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[Townsend]

On 3/30/2014 tdog said:

I stopped watching those shows because it takes me to a place I don't want to go in my mind. I feel badly for those living in such misery, but I truly do not understand the disease of hoarding. To live in filth and just accept it mystifies me. To subject your family to it as well, is beyond my comprehension.

These people are usually severely depressed caused by many different things in their lives. They no longer care about anything at all, and their circumstances become overwhelming.....so much so, that they do nothing and don't care enough to make the effort to change things. They "tune out" living. Generally speaking, and in a number of cases, they are substituting things for all the other things missing in their lives, personal relationships, etc., etc. Very sad situation.

[Anniecamp]

Not that long ago, people in such situations would be considered mentally ill and institutionalized. It's not that way anymore, so people are left to die in it.

[littleblueparakeet]

On 3/29/2014 sidsmom said:

I find those Hoarding shows eerily fascinating. It's like a bad accident I can't look away from. One lady didn't have running water, so she placed plastic store bags in the toilet & after "using" them, just placed them in a corner. Hazmat uniformed cleanup folks had to be called in. Another lady had years worth of used needles from her insulin injections. Another couple had rabbits everywhere...their home was basically a rabbit hutch...so much stuff in the floor.

Was that the same woman who blamed her 2 children for her hoard, saying they won't take out the garbage? Also, the daughter was cooking eggs for her mother and as she was cooking, you could see roaches crawling around near the frying pan.

I'm watching Hoarding: Buried Alive right now and it's pretty tame compared to other episodes I've watched. This episode features a man named Gary who has not 1, but 2 houses packed with stuff. The one house is right on the ocean, and instead of enjoying and living in it, it's being used as a garbage dump. Sad.

[littleblueparakeet]

On 3/29/2014 Yuban3 said:

The worst ones (in my opinion) are the animal hoarders. My heart breaks for those poor innocent creatures, trapped in filth.

Why does the owner do it? Because they "love" them.

That's not love.

Those particular episodes are very upsetting. As soon as I see 1 dead cat or another animal that has died in the hoard, I change the channel quickly. It's too heartbreaking to watch.