Hoarders

[sexysadie]

thanks but what about ''nitty gritty''?? Canada is tooooooo big!!

Canada is perfect.

 

[pjbleek]

I'll buy some...lol

and straws..must have straws!!!

 

[itsmeJonB]

Does anyone watch this show? I just dont get it, I mean hoarding is one thing but why do all these people have such junk as in garbage too?

because its a disease


do you ask people with OCD why they do their ticks?

 

[mazHur]

Canada is perfect.

but not without YOU!!

 

[AUDRAA]

because its a disease


do you ask people with OCD why they do their ticks?

no
Dexx dont irritate me

 

[sexysadie]

and straws..must have straws!!!

geeze you're fussy...lol..ok, ok straws too.:jk

 

[JanieDough]

I think it's a disease like Dex said - there's no rationality to it.

My mother is on her way to being a hoarder...I could give specific examples of things that would gross yall out, but I don't want to go there.

Just know that it's a gradual thing, and after a while their tolerance for filth increases.

 

[darkangel]

I watch it and have since it first started showing on TV. The episode that really got me was the old lady who couldn't use her bathroom anymore cuz it was so filled with depends so she put a potty chair in her kitchen and tied herself to it at night so that she wouldn't fall off of it.

Well turns out she fell off the chair into a pile of dirty diapers and couldn't get up. The next day they found her and she was put in an old age home cuz her grown child didn't want to deal with her anymore.

It is a disease a psychological one...

 

[Abcinthia]

Hoarding is actually a form of OCD though not many people realise it because they incorrectly think that OCD involves cleaning and doesn't manifest in other ways.

Hoarding has the compulsion of needing to save everything (including rubbish) because the person is normally worrying (obsessively) that they might need it one day.


EDIT: I'd love to watch this show, it does sound good. I read about an OCD sufferer who had the cleaning compulsion who was married to a woman who had OCD with hoarding compulsions. It was very distressing for them both although the therapy somewhat worked for them both so they could lead a normal life and marriage.

It was a nice ending considering the next patient the author (who was a pyschiatrist - the book was about patients with various mental illnesses) wrote about a man with a gambling addict who shot himself after the therapy failed

 

[Kyle B]

Hoarding is actually a form of OCD though not many people realise it because they incorrectly think that OCD involves cleaning and doesn't manifest in other ways.

Hoarding has the compulsion of needing to save everything (including rubbish) because the person is normally worrying (obsessively) that they might need it one day.


EDIT: I'd love to watch this show, it does sound good. I read about an OCD sufferer who had the cleaning compulsion who was married to a woman who had OCD with hoarding compulsions. It was very distressing for them both although the therapy somewhat worked for them both so they could lead a normal life and marriage.

It was a nice ending considering the next patient the author (who was a pyschiatrist - the book was about patients with various mental illnesses) wrote about a man with a gambling addict who shot himself after the therapy failed

I've noticed that a lot of the people on "hoarders" are older. If hoarding is a form of OCD, I wonder if the hoarders had other obsessions before hoarding that people dismissed as nonsense.

EDIT: I also wanted to mention that Abcinthia brought up a very good point. The huge amount of OCD sufferers do not display the stereotypical characteristics that we associate with OCD. Many sufferers are very good at covering up their compulsions. In fact, many OCD sufferers have a form of OCD that doesn't even have visible compulsions, the compulsions all happen in the head through rumination and mental checking, thus, you can't even notice it!

 

[darkangel]

Youre right about Hoarding being a form of OCD. They have an OCD show on A&E which is just amazing to watch how people with it are theraputically fixed. It's on Mondays right after Intervention. Very good shows!

 

[Abcinthia]

I've noticed that a lot of the people on "hoarders" are older. If hoarding is a form of OCD, I wonder if the hoarders had other obsessions before hoarding that people dismissed as nonsense.

EDIT: I also wanted to mention that Abcinthia brought up a very good point. The huge amount of OCD sufferers do not display the stereotypical characteristics that we associate with OCD. Many sufferers are very good at covering up their compulsions. In fact, many OCD sufferers have a form of OCD that doesn't even have visible compulsions, the compulsions all happen in the head through rumination and mental checking, thus, you can't even notice it!

OCD normally will manifest at about adolescence or after a life event. A lot of women with OCD develop it after the birth of their first child. The person's family can aid their illness without realising it (which is why they are normally included in the threapy). So it could be that the hoarder's family just thought it was a funny quirk that the person could not throw away things and never challenged their beliefs and inadvertantly fed their illness.

A lot of sufferers of OCD may not even have compulsions. There are three types of OCD. Obessessions, compulsions or obessessions with compulsions (the most common diagnosis).


The thing that interested me the most when I studied OCD at college, was that OCD is found across the world (and men and women have an equal chance of getting it [though women are more likely to get treatment] and about 2.5% of the population have it in some form) but in very religious countries, the obessessions and compulsions are normally religiously based.