i cant believe they don’t charge these people for how they treat their animals. I get that they have mental issues, but it’s one thing to give yourself a bad quality of life, and another thing to make an animal suffer. The pile of dog poop shows that she doesn’t even walk her pets, and neglects them.
I've had some depressive episodes. Kinda in a funk right now. But my pets are taken care of. Always. I've fed them before I've fed myself. What I don't understand is the ones who have dead pets and don't even notice. How in the hell do you become nose blind to the smell of death?! NOTHING covers up that scent. It's vomit inducing. I puked the first time I came across a body while hiking. It was a coyote. My sense of smell is crazy good (even though I'm a smoker and have brutal allergies). I legit cannot imagine my home reeking like that. 🤮 🤮 🤮
@@feraltaco4783I definitely agree. I pretty hate this world but my animals are the reason for why I don't exit from this evil world. I can't imagine ever neglecting any of my many animals.
Sometimes they do. But it's also like... getting blood from a stone. If they can't really understand that what they are doing is abuse, then what does the punishment do?
There was an episode where this super sweet old guy was told his hoard was 1. Gonna get him evicted and 2. Was affecting his incredibly sick wife. So he let them come and he didn’t keep anything that they didn’t need, he goes, “don’t even show it to me, my wife is way more important than my stuff.” That is one of the few times i’ve seen someone on this show be so cooperative. His wife was very sick and all the stuff, which was mostly outside, was exacerbating her illness. He sat there holding her hand, just nodding his head and saying ok when they were showing him stuff.
Wholesome... one of the only hoarders on the show that isn't a raging narcissist and actually loves his family. Pretty sure I bawled my eyes out watching that episode. Such a pure love he has for her.
I have a favorite vape battery I've become attached to. In my defence it's a very cute, albeit cheap, uniquely shaped one. I need uniquely shaped, because the stick variety and I hate each other.
I have a favorite ashtray, its large & made of crystal with a pinwheel design. Its just a cigar ashtray. That being said I cant pretend Im attached to it lol
If I forget to clean my cat litter box one day, I feel like scum. This, wtf, kids and animals shouldn’t be in this. They are innocent and no choice who they get stuck with.
One of my cats is a walking war crime. The smells that come from him are so bad. 😂 I can't even deal when he uses the litter box. He's also stupid fluffy so the box needs to be clean to avoid mats and hanging poopie.
@@feraltaco4783my 2 smell like a nuclear fallout, the ammonia from the pee is killing my lungs but it needs to be done but it's worth it for my babys
@@SileneKitty this hsould make your stress worse....The Toxoplasma parasite does not become infectious until 1 to 5 days after it is shed in a cat's feces. Wash hands with soap and water after cleaning out a cat's litter box. Teach children the importance of washing hands to prevent infection.
I know right!? She can’t take time to walk her dogs and clean up after them, but she’s gonna have time to fix the chair and return her rancid fridge like wtf??
Seriously. She said she was going to clean and return the busted fridge, but if she didn’t immediately clean it when she found maggots in it because how disgusting that is, she was never going to get around to it. If maggots aren’t enough of a motivation, nothing will be.
When I was still living at home, I was starting to have a hoarding problem. It was starting to spread from my room out into the hallway. My mom didn't know what to do. She tried to help me before it got as bad as it was, but she realised it had gotten so bad that it was just too hard for me to tackle it. She decided to take things into her own hands, and when I was gone for a week camping with friends, she completely cleaned my room. It took her the entire week, and she got sick. She tried to salvage what she could and threw most things away. There were no feces or anything, but there was food and garbage, which is what made her sick, I think. I was upset at first because she threw things away, but I honestly couldn't even tell you what had been tossed because I didn't have access to most of it to begin with. Shes helped me handle things before they get out of hand and too overwhelming. I dont know what I would've done without her help, honestly.
Exactly, it's always going to be hard at first. Some deep breaths to slow down the racing anger though and being explained just that can help someone chill out more. I think the biggest help for hoarders is to clean the place out THEN focus on the mental health after. Absolutely work with them to try to keep the sentimental stuff that's actually of value and not like somebody's trash but if you keep slowing down to give them a chance to decide what they want to keep for everything like that fridge in this video? They're going to find excuses and keep going. Just a "nope it's going" gets it gone, we keep going, and if the person needs to have some space or leave then get it cleaned. Then help them learn healthy habits for keeping things clean, explain to them not how they're nuts but focus on why it's not healthy to live like that. Explain like you said most of the stuff they cover they haven't used in forever anyway because of all the stuff. Even help them lose the mindset that they might need this piece of trash or they think they need 1000 totes of stuff everywhere. And especially when animals are involved? Some cases they should absolutely have to take responsibility for that and get jail time. It's abuse to the animal and that's already illegal. I'm not saying forever but proportionate to the level of abuse. Then in jail also work to help rehabilitate them too to help form the better habits that'll make it easier to keep their home clean healthy and still be able to keep things that they do want and use. I think we assume we have to baby these hoarders too much when getting rid of stuff and it actually creates more problems.
I had a hoarding issue too, it really does line in with depression. Difference is, my parents just yelled at me and didn't actually help me. Neglect is real. I didn't get help till I met my now husband. He actually helped me clean, and gave me a good "mental scrub" if you will.
The fact that you were okay with your mom cleaning your room without permission and didn’t go back to hoarding shows you really weren’t a hoarder. Disorganized, maybe. Messy, maybe. But not a hoarder.
My mother was hoarder. I was told that before I was born, the family suffered a house fire and lost everything, which triggered my mother's hoarding. I was raised in a home full of junk. I had to climb over things like chainsaws (we lived in the country and used to cut our own firewood) just to get to my own bedroom. Even now, as a 40-something adult, I have the thought "I should save this" or "maybe I can fix it," so I have to work really hard not to become like this. I've used digital media (mostly video games) to help me curb these tendencies. Hoarding also goes hand in hand with other mental disorders (ADHD, Bipolar, etc.)
@@1WEareBUFO1 you have no idea how close to reality this comment is. Back in the day, I used to play WoW. I hoarded the silliest things in that game. My storage might have been terribly cluttered with junk, but it helped me prevent hoarding junk in my actual house.
I find it interesting how people always say that watching Hoarders makes them feel better about their slightly messy homes. Watching this makes me SCARED. Makes me start throwing out everything in sight. I get terrified, like if I don’t straighten up I’ll end up like these people. I’ll start throwing everything in sight away to the point that I’m getting rid of actually useful stuff!
same, and they really latch onto ebery little thing, I have that issue too tbh, but not to this extend and am trying my best to keep it to one drawer of crap, still could be none but well, its a step.
Grew up in the same situation, I'm out of that place now but my parents are still hoarders... I've thought many times about trying to clean up their house. But I know without professional help it will just pile up again, and you can't make anyone get help they don't want.
You know you’ve watched too much “Hoarders” when this hoard seems tame compared to some of the episodes on the main version of the show. Why does this version of “Hoarders” not have the mental health experts and biohazard clean up crew? They seem so unprepared to actually help these people.
@@wumbology6072 Or the poop lady. Or the one who found her dentures in the nastiness and popped em right back in without washing. Or the one who tried to pass off a dead rat as art… 😂
The grossest ones are always the ones where animals are involved. The worse (most stuff) hoard was one I saw where this guy had a bunch of storage units fullllll. The lady with two houses (camping with her basically second husband) was bad too.
She's got a lot of the classic narcissistic trademarks The way she speaks as if she's always the victim no matter who's laying down their life to help her
I bet she had a headache because of all the toxic junk being disturbed and wafted into the air 😬 I grew up in a house like this and I frequently got upper respiratory infections
I once saw an episode of hoarders where a little dog literally curled up in its cage and died. The skeleton was perfectly preserved. It was the worst one I saw. The hoarder didn't care AT ALL - did not shed a tear and made excuses.
I remember that one. I sobbed like a little baby when i saw that. I hope he is eating all the beef sticks and peeing on all the hydrants somewhere out there.
I remember that. It was absolutely disturbing. That poor dog's body had to rot away and have flies and maggots pick it's bones clean...it must've smelled horrid!! I wonder how long it was in that cage before it passed..
Amen, had an aunt accidentally put an unfertilized egg in with the chicken hatcher. she had it explode in her face and even though I wasnt even in the same room I had to run and throw up. R.I.P aunts nose (and possibly sanity)
Cleaned someone's garage for extra cash as a kid and there was appeared to be an egg broken on the ground. Terrible smell, 20 years later I can still smell it. Still love eggs though
I can’t even afford a house and this lady literally defiles hers to the point it’s unlivable. I feel so bad for all the animals that got stuck with her. She doesn’t deserve them-she needs help and should be in assisted living. I know that’s harsh-but it’s for her own safety and everyone else’s.
Homeless people take care of their belongings better than this. It’s seriously fucked up that someone can own a house and defile it to the point of it essentially just needing to be knocked down when there are so many people without a place to live that would be so grateful to a have a roof over their heads they’d probably clean that place spotless just to have the opportunity to live in it.
Mental illness is no joke, they get stuck, don't know where to begin and it keeps piling up. Not all of them are attached to it all it gets very overwhelming.
@@thethe4665obviously the illness is not her choice, but I can’t imagine putting innocent animals through that… I’m not the cleanest person and I do skimp on cleaning at times, but I care WAY more about my pets than myself. I always try to make sure my pets stuff and areas they are in are clean and safe. I’m mentally ill as well and have family members who are hoarders. Even the hoarders I know make sure to keep the hoarded piles concentrated and not dirty. They care about their pets too much to let things go to this extent.
To be fair, when you got bodily excretion like that, you are supposed to call in a biohazard team that’s actually certified to deal with it because they’ve been trained specifically what to do to keep everyone safe while cleaning it up. I work in an old hospital, and one of the 4th floor bathrooms had the pipes back up and literally explode. Sewer everywhere, floor to ceiling. We literally just went NOPE and closed that bathroom completely until the biohazard team we have could come and decontaminate it.
Another example of why they should reopen the mental hospitals. People like that need to live in a home. If they can’t take care of themselves basically then someone has to.
I agree that some should be reopened, but its difficult to regulate the care provided for hoarders. Some can and have gotten better (like my grandmother), but i agree that some may need assisted living
@@the_snaz the ones set in their ways and refuse help probably need managed living w a carer, there's definitely rehabilitation for some people though some people just spiral and realize they're stuck, but can't get out of their mess people like the chick in this video definitely need to be forced to live in assisted living if not a flat out carehome, they're a threat to the environment and others in the area (one spark in that house would send the entire neighborhood in flames, this isn't even accounting for the blatant animal neglect)
The mental hospitals are open. Unless you mean asylums in which case no we shouldn't reopen those we should create some new sort of system. Assisted living is also already a thing that exists jsdoif I am assuming you live in america though
@@technoschnauzer4327 yup in America. And in a lot of the states here they closed all those types of things. I agree 10000% there needs to be a new system. The old one was full of people who abused those that needed the help. But there most definitely is a need for a proper place
The people that are cleaning are volunteers they don’t get paid they just want to help the community and get her some help. They need a specialized team to deal with the biohazards appropriately or many of the volunteers can get sick and bring it back home with them to their families. Dealing with the psyche of a hoarder is the biggest struggle, they blame others and can’t take responsibility for how they got there in the first place. Most of the time after these shows they offer them aftercare which comes with the very much needed therapy in hopes it doesn’t happen again. Sad shit
I'm currently living with my mom who hoards. You can't just simply convince them that they need to get rid of things. Their stuff is much more important. It's a mental illness issue and it's worse when they don't want to seek help.
I hope your mom gets the help she needs and accepts it, it can be so hard to get help for people, but you're right its a lot harder when they aren't seeking or accepting help. I wish you all the best in the future.
My mom's a hoarder and it's transferred to me. It's so hard because you see value in literally every little thing..I used to keep Snapple bottles and say "just in case I need them" I'm slowly getting better after watching this show. It was an eye opener for sure
@@elitings9965 Yeah it takes awareness and diligence to challenge yourself to stop yourself from being overwhelmed by hoarding tendencies, i'm not a hoarder but i have hoarding tendencies, i also have several glass bottles because i liked the shape or the drink, and they make me happy. It's a comfort thing, they could be useful or they make me happy to see them. You got to keep on top of it, if you haven't found a use give them away or recycle if throwing away is too difficult. i get waste shame which is another reason it can be hard to throw away something, but i always make sure any food waste is always disposed or composted. Best of luck to you in your life.
I too live with my mom and finally got her to realize she’s a hoarder recently. She was sick and away for a week, and I took that time to pitch A LOT of junk but still a long ways to go. Cleared 3 rooms, the living room, her room and my room. but the rest of the house is still cluttered. Surprisingly and thankfully she wasn’t upset, she was thrilled and saw how good it looked and it got her willingly pitch more things alongside me. After 15 years. Better late than never. 🥹
@@elitings9965 I'm so glad you're getting help and that you're aware of your problem. It's easy to fall into hoarding and hoarding behavior especially in our consumer society when we're told to put our self worth and to find comfort in worldly items. I hope you continue to getting better and that your mom can too. In cases like we see in the video this lady must have more going on than just hoarding. She literally is living in a house full of decay and waste and filth and doesn't see anything wrong with it. She's surrounding her self with a biohazard, healthy humans don't do that. We can live in clutter and keep things that aren't important but we tend to draw the line at literal shit.
The thing about hoarders is that to them you aren't just throwing out a broken chair. Your throwing out a potentially perfectly functional chair. Everything they own has potential and they're scared they're either going to need it or regret giving it away. It's fear that makes them lash out
I work for geek squad and I tend to hoard everything the client tries to throw away. If one of the items tends to be useful then it justifies me not throwing away obsolete cables away. My van is a mess and I have nowhere to put things.
Not anymore. The newest edition of the DSM5 has a separate diagnosis of hoarding disorder that is separate from ocd. It's not considered a type of ocd anymore.
@@swimfast724 I heard about this, but I think the DSM5 changed a lot of things it shouldn’t have. I still believe hoarding to be a type of OCD, or at least very closely related to it
Alot of hoarding is about control. It's all worth money, or has emotional value, is still good or useful. And then it falls to neglect. You can't clean when you have so much stuff. Shame keeps you twisted up in it. Having others in your space trying to clean is embarrassing and shameful, on top of they're getting rid of your stuff. Coming from a hoarder myself. I consider myself a 'clean' hoarder as I've never gotten to the point of collecting garbage. I like textiles, stuffed animals, books, and have never kept garbage or disgusting things. My space has never degraded like this, but I have the compulsion to buy or collect things I view as valuable or useful. I've been in therapy pretty much my entire life to fight my compulsion. It is incredibly difficult to break the mental loops. You get so overwhelmed that you can't even clean because where do you even start? If you want to keep something where do you put it. Hoarders on this show are so lost in their delusions that it's wild to see.
Her talking abouthow she will just clean it herself is hilarious, also the part where she wanted to try and return a broken fridge thats been possibly sitting there for who knows how long and is infested with bugs is something else.
I can't wrap my head around knowing people are coming to her house to clean and she just left that mountain of doo there for all these people to see and clean. I would die of embarrassment.
i have an aunt who did exactly this. she had a small dog and my dad and uncle showed up to help her move and she had done nothing to prepare. newspaper and old mail all over the floor so the dog could go to the bathroom, the dishwasher and sink were full of dirty dishes, could barely move around the place. my uncle got mad and yelled at her because she was ordering them around and not helping so she went and hid in a closet and cried.
The people who live in places like this are very ill. Hoarding is a mental illness and sometimes it just becomes too much for someone to handle, and the mess becomes overwhelming.
@fjotrathegodless even so, I've watched other hoarders eps. Yes, they were upset their stuff are gone but they stil very much polite about it. This woman just plain rude, demanding and entitled
Bro, if you need a “reason”, be careful because you might feature in the next episode of hoarders 😂😂😂 what an honour it would be for ken and buff to react to it though 😂😂😂
For real, I helped my parents move in a not as bad, but eerily similar, situation and I had a panic attack after I finished helping them. I have hoarding tendencies of my own and I have never wanted to throw so much shit out of my own house then seeing how bad it can get and how horrific it was to deal with
My mother grew up in a hoarders house because of my grandfather, and she is now an extremely clean person. The stories she told us about her childhood...I can't even imagine
Same, in a way. My mom isn’t a hoarder but she….tends to keep way too many things, even things that don’t fit her or that she has absolutely no use for. So my childhood home was always very dirty and messy, to the point where I refused to have any friends over. Imagine things piling up on countertops and every single other surface. She’d even look through my stuff that I intended to donate, and she would keep pretty much all of it. Also the WHOLE house smelled of tobacco. It was laying around EVERYWHERE, I even had to get hospitalized & have my stomach pumped as a toddler bc I swallowed some that was just laying on the floor. (Not moms fault though but you get what I mean) Now as an adult I’m very minimalistic, I hate owning a lot of unnecessary things and dirty/messy surfaces make me feel uncomfortable. I do believe that this is the case with many people who grew up in that kind of environment.
This is unchecked greed, laziness, selfishness and filth. There’s a difference between getting too attached to things, and not cleaning up feces. The ingratitude is also baffling. This woman does not deserve help
The messed up part is they can't burn it down because of the chemicals that would be released into the air would be toxic. So they literally have to approach it this way and clean it
The hoarders usually are angry or mean because they're anxious and upset about their items being taken. Theres also an element of shame for some of these people. Hoarding is based in OCD and is an anxiety based disorder and behavior. Sometimes, anxiety can come out as anger. Especially, when the person is trying to maintain control over their items/themselves. Its very sad. It definitely is best if that person isn't present for this type of cleaning out.
It was actually found out recently that it has almost nothing to with ocd and is more related to attachment disorder but is honestly its own thing. Brain scans are off the charts when they just think of getting rid of one of their possessions. It's almost like they're being abandoned or throwing away a friend. Still definitely a mental disorder and very serious
Exactly. I just saw a comment here that said they’d love for these people to be locked in a box and forced to watch people clean out their house. They talked about how amazingly entertaining it would be to watch them freak out. Obviously their house is disgusting and something needs to happen but the complete lack of empathy for someone suffering is crazy to me.
I’d pay to watch a series where they put these people in a box and completely clear out their house. I know it’s not helpful in the slightest but by god would it be satisfying
For most of them it's extremely traumatizing and makes them hoard 1000x harder to rebuild the hoard they've lost. It's unfortunate because a lot of us feels like doing it that way would have been better. Especially when they've gotten so sick that they can't understand sanitization or health and safety anymore.
My inlaws are maybe only a few steps below this. My wife struggles but doesn't want to end up like this. She grew up learning that all this trash is an extension of herself. Throwing it away is losing a part of yourself. Like literally chopping a limb. It has taken a decade of work for her to break free of that feeling. Even with such progress any big cleaning (spring cleaning, etc) will give her anxiety and make her panic. This isn't built in. This is a learned sickness.
You know, I wanted to do a job like this. Helping people clean their homes and help them get a fresh start, but having to deal with two horders in my life, I learned I do not have the patience to deal with these kind of people. Whether it’s mental or not, I do not have the mental capacity tolerate the berating from someone who would rather drown in their stuff than have walking space or keep their homes.
I can confirm that dogs will pick a spot to poop regularly and stay in that area for the most part. My mom's house got like this a couple times. My sister flew across the country to help me and my brother tackle it in May and she's finally keeping up on it.
The AMOUNT of emotional, physical & mental strength it TAKES to clean up hoards like that has to be incredible... I could never! 🙃 That whole house is just a big OSHA & HOA violation. Demolish that hell hole!!!
@@rinoz47probably "Occupational Safety and Health Administration" in the US, though I don't know if this would necessarily be their domain. I'm not from the US though, I just googled it.
@@rhyleymaster As a normal dwelling OSHA wouldn't apply but the second the cleaning crew stepped in, OSHA applied. It's why they said they couldn't clean up the upstairs because they didn't have the right gear. The right gear to clean biohazard materials is required by OSHA standards. You cannot make someone clean up biohazard stuff without giving them proper training, certification and the proper safety gear to do it.
I just realized that data hoarders are quite literally the opposite of regular hoarders. Highly maintained computer equipment, meticulously organized file systems and databases, etc.
Some of these hoarders need to be institutionalized. I have a hoarder in my family. We've all tried to help her over the years but she was just as insufferable as this woman. Luckily she never had animals. But I've lost contact with her over the last 10 years. Once her son, my cousin, was grown and out of the house we kinda just left her alone. It's so hard to help someone that's fighting you the whole way
So, I know I have too many things and projects myself, so on the one hand, I get it. When I watch one of these shows and think about it like a mental illness, I feel like I can understand a sense of empathy for these people. Or, when I read through the yt comments about people suffering from this illness, I feel like I can grasp some of the emotions that they're talking about. I get it. I like my stuff, too. I don't want to just randomly throw away any of my projects, either. But on the other hand, I have people in my own family who are hoarders, and when I'm confronted with their mess, all my sympathy just seems to fly out the window. I think it's because I know very well what these particular individuals are like aside from the illness, and... it's all part and parcel with it, I guess. It's just so hard for me to understand why they can't take any accountability for their own actions. Like, I know I'm not exactly a minimalist, but I don't think anyone in their right mind would call my house a hoarder house. It's cluttered, sure, but I manage to keep it all pretty clean. Like, clean enough to have people over on a regular basis. Big empty floor spaces. 'Lived in', but fairly normal looking. My coldness on this point seems to be reserved mostly for my own family members, but I just feel like if I'm able to keep my house neat looking with all the shit that I have, they should be able to do it, too. We're from the same background, after all. I guess it just annoys me because I feel like I always had to be the responsible one. So, yes, because of that, I responsibly keep my own house and my things fairly clean. And I'm annoyed that they aren't responsible, and never were, and that they just expect that someone else is going to do everything for them. Well, it ain't going to be me.
I earnestly believe that they aren’t as aggressive as they should be in these scenarios, especially when animals are involved. This needs to be done when they aren’t home so that anything that is trash, broken, or hazardous is gone, and they don’t have the chance to argue about why they should be allowed to keep it because they won’t even know it was there to begin with. Anything salvageable needs to be taken out of the house and put somewhere like a front lawn where they have to go through it before it can go back inside. They need to be given a limit on what they can keep based on the space that they have.
@@IrishHndGrenade they need to do it while they’re not home to get rid of anything that cannot be saved and then bring them back to only go through what’s left. Then they still have that level of control, but they don’t have the option to sit and tell you why they need rotten lettuce and a broken lamp, and more than likely, they won’t remember owning those items anyway.
@@mr22288 i can’t bring myself to see it as mean, honestly. Some people just aren’t capable of taking care of themselves because their mental illness has taken over, and I hope I’m not coming across as hateful. I see it as a fact that just because someone is an adult and appears “normal” that it doesn’t mean they’re capable of taking care of themselves. I feel like it’s more cruel to allow someone to live like this and let them continue on with that kind of life. A facility with rules and employees who can provide proper care would be perfect for people like this who need stability to keep them from causing harm 🥲
@@PorcelainProblems You're not being mean or hateful. Neither of you are. In extreme situations like this, intervention is necessary. However, it's a process that takes time and hard work. And unfortunately, the people that produce these shows only care about the drama they're stirring up for the ratings. It sucks.
@Wicker_ Asylums were terribly cruel institutions that threw people with disorders and illnesses of all kinds together indiscriminately. They were more like jails for the ones people didnt want to deal with, not hospitals for treatment. Mental hospitals now are just what they are hospitals. There are good ones and bad ones, but the goal is treatment for conditions patients can't deal with on their own.
It's all the more sadder when a cleaning team does manage to completely empty the house of a hoard, and then see how too far gone it is because of the years of the extreme hoard having been built up, thus ruining the foundation, the walls, the floors, etc, ultimately rendering the house unlivable.
I am a low level hoarder. If someone is this far gone the best thing that could be done is to put them in a residential or intensive therapy program living somewhere else and get them medicated and treated. And have things that are hazardous removed while they are not there.
Ugh, they dance around her feelings a lot. Somebody needs to step up and tell her she's not well, can't be part of the clean up and do no let her check the pods. Slap her.
yeah she needs a firm no, not just this therapist saying "oh well, what about this" she needs someone to deem her unfit to live alone. she's just going to keep living in filth if left to her own devices. it's not just a matter of not cleaning or throwing things away, it's literally a mental illness. healthy people won't live like this. she could not comprehend why people were reacting to her house the way that they were.
This is why I hate reusable shopping bags. Somebody's gonna bring one from a house like this and set it right on the conveyor belt with all your stuff. Soaked and cat pee and God knows what else. And then they expect the cashier to touch it. 🤢🤮
I remember another show about hoarding, where they actually helped the people's mental problems. And it can be a multitude of reasons why they get angry about throwing things away. Could be past abandonment/fear of loss, or having lost everything in a fire, flood, etc at one point. And things get out of control, usually due to poor mental health. Why we can view it as 'just throw it away' is because we have a different healthier mindset towards it. But for some people in these situations throwing it away feels like life or death even tho it isnt. Sometimes it can be laziness caused by bad mental health too. There is just too many, many, many reasons to why things get bad, and once its bad it gets slowly harder and more overwhelming for someone with poor mental health to fix. And of course its easier to judge them and say 'just do this' but much harder in their shoes. I hope she got help to fix her situation but some people are almost beyond that point.
There was- the original Hoarders show. And on the original there were at least 2 they could not save the homes/properties. They started the Buried Alive ones years after the original.
One of my friends was legally tricked into cleaning out a house like that. She was hospitalized after cleaning began due to illnesses she "unearthed". She found a kitten skeleton under a couch & was literally using a snow shovel to scoop out garbage!
I'd just take the lawsuit, in the US, you can't force people to do illegal things, like clean biohazards without proper gear, the contract would be void.
You couldnt pay me enough to do this. Not to mention you will be replacing the poop with puke. Nothing would ever get cleaned. This one of those jobs ai robots can have anyday.
Cleaning out the dreadful back corner of my garage was like Christmas finding tools LOL. Definitely need organizers and holders for easy access. Now it looks like a fully stocked hardware store for the handyman.
I have the hoarding gene in my family which scares me a lot. I collect things like crazy (TMNT figures, other figures and their boxes, pokemon cards, pop can tabs, monster cans, i used to collect band aids (ive stopped)) and i every time i watch a video like this i get rid of one collection and clean the shit out of my room. Hoarding is scary.
What happens if you just tell a hoarder they are crazy? Do they just not believe it and think that many people are lying? I'm just curious, it's such a strange mental handicap to have, I feel bad for her.
Multiple things can happen. They can say they're not AS BAD as someone else. They can become a victim and overlook it and say you're making fun of them and their disease or just a complete denial. Just like people with any other addiction.
I'll allow that the mental illness is the inability to see the reality of the situation. Mostly seems like perpetual victimhood though. Once in a while they have someone with a disability that actually does impede them, but never to the extreme we see on here. It's either people suck, or it's all for show.
Sometimes they know they're ill but refuse to accept they're ill, or that next step just feels too hard. I had a family member who began hoarding after her son and husband died and she just couldn't let go of anything. I'm sure she knew it wasn't healthy, but if it were so simple to decide not to be mentally ill, nobody would be mentally ill.
The issue with helping hoarders in a non confrontational way, is you end up in 6 months in a worse spot. I’ve helped a couple in my day, and there are some cleaner ones and dirtier ones and they are all emotionally attached to their “collection” and need to change the habits and the fear thinking of not having enough or getting rid of things that shouldn’t be sentimental
Just imagine 2 things. 1. A group of people helping you, pulling, sweating, having visceral reactions to your house but willing to help you and you complain that they’re throwing away broken chairs and saying they’re betraying you And B. How much freaking money they’d have not buying this much garbage.
It's almost impossible to get the smell of rot out of a fridge. My house had a brown out when we were gone for a week and our fridge stopped working. You could smell it from the front door. It's absolutely awful.
My mum calls me a hoarder all the time because I own a lot of stuff (mostly art supplies and books), and I do start to get worried that I have a problem. But then I watch things like this and feel a bit better. Like yea, I own a lot of stuff, probably more than I necessarily need, but it's neat and organized and I can tell you everything I own and where it is.
I throw stuff away and I paint a lot that's creative we live in flith and than wonder why we get sick all the time it's not gonna be perfect. My stuff is neat orangized and I could also tell you where all my stuff is but I also get rid of stuff I don't use and I'm gonna put new tile down in my room but we are lazy humans most of the time
I'm so glad I found this channel reviewing this. I watch these sometimes and laugh at the craziness. Love your reactions to this I was laughing so loud I startled everyone.
This makes me so upset for so many reasons. These people have soooo much more patience then me. Like woman, this is going to kill you and your dogs. I would have such a hard time remembering how sick she has to be, just being completely honest 😭
You'll have a hard time remembering she's sick because as soon as a person hurts other people/animals, being mentally sick doesn't excuse those actions. You can have a hoarder's house, and never own pets. I have way more sympathy for those people. But people who hoards and own pets, they're selfish and heartless. They get a pet because it's another "item" for them to hoard. They don't get a pet to provide or take care of them properly.
That part of the clip when the lady started digging through the trash that the cleaners spent so long putting together just to keep half the stuff gives me flashbacks to my mom looking through my trash and saying I wasn't allowed to throw away most of those things. She'd say it's fine if I don't want them but she's keeping them, then hoards them in her room. But gradually she'll slowly move those things back into my room. That's one reason I hated going back home to our old house and moved out. My parents keep way too much stuff.
having adhd has made it really hard for me to keep my room mess-free but I've been binge-ing all the hoarder videos and it has been great motivation to NOT look like that.
Someone go get that egg and smack her with it. Whats the worst that could happen? She either wakes up and be like okay yeah or she passes out and they drag her outta the way 👍
Thank you, I just had a really bad headache I think it's a migraine maybe cause I feel so sick, Imma just chill today I think, hide in the dark lol binge watch some ToastyGames or something
Not only taking them out of town and cleaning while they are gone, but maybe have a garage sale so they even make money for the hoarders. Also, a lot of hoarders feel like they can't let go of items because it's admitting a loss. But they don't realize all that shit lowers their property value so much that the house isn't worth much of anything while hoarded. Cleaned up would make a lot of these houses worth significantly more.
As someone who has lived in a hoarders house before, YES THE TRASH COVERS THE SMELL! Its so discouraging when the smell of rot and mold hits your nose and you need to leave.
For a while I thought I had a hoarding problem. Until my crappy land lord sold the house and the house flipper was pressuring us to move. I was able to throw out everything I didn't need with ease. I'm not a hoarder I'm a packrat. The difference is my junk can be reused and if I haven't reused it after some time I toss it. Things are better now after the eviction. My dad and I are living with my oldest brother who really saved our asses in the end! XD
I feel so sorry for the camera crew and cleanup crew on this show. Biohazard suits aren’t enough for some of these houses let alone those masks and gloves. Burn it to the ground!
I’m a clothing hoarder and recently I cleared out my closet of majority of my clothes. I never got mad or yelled at anyone, just finished up cried when everyone was gone and brought it to the donation box in my area and send some with my aunt to a different country for the less fortunate. Granted the clothes were in good condition because I still took care of them, but I don’t get people getting so mad at the ones trying to help them.
We were just told about a family member who was living like this. She's lost her kids, animals, husband, home and got a 30 day stay in a mental hospital. House has still not been cleaned.
It'll take time, patience, and therapy to see results on the house. It took me years to improve, and I still have my moments. But things do get better, especially with a good support system.
Watching Hoarders was always the best motivators for me to clean my house. I've never been a hoarder and my house has never even gotten close to the levels of messiness and nastiness of houses like this, but their nasty house makes my house feel gross by association. 😂
Watching this while I clean my room and I sat down and got distracted for a bit towards the end, so the “and clean your room!” really got me 💀😂 thanks ken 😅
14:03 i love how he says “when i don’t know what it goes to i put it in a box. I just need to throw it out” BUT from experience ANY time you throw out that box you’ll need something in that box you just threw out
Hoarders emotionally identify themselves with their hoard. It is a part of them, it defines their self worth as a person. Sso when you come in and say this is garbage they hear it as "You are garbage". As the garbage starts being thrown away they are left with an overwhelming sense that they are losing part of themselves, a part of their worth. This leaves them feeling vulnerable and afraid which usually results in anger and lashing out to try and make it stop.
It never ceases to amaze me how these people literally don't have their homes catch fire. I am paranoid of my PC catching fire if my cat falls asleep on it, LET ALONE ANYTHING TOUCHING THE OUTLETS. I feel bad for the officers that have to fight with these people to get them to clean their homes.
Favourite part of these videos is when Ken is giving the intro and shoutouts, Dane is just looking into the camera and smouldering. I love him so much what a legend.
Sometimes you know immediately that there’s no hope. Anyone in the mindset that they could return that rotten food is not going to be having a breakthrough that day.
I deliver for fed ex and one of my towns I go to had a house like that. The city council decided it needed to be torn down and it was quickly done the next day
Regardless, these guys really need actual respirators, not just masks
I wouldn’t set food inside that place without a full pressurised mech
@@mathiaswilhelm1902 foot lol :P
@@mathiaswilhelm1902
Fallout style with Geiger counter and everything 😆
Even N95s don't block cat stink, I often wonder how much else gets through or is stank special
@@mathiaswilhelm1902Fallout reference ftw
i cant believe they don’t charge these people for how they treat their animals. I get that they have mental issues, but it’s one thing to give yourself a bad quality of life, and another thing to make an animal suffer. The pile of dog poop shows that she doesn’t even walk her pets, and neglects them.
A lot of people are charged for animal neglect and are not allowed to ever own animals again. It's just not a show or therapists place to do that
I've had some depressive episodes. Kinda in a funk right now. But my pets are taken care of. Always. I've fed them before I've fed myself.
What I don't understand is the ones who have dead pets and don't even notice. How in the hell do you become nose blind to the smell of death?! NOTHING covers up that scent. It's vomit inducing. I puked the first time I came across a body while hiking. It was a coyote. My sense of smell is crazy good (even though I'm a smoker and have brutal allergies). I legit cannot imagine my home reeking like that. 🤮 🤮 🤮
@@feraltaco4783I definitely agree. I pretty hate this world but my animals are the reason for why I don't exit from this evil world. I can't imagine ever neglecting any of my many animals.
@@Sukitbitch123same!
Sometimes they do. But it's also like... getting blood from a stone. If they can't really understand that what they are doing is abuse, then what does the punishment do?
There was an episode where this super sweet old guy was told his hoard was 1. Gonna get him evicted and 2. Was affecting his incredibly sick wife. So he let them come and he didn’t keep anything that they didn’t need, he goes, “don’t even show it to me, my wife is way more important than my stuff.” That is one of the few times i’ve seen someone on this show be so cooperative. His wife was very sick and all the stuff, which was mostly outside, was exacerbating her illness. He sat there holding her hand, just nodding his head and saying ok when they were showing him stuff.
i want to see this episode
Wholesome... one of the only hoarders on the show that isn't a raging narcissist and actually loves his family.
Pretty sure I bawled my eyes out watching that episode. Such a pure love he has for her.
I'm pretty sure if they took her out, removed all the trash and brought her back, she wouldn't be able to name a single thing they threw away...
Fridge
She would also fill the house top to bottom with trash again because none of those people are psychologists
@@Phoenix.SparklesThe girl with the heavy duty 3M respirator was the Psychologist.
"My favorite ashtray" is not a phrase I ever expected to hear.
To be fair it's "LIKE" her favorite ashtray.
I have a favorite vape battery I've become attached to. In my defence it's a very cute, albeit cheap, uniquely shaped one. I need uniquely shaped, because the stick variety and I hate each other.
I have a favorite ashtray, its large & made of crystal with a pinwheel design. Its just a cigar ashtray.
That being said I cant pretend Im attached to it lol
If I forget to clean my cat litter box one day, I feel like scum. This, wtf, kids and animals shouldn’t be in this. They are innocent and no choice who they get stuck with.
One of my cats is a walking war crime. The smells that come from him are so bad. 😂 I can't even deal when he uses the litter box. He's also stupid fluffy so the box needs to be clean to avoid mats and hanging poopie.
@@feraltaco4783my 2 smell like a nuclear fallout, the ammonia from the pee is killing my lungs but it needs to be done but it's worth it for my babys
My stress dreams are about forgetting to clean the litter box lol
@@SileneKitty this hsould make your stress worse....The Toxoplasma parasite does not become infectious until 1 to 5 days after it is shed in a cat's feces. Wash hands with soap and water after cleaning out a cat's litter box. Teach children the importance of washing hands to prevent infection.
My cat will walk around the house yowling and bugging me and my dad until the litter box gets cleaned
I hate the fact that she says she'll make time to fix her broken chair and other items, when she can't even take the time to pick up her dogs feces.
I know right!? She can’t take time to walk her dogs and clean up after them, but she’s gonna have time to fix the chair and return her rancid fridge like wtf??
Seriously.
She said she was going to clean and return the busted fridge, but if she didn’t immediately clean it when she found maggots in it because how disgusting that is, she was never going to get around to it. If maggots aren’t enough of a motivation, nothing will be.
When I was still living at home, I was starting to have a hoarding problem. It was starting to spread from my room out into the hallway. My mom didn't know what to do. She tried to help me before it got as bad as it was, but she realised it had gotten so bad that it was just too hard for me to tackle it. She decided to take things into her own hands, and when I was gone for a week camping with friends, she completely cleaned my room. It took her the entire week, and she got sick. She tried to salvage what she could and threw most things away. There were no feces or anything, but there was food and garbage, which is what made her sick, I think. I was upset at first because she threw things away, but I honestly couldn't even tell you what had been tossed because I didn't have access to most of it to begin with. Shes helped me handle things before they get out of hand and too overwhelming. I dont know what I would've done without her help, honestly.
Exactly, it's always going to be hard at first. Some deep breaths to slow down the racing anger though and being explained just that can help someone chill out more. I think the biggest help for hoarders is to clean the place out THEN focus on the mental health after. Absolutely work with them to try to keep the sentimental stuff that's actually of value and not like somebody's trash but if you keep slowing down to give them a chance to decide what they want to keep for everything like that fridge in this video? They're going to find excuses and keep going. Just a "nope it's going" gets it gone, we keep going, and if the person needs to have some space or leave then get it cleaned. Then help them learn healthy habits for keeping things clean, explain to them not how they're nuts but focus on why it's not healthy to live like that. Explain like you said most of the stuff they cover they haven't used in forever anyway because of all the stuff. Even help them lose the mindset that they might need this piece of trash or they think they need 1000 totes of stuff everywhere. And especially when animals are involved? Some cases they should absolutely have to take responsibility for that and get jail time. It's abuse to the animal and that's already illegal. I'm not saying forever but proportionate to the level of abuse. Then in jail also work to help rehabilitate them too to help form the better habits that'll make it easier to keep their home clean healthy and still be able to keep things that they do want and use. I think we assume we have to baby these hoarders too much when getting rid of stuff and it actually creates more problems.
I had a hoarding issue too, it really does line in with depression. Difference is, my parents just yelled at me and didn't actually help me. Neglect is real. I didn't get help till I met my now husband. He actually helped me clean, and gave me a good "mental scrub" if you will.
Mom of the year award.
The fact that you were okay with your mom cleaning your room without permission and didn’t go back to hoarding shows you really weren’t a hoarder. Disorganized, maybe. Messy, maybe. But not a hoarder.
@@toyamwarralmost always is depression driving the hoarding. Depression can be treated, along with the hoarding.
My mother was hoarder. I was told that before I was born, the family suffered a house fire and lost everything, which triggered my mother's hoarding. I was raised in a home full of junk. I had to climb over things like chainsaws (we lived in the country and used to cut our own firewood) just to get to my own bedroom. Even now, as a 40-something adult, I have the thought "I should save this" or "maybe I can fix it," so I have to work really hard not to become like this. I've used digital media (mostly video games) to help me curb these tendencies. Hoarding also goes hand in hand with other mental disorders (ADHD, Bipolar, etc.)
Organize inventory to cope.
@@1WEareBUFO1 you have no idea how close to reality this comment is. Back in the day, I used to play WoW. I hoarded the silliest things in that game. My storage might have been terribly cluttered with junk, but it helped me prevent hoarding junk in my actual house.
I find it interesting how people always say that watching Hoarders makes them feel better about their slightly messy homes. Watching this makes me SCARED. Makes me start throwing out everything in sight. I get terrified, like if I don’t straighten up I’ll end up like these people. I’ll start throwing everything in sight away to the point that I’m getting rid of actually useful stuff!
"Comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable"
Which season/ episode was this
That's how I feel, but my family has a history of hoarding. So scared I'll become this way if I become complacent.
I turned it on to work on cleaning the kitchen. Now im cleaning the dishwasher filter
Me to, I seek reassurance from my family that I’m not a horder x
Watching this while eating breakfast was not a smart decison. Didnt stop me much but it sure slowed me down.
That’s what I’m doing rn 🤝
I'm more listening than watching this episode
I was eating an omelet while hungover right around the first poop scene when the guy started gagging. Why do I do this to myself?
If there's a hoarder in the title more then likely it's a watch without food kinda thing
thank god it goesnt transfer smell
as someone who grew up in a hoarders home…just cleaning up “the mess” doesn’t solve anything. these people need psychiatric help.
the mess in their home reflects the mess in their mind
@@IceFire1800 yep.
They will be so angry when they get home to find it clean because it's an extension of themselves.
same, and they really latch onto ebery little thing, I have that issue too tbh, but not to this extend and am trying my best to keep it to one drawer of crap, still could be none but well, its a step.
Grew up in the same situation, I'm out of that place now but my parents are still hoarders... I've thought many times about trying to clean up their house. But I know without professional help it will just pile up again, and you can't make anyone get help they don't want.
You know you’ve watched too much “Hoarders” when this hoard seems tame compared to some of the episodes on the main version of the show. Why does this version of “Hoarders” not have the mental health experts and biohazard clean up crew? They seem so unprepared to actually help these people.
I’ll never forget the lady who had multiple houses
@@wumbology6072omg yeah I remember her too!!
@@wumbology6072 Or the poop lady. Or the one who found her dentures in the nastiness and popped em right back in without washing. Or the one who tried to pass off a dead rat as art… 😂
@@missfortune8553or that one lady that was super aggressive and keeping chickens 😢
The grossest ones are always the ones where animals are involved. The worse (most stuff) hoard was one I saw where this guy had a bunch of storage units fullllll. The lady with two houses (camping with her basically second husband) was bad too.
She's got a lot of the classic narcissistic trademarks The way she speaks as if she's always the victim no matter who's laying down their life to help her
I bet she had a headache because of all the toxic junk being disturbed and wafted into the air 😬 I grew up in a house like this and I frequently got upper respiratory infections
I once saw an episode of hoarders where a little dog literally curled up in its cage and died. The skeleton was perfectly preserved. It was the worst one I saw. The hoarder didn't care AT ALL - did not shed a tear and made excuses.
I remember that one. I sobbed like a little baby when i saw that. I hope he is eating all the beef sticks and peeing on all the hydrants somewhere out there.
@@jessicadrake4656 I know 😭 it was so sad. It's like he just gave up. Poor little guy.
I remember that. It was absolutely disturbing. That poor dog's body had to rot away and have flies and maggots pick it's bones clean...it must've smelled horrid!! I wonder how long it was in that cage before it passed..
I once saw an episode of Hoarders where a cat’s corpse was found under a couch. Apparently it sat there rotting for two full years.
Avoid Animal Planets Animal Hoarders by all means. That show was infuriating.
As someone with chickens, a rotten egg is one smell that is very very POTENT 🤮
Amen, had an aunt accidentally put an unfertilized egg in with the chicken hatcher. she had it explode in her face and even though I wasnt even in the same room I had to run and throw up. R.I.P aunts nose (and possibly sanity)
I'm just wondering how on Earth the egg stayed hidden under there without being shattered for so long
Cleaned someone's garage for extra cash as a kid and there was appeared to be an egg broken on the ground. Terrible smell, 20 years later I can still smell it. Still love eggs though
Omg yes. Two duck eggs exploded and the smell was something else! Then my dog came out and rubbed in it, I was like no!
I was in like 3rd grade and someone threw one. I feel like I can still smell it to this day.
I can’t even afford a house and this lady literally defiles hers to the point it’s unlivable. I feel so bad for all the animals that got stuck with her. She doesn’t deserve them-she needs help and should be in assisted living. I know that’s harsh-but it’s for her own safety and everyone else’s.
Homeless people take care of their belongings better than this.
It’s seriously fucked up that someone can own a house and defile it to the point of it essentially just needing to be knocked down when there are so many people without a place to live that would be so grateful to a have a roof over their heads they’d probably clean that place spotless just to have the opportunity to live in it.
Mental illness is no joke, they get stuck, don't know where to begin and it keeps piling up. Not all of them are attached to it all it gets very overwhelming.
It’s an illness not a chosen lifestyle. That being said she’ll need therapy forever to prevent this from happening again.
@@thethe4665and that will never happen
@@thethe4665obviously the illness is not her choice, but I can’t imagine putting innocent animals through that… I’m not the cleanest person and I do skimp on cleaning at times, but I care WAY more about my pets than myself. I always try to make sure my pets stuff and areas they are in are clean and safe. I’m mentally ill as well and have family members who are hoarders. Even the hoarders I know make sure to keep the hoarded piles concentrated and not dirty. They care about their pets too much to let things go to this extent.
To be fair, when you got bodily excretion like that, you are supposed to call in a biohazard team that’s actually certified to deal with it because they’ve been trained specifically what to do to keep everyone safe while cleaning it up. I work in an old hospital, and one of the 4th floor bathrooms had the pipes back up and literally explode. Sewer everywhere, floor to ceiling. We literally just went NOPE and closed that bathroom completely until the biohazard team we have could come and decontaminate it.
I can’t even imagine the smell when it happened let alone having it sit there in isolation till a team came to deal with it
Another example of why they should reopen the mental hospitals. People like that need to live in a home. If they can’t take care of themselves basically then someone has to.
I agree that some should be reopened, but its difficult to regulate the care provided for hoarders. Some can and have gotten better (like my grandmother), but i agree that some may need assisted living
@@the_snaz the ones set in their ways and refuse help probably need managed living w a carer, there's definitely rehabilitation for some people though
some people just spiral and realize they're stuck, but can't get out of their mess
people like the chick in this video definitely need to be forced to live in assisted living if not a flat out carehome, they're a threat to the environment and others in the area (one spark in that house would send the entire neighborhood in flames, this isn't even accounting for the blatant animal neglect)
The mental hospitals are open. Unless you mean asylums in which case no we shouldn't reopen those we should create some new sort of system. Assisted living is also already a thing that exists jsdoif I am assuming you live in america though
@@technoschnauzer4327 yup in America. And in a lot of the states here they closed all those types of things. I agree 10000% there needs to be a new system. The old one was full of people who abused those that needed the help. But there most definitely is a need for a proper place
The people that are cleaning are volunteers they don’t get paid they just want to help the community and get her some help. They need a specialized team to deal with the biohazards appropriately or many of the volunteers can get sick and bring it back home with them to their families. Dealing with the psyche of a hoarder is the biggest struggle, they blame others and can’t take responsibility for how they got there in the first place. Most of the time after these shows they offer them aftercare which comes with the very much needed therapy in hopes it doesn’t happen again. Sad shit
I'm currently living with my mom who hoards. You can't just simply convince them that they need to get rid of things. Their stuff is much more important. It's a mental illness issue and it's worse when they don't want to seek help.
I hope your mom gets the help she needs and accepts it, it can be so hard to get help for people, but you're right its a lot harder when they aren't seeking or accepting help. I wish you all the best in the future.
My mom's a hoarder and it's transferred to me. It's so hard because you see value in literally every little thing..I used to keep Snapple bottles and say "just in case I need them" I'm slowly getting better after watching this show. It was an eye opener for sure
@@elitings9965 Yeah it takes awareness and diligence to challenge yourself to stop yourself from being overwhelmed by hoarding tendencies, i'm not a hoarder but i have hoarding tendencies, i also have several glass bottles because i liked the shape or the drink, and they make me happy. It's a comfort thing, they could be useful or they make me happy to see them. You got to keep on top of it, if you haven't found a use give them away or recycle if throwing away is too difficult. i get waste shame which is another reason it can be hard to throw away something, but i always make sure any food waste is always disposed or composted. Best of luck to you in your life.
I too live with my mom and finally got her to realize she’s a hoarder recently. She was sick and away for a week, and I took that time to pitch A LOT of junk but still a long ways to go. Cleared 3 rooms, the living room, her room and my room. but the rest of the house is still cluttered. Surprisingly and thankfully she wasn’t upset, she was thrilled and saw how good it looked and it got her willingly pitch more things alongside me. After 15 years. Better late than never. 🥹
@@elitings9965 I'm so glad you're getting help and that you're aware of your problem. It's easy to fall into hoarding and hoarding behavior especially in our consumer society when we're told to put our self worth and to find comfort in worldly items. I hope you continue to getting better and that your mom can too.
In cases like we see in the video this lady must have more going on than just hoarding. She literally is living in a house full of decay and waste and filth and doesn't see anything wrong with it. She's surrounding her self with a biohazard, healthy humans don't do that. We can live in clutter and keep things that aren't important but we tend to draw the line at literal shit.
The thing about hoarders is that to them you aren't just throwing out a broken chair. Your throwing out a potentially perfectly functional chair. Everything they own has potential and they're scared they're either going to need it or regret giving it away. It's fear that makes them lash out
I work for geek squad and I tend to hoard everything the client tries to throw away. If one of the items tends to be useful then it justifies me not throwing away obsolete cables away. My van is a mess and I have nowhere to put things.
It's like throwing away their dog to them even if it's only a piece of trash.
To damn bad🤷♀️
@@theropesofrenovation9352 Speaking of dogs she clearly neglects hers.
@Placker8102 you could say you're geekin'
Hoarding is actually a subclassification of OCD. Hoarders get upset in the same way people with OCD do when you interrupt one of their rituals
Not anymore. The newest edition of the DSM5 has a separate diagnosis of hoarding disorder that is separate from ocd. It's not considered a type of ocd anymore.
@@swimfast724 I heard about this, but I think the DSM5 changed a lot of things it shouldn’t have. I still believe hoarding to be a type of OCD, or at least very closely related to it
Alot of hoarding is about control. It's all worth money, or has emotional value, is still good or useful. And then it falls to neglect. You can't clean when you have so much stuff. Shame keeps you twisted up in it. Having others in your space trying to clean is embarrassing and shameful, on top of they're getting rid of your stuff.
Coming from a hoarder myself. I consider myself a 'clean' hoarder as I've never gotten to the point of collecting garbage. I like textiles, stuffed animals, books, and have never kept garbage or disgusting things. My space has never degraded like this, but I have the compulsion to buy or collect things I view as valuable or useful. I've been in therapy pretty much my entire life to fight my compulsion.
It is incredibly difficult to break the mental loops. You get so overwhelmed that you can't even clean because where do you even start? If you want to keep something where do you put it.
Hoarders on this show are so lost in their delusions that it's wild to see.
@@khazz33I mean this so respectfully but the people making the DSM5 probably know better than you in deciding what’s what
@@lydiamv21 you’re right, but I do have OCD and have been around a lot of people with different kinds of it as well
Her talking abouthow she will just clean it herself is hilarious, also the part where she wanted to try and return a broken fridge thats been possibly sitting there for who knows how long and is infested with bugs is something else.
I can't wrap my head around knowing people are coming to her house to clean and she just left that mountain of doo there for all these people to see and clean. I would die of embarrassment.
Women smh am I right
i have an aunt who did exactly this. she had a small dog and my dad and uncle showed up to help her move and she had done nothing to prepare. newspaper and old mail all over the floor so the dog could go to the bathroom, the dishwasher and sink were full of dirty dishes, could barely move around the place. my uncle got mad and yelled at her because she was ordering them around and not helping so she went and hid in a closet and cried.
The people who live in places like this are very ill. Hoarding is a mental illness and sometimes it just becomes too much for someone to handle, and the mess becomes overwhelming.
@fjotrathegodless even so, I've watched other hoarders eps. Yes, they were upset their stuff are gone but they stil very much polite about it. This woman just plain rude, demanding and entitled
Same. Even if I have a few dishes in the sink, I’d apologize 100 times if people saw it
Please more hoarders - it’s genuinely giving me a reason to clear my place out
wishing the best for you bro
Bro, if you need a “reason”, be careful because you might feature in the next episode of hoarders 😂😂😂 what an honour it would be for ken and buff to react to it though 😂😂😂
For real, I helped my parents move in a not as bad, but eerily similar, situation and I had a panic attack after I finished helping them.
I have hoarding tendencies of my own and I have never wanted to throw so much shit out of my own house then seeing how bad it can get and how horrific it was to deal with
She needs intensive therapy before/during/after the actual cleaning-process. Just like with any addiction, she will most likely relapse.
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Of all the shitty comments this is one of the few I fully agree with
My mother grew up in a hoarders house because of my grandfather, and she is now an extremely clean person. The stories she told us about her childhood...I can't even imagine
Some of the hoarders were actually clean when they were younger, but trauma triggers these behaviors. This is mental illness.
Same, in a way. My mom isn’t a hoarder but she….tends to keep way too many things, even things that don’t fit her or that she has absolutely no use for. So my childhood home was always very dirty and messy, to the point where I refused to have any friends over. Imagine things piling up on countertops and every single other surface. She’d even look through my stuff that I intended to donate, and she would keep pretty much all of it. Also the WHOLE house smelled of tobacco. It was laying around EVERYWHERE, I even had to get hospitalized & have my stomach pumped as a toddler bc I swallowed some that was just laying on the floor. (Not moms fault though but you get what I mean)
Now as an adult I’m very minimalistic, I hate owning a lot of unnecessary things and dirty/messy surfaces make me feel uncomfortable. I do believe that this is the case with many people who grew up in that kind of environment.
I grew up with my dad being a hoarder. Now, I just through shit away even if I think I might need it because I’m so terrified of becoming this
Same
Nothing like an episode of Hoarders to make me feel better about my clutter
for sure, I feel bad for not folding my laundry once its done, but I would never ever have anything like that
This makes me want to clean my own place, even though it's already fairly clean
Tbh watching hoarders made me a minimalist! Every 10 episodes or so I start a donation pile 😂
@@pancakesatthedisco8088same! Or I’ll have a cleaning video going on in the background to help motivate me to clean 🧼.
Definitely gets me up and cleaning!
This gave me more motivation to finish cleaning and downsizing the junk and other unnecessary things I have in my room.
iruma icon haver ur so cool
Fr. I always have hoarders in the background when cleaning my closet, room
Me too! Thankfully I'm not this bad. Also, I guess I can toss the box of AV cables I've been hoarding for 30+ years!
Trust me even ghosts will never haunt this house
God that would be awful. Having to be a ghost haunting this house. I don't wish that on anyone.
What if it’s the ghost of a hoarder? Ghost hoard 👻
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Ghost: "Aw hell naw"
Feel really sick after watching this. Eating my lunch while watching this wasn't a good idea at all!!
This is unchecked greed, laziness, selfishness and filth. There’s a difference between getting too attached to things, and not cleaning up feces. The ingratitude is also baffling. This woman does not deserve help
6:31 dude took one look at the upstairs and LITERALLY said “nope!”🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
The messed up part is they can't burn it down because of the chemicals that would be released into the air would be toxic. So they literally have to approach it this way and clean it
The hoarders usually are angry or mean because they're anxious and upset about their items being taken. Theres also an element of shame for some of these people. Hoarding is based in OCD and is an anxiety based disorder and behavior. Sometimes, anxiety can come out as anger. Especially, when the person is trying to maintain control over their items/themselves. Its very sad. It definitely is best if that person isn't present for this type of cleaning out.
It was actually found out recently that it has almost nothing to with ocd and is more related to attachment disorder but is honestly its own thing. Brain scans are off the charts when they just think of getting rid of one of their possessions. It's almost like they're being abandoned or throwing away a friend. Still definitely a mental disorder and very serious
They need to be there when they remove those items though. They can react in a much worse way when you clean out the house when they're not there.
Exactly. I just saw a comment here that said they’d love for these people to be locked in a box and forced to watch people clean out their house. They talked about how amazingly entertaining it would be to watch them freak out. Obviously their house is disgusting and something needs to happen but the complete lack of empathy for someone suffering is crazy to me.
I’d pay to watch a series where they put these people in a box and completely clear out their house. I know it’s not helpful in the slightest but by god would it be satisfying
Lol. That would be so fun to watch!
For most of them it's extremely traumatizing and makes them hoard 1000x harder to rebuild the hoard they've lost. It's unfortunate because a lot of us feels like doing it that way would have been better. Especially when they've gotten so sick that they can't understand sanitization or health and safety anymore.
@@Koselill oh I know it would be counter productive, but some of them are so nasty and awful people, it would therapeutic to watch them freak out.
I’d pay money to cuss her ass out and tell her about herself. She really needs a truth bomb dropped on her. She really needs her feelings hurt
@@Koselill Do it anyway. If not a box, put them in therapy while the cleaning's happening.
My inlaws are maybe only a few steps below this. My wife struggles but doesn't want to end up like this. She grew up learning that all this trash is an extension of herself. Throwing it away is losing a part of yourself. Like literally chopping a limb. It has taken a decade of work for her to break free of that feeling. Even with such progress any big cleaning (spring cleaning, etc) will give her anxiety and make her panic. This isn't built in. This is a learned sickness.
She getting a headache?! Probably from the 1% of fresh oxygen...she used to 100% poop air!
You know, I wanted to do a job like this. Helping people clean their homes and help them get a fresh start, but having to deal with two horders in my life, I learned I do not have the patience to deal with these kind of people. Whether it’s mental or not, I do not have the mental capacity tolerate the berating from someone who would rather drown in their stuff than have walking space or keep their homes.
I can confirm that dogs will pick a spot to poop regularly and stay in that area for the most part. My mom's house got like this a couple times. My sister flew across the country to help me and my brother tackle it in May and she's finally keeping up on it.
Amazing children! 👏🏿 thank you for having mercy and patience with your mother, I wish her all the best! And you guys too!🎉🎉
The AMOUNT of emotional, physical & mental strength it TAKES to clean up hoards like that has to be incredible... I could never! 🙃 That whole house is just a big OSHA & HOA violation. Demolish that hell hole!!!
OSHA?
@@rinoz47probably "Occupational Safety and Health Administration" in the US, though I don't know if this would necessarily be their domain. I'm not from the US though, I just googled it.
@@rhyleymaster As a normal dwelling OSHA wouldn't apply but the second the cleaning crew stepped in, OSHA applied. It's why they said they couldn't clean up the upstairs because they didn't have the right gear. The right gear to clean biohazard materials is required by OSHA standards. You cannot make someone clean up biohazard stuff without giving them proper training, certification and the proper safety gear to do it.
Set it on FIRE! 🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@starlingswallow Yes and ignore the mental aspect and making it worse, creating a new house horded in
I just realized that data hoarders are quite literally the opposite of regular hoarders. Highly maintained computer equipment, meticulously organized file systems and databases, etc.
Some of these hoarders need to be institutionalized. I have a hoarder in my family. We've all tried to help her over the years but she was just as insufferable as this woman. Luckily she never had animals. But I've lost contact with her over the last 10 years. Once her son, my cousin, was grown and out of the house we kinda just left her alone. It's so hard to help someone that's fighting you the whole way
True!! Its not fair to the rest of society to have to deal with this neglect and carelessness. If youre this mentally ill you need professional HELP
So, I know I have too many things and projects myself, so on the one hand, I get it. When I watch one of these shows and think about it like a mental illness, I feel like I can understand a sense of empathy for these people. Or, when I read through the yt comments about people suffering from this illness, I feel like I can grasp some of the emotions that they're talking about. I get it. I like my stuff, too. I don't want to just randomly throw away any of my projects, either.
But on the other hand, I have people in my own family who are hoarders, and when I'm confronted with their mess, all my sympathy just seems to fly out the window. I think it's because I know very well what these particular individuals are like aside from the illness, and... it's all part and parcel with it, I guess. It's just so hard for me to understand why they can't take any accountability for their own actions.
Like, I know I'm not exactly a minimalist, but I don't think anyone in their right mind would call my house a hoarder house. It's cluttered, sure, but I manage to keep it all pretty clean. Like, clean enough to have people over on a regular basis. Big empty floor spaces. 'Lived in', but fairly normal looking. My coldness on this point seems to be reserved mostly for my own family members, but I just feel like if I'm able to keep my house neat looking with all the shit that I have, they should be able to do it, too. We're from the same background, after all. I guess it just annoys me because I feel like I always had to be the responsible one. So, yes, because of that, I responsibly keep my own house and my things fairly clean. And I'm annoyed that they aren't responsible, and never were, and that they just expect that someone else is going to do everything for them. Well, it ain't going to be me.
i feel so bad for these people bc they're mentally ill but like damn just throw everything away regardless of what they tell u they wanna keep
I sure af don't feel bad for them ☠️
😂 man make a landfill
I feel the same way, but it could trigger them to hoard even worse. Or a full blown meltdown. But yeah, get rid of it and start from zero.
I earnestly believe that they aren’t as aggressive as they should be in these scenarios, especially when animals are involved. This needs to be done when they aren’t home so that anything that is trash, broken, or hazardous is gone, and they don’t have the chance to argue about why they should be allowed to keep it because they won’t even know it was there to begin with. Anything salvageable needs to be taken out of the house and put somewhere like a front lawn where they have to go through it before it can go back inside. They need to be given a limit on what they can keep based on the space that they have.
@@IrishHndGrenade they need to do it while they’re not home to get rid of anything that cannot be saved and then bring them back to only go through what’s left. Then they still have that level of control, but they don’t have the option to sit and tell you why they need rotten lettuce and a broken lamp, and more than likely, they won’t remember owning those items anyway.
She’s lucky they’re trying to help her rather than send her away to a mental health institution
@@mr22288 i can’t bring myself to see it as mean, honestly. Some people just aren’t capable of taking care of themselves because their mental illness has taken over, and I hope I’m not coming across as hateful. I see it as a fact that just because someone is an adult and appears “normal” that it doesn’t mean they’re capable of taking care of themselves. I feel like it’s more cruel to allow someone to live like this and let them continue on with that kind of life. A facility with rules and employees who can provide proper care would be perfect for people like this who need stability to keep them from causing harm 🥲
@@PorcelainProblems You're not being mean or hateful. Neither of you are. In extreme situations like this, intervention is necessary. However, it's a process that takes time and hard work. And unfortunately, the people that produce these shows only care about the drama they're stirring up for the ratings. It sucks.
the city could easily condemn the house.
@Wicker_ Asylums were terribly cruel institutions that threw people with disorders and illnesses of all kinds together indiscriminately. They were more like jails for the ones people didnt want to deal with, not hospitals for treatment. Mental hospitals now are just what they are hospitals. There are good ones and bad ones, but the goal is treatment for conditions patients can't deal with on their own.
It's all the more sadder when a cleaning team does manage to completely empty the house of a hoard, and then see how too far gone it is because of the years of the extreme hoard having been built up, thus ruining the foundation, the walls, the floors, etc, ultimately rendering the house unlivable.
That fridge was 100 bucks, now its 100 safety violations.
My cousin is a hoarder, but we keep him in check by throwing out his crap when he's at work. He never notices it. Lolz
Whenever I'm feeling lazy, I watch one of these videos and instantly get the urge to clean my whole house
I am a low level hoarder. If someone is this far gone the best thing that could be done is to put them in a residential or intensive therapy program living somewhere else and get them medicated and treated. And have things that are hazardous removed while they are not there.
Ugh, they dance around her feelings a lot. Somebody needs to step up and tell her she's not well, can't be part of the clean up and do no let her check the pods. Slap her.
TAZE HER 🤣
Especially if she's just gonna make everyone feel like shit
It's because taking away that control over their things would most likely push her to hoard more.
yeah she needs a firm no, not just this therapist saying "oh well, what about this" she needs someone to deem her unfit to live alone. she's just going to keep living in filth if left to her own devices. it's not just a matter of not cleaning or throwing things away, it's literally a mental illness. healthy people won't live like this. she could not comprehend why people were reacting to her house the way that they were.
@@cniknik9863then she needs to be institutionalized. Clearly the soft touch isnt working for her
This is why I hate reusable shopping bags. Somebody's gonna bring one from a house like this and set it right on the conveyor belt with all your stuff. Soaked and cat pee and God knows what else. And then they expect the cashier to touch it. 🤢🤮
omg ur so right
It should be illegal to have a messy house to this extent and they should be charged with abuse and neglect if there is any living being in there.
I remember another show about hoarding, where they actually helped the people's mental problems. And it can be a multitude of reasons why they get angry about throwing things away. Could be past abandonment/fear of loss, or having lost everything in a fire, flood, etc at one point. And things get out of control, usually due to poor mental health.
Why we can view it as 'just throw it away' is because we have a different healthier mindset towards it. But for some people in these situations throwing it away feels like life or death even tho it isnt. Sometimes it can be laziness caused by bad mental health too. There is just too many, many, many reasons to why things get bad, and once its bad it gets slowly harder and more overwhelming for someone with poor mental health to fix. And of course its easier to judge them and say 'just do this' but much harder in their shoes. I hope she got help to fix her situation but some people are almost beyond that point.
Finally a reasonable comment in between all these superficial standard judgy ones. Bless you!
Brilliant comment.
There was- the original Hoarders show. And on the original there were at least 2 they could not save the homes/properties. They started the Buried Alive ones years after the original.
One of my friends was legally tricked into cleaning out a house like that. She was hospitalized after cleaning began due to illnesses she "unearthed". She found a kitten skeleton under a couch & was literally using a snow shovel to scoop out garbage!
A kitten skeleton :'[
Tricked how?
@@amiiiuI wish to know too.
I hope she is doing well
I'd just take the lawsuit, in the US, you can't force people to do illegal things, like clean biohazards without proper gear, the contract would be void.
You couldnt pay me enough to do this. Not to mention you will be replacing the poop with puke. Nothing would ever get cleaned. This one of those jobs ai robots can have anyday.
Yeah I would be puking if I did anything like this no amount of payment is worth it.
I was thinking the same thing. A perfect job for a robot that can be sterilized after the clean up. Burning down house would be easier
Cleaning out the dreadful back corner of my garage was like Christmas finding tools LOL. Definitely need organizers and holders for easy access. Now it looks like a fully stocked hardware store for the handyman.
I have the hoarding gene in my family which scares me a lot. I collect things like crazy (TMNT figures, other figures and their boxes, pokemon cards, pop can tabs, monster cans, i used to collect band aids (ive stopped)) and i every time i watch a video like this i get rid of one collection and clean the shit out of my room. Hoarding is scary.
What happens if you just tell a hoarder they are crazy? Do they just not believe it and think that many people are lying? I'm just curious, it's such a strange mental handicap to have, I feel bad for her.
Multiple things can happen. They can say they're not AS BAD as someone else. They can become a victim and overlook it and say you're making fun of them and their disease or just a complete denial. Just like people with any other addiction.
I mean she straight up said it was ridiculous they were wearing masks and ppe 😭
I'll allow that the mental illness is the inability to see the reality of the situation. Mostly seems like perpetual victimhood though.
Once in a while they have someone with a disability that actually does impede them, but never to the extreme we see on here.
It's either people suck, or it's all for show.
Sometimes they know they're ill but refuse to accept they're ill, or that next step just feels too hard. I had a family member who began hoarding after her son and husband died and she just couldn't let go of anything. I'm sure she knew it wasn't healthy, but if it were so simple to decide not to be mentally ill, nobody would be mentally ill.
You would need to talk with someone about why that’s not an appropriate way to address a vulnerable person.
Anytime I feel my home is messy, I watch Hoarders to remember its not that bad.
Same haha or when I need the motivation to do a purge/deep clean.
@@mariehughes5932 a woman of culture I see
If the hoarders themselves would watch an episode they would all say ''oh my house isn't that bad, my poop pile is way smaller''
The issue with helping hoarders in a non confrontational way, is you end up in 6 months in a worse spot. I’ve helped a couple in my day, and there are some cleaner ones and dirtier ones and they are all emotionally attached to their “collection” and need to change the habits and the fear thinking of not having enough or getting rid of things that shouldn’t be sentimental
Just imagine 2 things.
1. A group of people helping you, pulling, sweating, having visceral reactions to your house but willing to help you and you complain that they’re throwing away broken chairs and saying they’re betraying you
And B. How much freaking money they’d have not buying this much garbage.
It's almost impossible to get the smell of rot out of a fridge. My house had a brown out when we were gone for a week and our fridge stopped working. You could smell it from the front door. It's absolutely awful.
As the granddaughter of a hoarder who lived with me for 17 years of my life… and you JUMP SCARE me with a cluttered basement 😅 I love you both
My mum calls me a hoarder all the time because I own a lot of stuff (mostly art supplies and books), and I do start to get worried that I have a problem. But then I watch things like this and feel a bit better. Like yea, I own a lot of stuff, probably more than I necessarily need, but it's neat and organized and I can tell you everything I own and where it is.
Just because it's neat does not mean you're not a hoarder
@@kreskin0079 I never said I wasn't, just said it's not as bad as it could be.
I throw stuff away and I paint a lot that's creative we live in flith and than wonder why we get sick all the time it's not gonna be perfect. My stuff is neat orangized and I could also tell you where all my stuff is but I also get rid of stuff I don't use and I'm gonna put new tile down in my room but we are lazy humans most of the time
Crafts and hobbies need lots of supplies so no not what i call hoarding 😉😀@robinz99
Oh man, oh man I’m angry at people like this just throw it away.
I'm so glad I found this channel reviewing this. I watch these sometimes and laugh at the craziness. Love your reactions to this I was laughing so loud I startled everyone.
Beware of dog? I feel it's more like a beware of biohazardous hoarding.
This makes me so upset for so many reasons. These people have soooo much more patience then me. Like woman, this is going to kill you and your dogs. I would have such a hard time remembering how sick she has to be, just being completely honest 😭
You'll have a hard time remembering she's sick because as soon as a person hurts other people/animals, being mentally sick doesn't excuse those actions. You can have a hoarder's house, and never own pets. I have way more sympathy for those people. But people who hoards and own pets, they're selfish and heartless. They get a pet because it's another "item" for them to hoard. They don't get a pet to provide or take care of them properly.
Anyone else expected it to be her poop ? Just me?
After Shanna (another Hoarders guest), nothing surprises me on this show. 😂
@@goatbabe0666 honestly thats what i was thinking of 😅😅
Had to open a bottle of prosecco to get through this
How did you already watch it? 💀
I'm off work today. I was about to have lunch but, it's over now 🤢
@@MrIBeSonic I just finished. One minute in and I was already running for the fridge
I feel. I had to crack open a couple of beers.
Count yourself lucky. I had to open a bottle of bleach to get through this 🤢
I SAID THE SAME THING. she's complaining they can't do it but she can't do it either!!
That part of the clip when the lady started digging through the trash that the cleaners spent so long putting together just to keep half the stuff gives me flashbacks to my mom looking through my trash and saying I wasn't allowed to throw away most of those things. She'd say it's fine if I don't want them but she's keeping them, then hoards them in her room. But gradually she'll slowly move those things back into my room. That's one reason I hated going back home to our old house and moved out. My parents keep way too much stuff.
having adhd has made it really hard for me to keep my room mess-free but I've been binge-ing all the hoarder videos and it has been great motivation to NOT look like that.
Someone go get that egg and smack her with it. Whats the worst that could happen? She either wakes up and be like okay yeah or she passes out and they drag her outta the way 👍
Seeing you upload always makes my day, feeling sick as hell and you and Buff are the best medicine
Thank you, I just had a really bad headache I think it's a migraine maybe cause I feel so sick, Imma just chill today I think, hide in the dark lol binge watch some ToastyGames or something
same
I hope you feel better soon :)@@uwusussywindex
@@fifarley4899 thank u
Not only taking them out of town and cleaning while they are gone, but maybe have a garage sale so they even make money for the hoarders. Also, a lot of hoarders feel like they can't let go of items because it's admitting a loss. But they don't realize all that shit lowers their property value so much that the house isn't worth much of anything while hoarded. Cleaned up would make a lot of these houses worth significantly more.
Thank you to those people and mental health professionals that have the patience to help people with this disorder. Just wow...
When she wentinto the dumpster, they should have locked her in until they cleaned out the house.
Most people like that are dumpster divers.
WOOOOO I been waiting for the "if today's your birthday, happy birthday" to apply and it finally does! Thanks Ken!
Aw, happy birthday to you!🎂🥳
🥳 🎉
Constable Peever is looking to close out some missing persons cold cases. 🤣
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*Forensic Files theme music starts*
As someone who has lived in a hoarders house before, YES THE TRASH COVERS THE SMELL! Its so discouraging when the smell of rot and mold hits your nose and you need to leave.
For a while I thought I had a hoarding problem. Until my crappy land lord sold the house and the house flipper was pressuring us to move. I was able to throw out everything I didn't need with ease. I'm not a hoarder I'm a packrat. The difference is my junk can be reused and if I haven't reused it after some time I toss it. Things are better now after the eviction. My dad and I are living with my oldest brother who really saved our asses in the end! XD
Been waiting all year for Ken to say Happy Birthday on my actual Birthday! 😊🎉 Thanks Ken!!!! You two add so much humor to my daily routine!
I just got done washing and putting away all my dishes that had been sitting for 2 weeks. Good motivation 💪
I feel so sorry for the camera crew and cleanup crew on this show. Biohazard suits aren’t enough for some of these houses let alone those masks and gloves. Burn it to the ground!
I’m a clothing hoarder and recently I cleared out my closet of majority of my clothes. I never got mad or yelled at anyone, just finished up cried when everyone was gone and brought it to the donation box in my area and send some with my aunt to a different country for the less fortunate. Granted the clothes were in good condition because I still took care of them, but I don’t get people getting so mad at the ones trying to help them.
Because they're too far gone.
We were just told about a family member who was living like this. She's lost her kids, animals, husband, home and got a 30 day stay in a mental hospital. House has still not been cleaned.
It'll take time, patience, and therapy to see results on the house. It took me years to improve, and I still have my moments. But things do get better, especially with a good support system.
This show always makes me have a desperate need to spring clean my entire house
Watching Hoarders was always the best motivators for me to clean my house. I've never been a hoarder and my house has never even gotten close to the levels of messiness and nastiness of houses like this, but their nasty house makes my house feel gross by association. 😂
Watching this while I clean my room and I sat down and got distracted for a bit towards the end, so the “and clean your room!” really got me 💀😂 thanks ken 😅
14:03 i love how he says “when i don’t know what it goes to i put it in a box. I just need to throw it out” BUT from experience ANY time you throw out that box you’ll need something in that box you just threw out
Hoarders emotionally identify themselves with their hoard. It is a part of them, it defines their self worth as a person. Sso when you come in and say this is garbage they hear it as "You are garbage". As the garbage starts being thrown away they are left with an overwhelming sense that they are losing part of themselves, a part of their worth. This leaves them feeling vulnerable and afraid which usually results in anger and lashing out to try and make it stop.
It never ceases to amaze me how these people literally don't have their homes catch fire. I am paranoid of my PC catching fire if my cat falls asleep on it, LET ALONE ANYTHING TOUCHING THE OUTLETS. I feel bad for the officers that have to fight with these people to get them to clean their homes.
I've watched a few episodes were there were fires due to the hoard
Favourite part of these videos is when Ken is giving the intro and shoutouts, Dane is just looking into the camera and smouldering. I love him so much what a legend.
I do still have a working VCR and av cables lol. We put it in my toddlers room cause I still have a ton of disney vhs tapes
Sometimes you know immediately that there’s no hope. Anyone in the mindset that they could return that rotten food is not going to be having a breakthrough that day.
I deliver for fed ex and one of my towns I go to had a house like that. The city council decided it needed to be torn down and it was quickly done the next day