've gotten better and my daughters and oldest granddaughter have given much of my stuff to good will and churches. I myself have given away much, much stuff over the years.
I am happy you took the initiative to get therapy, understand the root of your problem, and you are constantly trying to keep it under control. I wish you much luck on that and hope you are increasingly successful!
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I've only watched a couple of those shows. I myself am/was a hoarder. I went to therapy for it because I didn't know myself why I did that.
So I am asking seriously, not poking fun or belittling. Can you be "cured" of this condition or is it like alcoholism - once a hoarder, always a hoarder? Or can you get better and still have underlying urges and fall off the wagon if you have another triggering moment?
I am not a hoarder, but I do sometimes find myself having difficulty throwing away things that remind me of someone or something; other times I keep something that I don't immediately need, but may find useful down the road. Those are two justifications that many of the people featured on the show use - in a much larger circumstance.
You see a lot of the folks on the show fall back into the same pattern over and over again.
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yes i do like watching those shows, but i cant relate to the hoarding,i dont like to keep stuff that i dont use
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One of the shows we watch together, me and my girls. It saddens and makes us sick at times, but it is a good show that opens up nice discussions of life with them.
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I feel sorry for people who thinks they have to hold on to things and stuff from when they were in the first grade. But what is wrong with them when they throw food everywhere. Nothing is clean. Who walks on Toxic stuff on the floor, walls, bathroom, kitchen.
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I could be a hoarder because I love selling at flea markets so everyone always gives me their junk to sell and it usually ends up in my basement.
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I watch every now and then.
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600 lb Life is a guilty pleasure of mine too, along with Strange Addictions and Extreme Cheapskates.
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.
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Kind of not liking hoarders too much right now. There is no toilet paper in Colorado. People are stealing it from work and public restrooms in desperation. Thank heavens the local stores are catching on and putting limits on people. Even bottled water. I saw a Toyota Sequoia with it's cargo area loaded to the roof with cases of water. My understanding is tat this is a two week flu and doesn't involve bathroom problems. I have filter s on all of my drinking water faucets (including the refrigerator) and the filters last six months. We generally pick up a large package of toilet paper from Costco but the hoarders are grabbing them all before you can get fifteen feet through the door. We ordered our toilet paper (because we needed it) online from Costco and avoided the madness.
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I'm not a hoarder, but I am glad I stocked up on toilet paper a couple months ago when Winn Dixie had a sale. Walmart had a completely empty aisle when I was there yesterday.