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Antithesis · 09-07-2009, 07:37 PM

Upon your recommendation, I have set up my PVR to record it tonight. Don't know why but this topic is really interesting to me, I suppose because I'm the opposite ... get rid of stuff I don't use yearly (more or less).

socalwingfan · 09-07-2009, 07:42 PM

I saw one last week - if you think rotting food is something, wait to you see this one dude's bathroom (he throws NOTHING away). Although I thought he was more a lazy slob than a hoarder.

sclitheroe · 09-07-2009, 07:43 PM

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At least with a drug addiction you could understand why they get that way, the high feeling feels really damn good, but this just makes no sense, what the hell do you get out of having rotting food all over your floors? Would be so frustrating to know someone like that.

Because its basically the same - the behavior is triggering the reward pathways in the brain

Tyler · 09-07-2009, 07:45 PM

It seems that pretty much all of these hoarders are the way they are due to some traumatic experience in their life. Kind of sad really. In most of these episodes it don't seem like the person will ever recover fully.

Antithesis · 09-07-2009, 07:46 PM

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Originally Posted by fotze

At least with a drug addiction you could understand why they get that way, the high feeling feels really damn good, but this just makes no sense, what the hell do you get out of having rotting food all over your floors? Would be so frustrating to know someone like that.

Maybe it is some kind of high, I don't know. I recall when my wife's Grandpa passed away and we had to clean out his apartment (that he'd lived in for maybe 50 years or something) and he had somehow kept almost everything he'd ever bought, old broken electric shavers, and their cases, and their booklets, TVs, books, hats, all sorts of junk. It was incredible.

ricoFlame · 09-07-2009, 07:46 PM

i actually stumbled upon this show tonight. I always thought that I was a packrat...not so much. that is a serious disorder. yikes.

ricoFlame · 09-07-2009, 07:54 PM

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Originally Posted by fotze

The lady picking through the rotting pumpkin on the floor to salvage the seeds. She needs to be in a hospital.

no no, I can still eat that

09-07-2009, 08:00 PM

No, she said it was a good pumpkin and she wants to grow more.

I've been watching it since the first show. I don't know why I watch. It's pretty gross.

Caged Great · 09-07-2009, 08:05 PM

My father is like this. You would not believe how much crap was in his garage..... a 3 car garage full to the rafters, not even able to get a car in there. It took nearly a week to get rid of it all.

Sainters7 · 09-07-2009, 08:08 PM

I've watched a few times, that show creeps me out.

yads · 09-07-2009, 09:16 PM

Yeah me too. I know a guy who has a mild form of this. He collects electronics that people throw away. Goes dumpster diving for stuff. Sure he gets some good stuff, but he has no use for any of it. His apartment is scary.

drewboy12 · 09-07-2009, 09:18 PM

Ya this show is crazy.... Watched the first two episodes... Not sure how far in it is yet, pretty sick how those peoples minds work. Interesting though at the same time.

HOOT · 09-07-2009, 09:42 PM

I can never watch a full show because it is just too gross. But I will throw it on to make me feel better about how lazy I can be with cleaning.

The Ditch · 09-07-2009, 10:12 PM

These people have mental illnesses, I mean, I guess even I like to gawk at them on TV but it's pretty sad to see that these people just don't get the mental health help they need and to see how far it's ballooned out of control.

Ice · 09-07-2009, 10:29 PM

My sister-in-law's condo looks like that. She's never been tidy, even when she still lived at home. Then she married a packrat, who's parents are hoarders. Shorty after they moved in, you could see clutter and they didn't clean anything. Then they got more and more stuff that they never got rid of, still didn't clean anything. The only room that didn't get gross was my nephew's bedroom, she had enough sense to leave him a clean place to go. But everything else was pure filth and stuff everywhere. She also had three different pets who have pee'd all over that place. You could still see cat litter on the floor even though her cat died three years ago. Looking back, we probably should've seen this coming. But its hard to tell the difference at first between someone being a hoarder and someone being a slob. I'm still really not sure which category she falls in to.

Superfraggle · 09-07-2009, 10:32 PM

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Originally Posted by The Ditch

These people have mental illnesses, I mean, I guess even I like to gawk at them on TV but it's pretty sad to see that these people just don't get the mental health help they need and to see how far it's ballooned out of control.

How do you define mental illness? Not having a TV, I haven't seen this special, but I have dealt with youth with hoarding issues, which often seems to stem more from upbringing than anything physiologically wrong with their brains. I have no doubt that there is something wrong there and they need professional help, but to paint them all as "mentally ill" is a bit too much of a broad stroke, IMO.

DOK · 09-07-2009, 11:12 PM

That young guy tonight didn't really fit the bill. I've watched the show quite a few times and he struck me as being outside of the norm. Sure, he has issues, but like someone said, I think he was more of a slob than an actual hoarder.

ben voyonsdonc · 09-08-2009, 01:23 AM

I watch this show, Intervention and Obsessed. I think hoarding is a mental illness...usually interconnected with depression and OCD. It bothers me that they don't seem to use the Cognitive therapy that they do on the Obsessed show. You can't go into a hoarder's house and simply expect to organize them...you need to help them face the mental illness first and give them the tools to maintain their world.

BuzzardsWife · 09-08-2009, 01:59 AM

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Originally Posted by ben voyonsdonc

I watch this show, Intervention and Obsessed. I think hoarding is a mental illness...usually interconnected with depression and OCD. It bothers me that they don't seem to use the Cognitive therapy that they do on the Obsessed show. You can't go into a hoarder's house and simply expect to organize them...you need to help them face the mental illness first and give them the tools to maintain their world.

agree 100 percent..i also think they should be removed from the environment and put in a hospital till someone goes in and tosses it all in the bin

09-08-2009, 04:30 AM

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Originally Posted by Superfraggle

How do you define mental illness? Not having a TV, I haven't seen this special, but I have dealt with youth with hoarding issues, which often seems to stem more from upbringing than anything physiologically wrong with their brains. I have no doubt that there is something wrong there and they need professional help, but to paint them all as "mentally ill" is a bit too much of a broad stroke, IMO.

Living in your own fecesor wanting to keep rotting pumpkin seeds so you can plant more pumpkins so they can rot in your livingroom again would make me think they have something not wired quite right.