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Usually on these shows they get both help from a therapist as well as an organizer, so the hope is they will learn how to cope with stress as well as learn how to organize or not to start hoarding again. However most people in society don't have this available to them and I think them not continuing to hoard or reverting back to it is high. I think therapy is a must to overcome this and even with therapy there will be people that can't beat it.
I've watched this show for as long as it has been on, plus the other Hoarders shows. I was never the hoarding type anyway, but it has made me want to buy anything that could cause clutter even less. I think when the last of my children move out and I am living alone, I will live with as little clutter and knick-knacks as possible.
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When my son moved out this past July, I was de-cluttering my office into his room before the U-haul was out of the driveway. To have breathing room was wonderful! I'm not a hoarder, but my sister-in-law (and her mom before her) borders on it. Especially food. There are cans of soup in her house that expired 10 years ago, but she doesn't see a problem with that. When I was there for a week in September, I cleaned out her fridge and threw away about six grocery bags of rotten meats, fruits and veggies. It was disgusting...
When my son moved out this past July, I was de-cluttering my office into his room before the U-haul was out of the driveway. To have breathing room was wonderful! I'm not a hoarder, but my sister-in-law (and her mom before her) borders on it. Especially food. There are cans of soup in her house that expired 10 years ago, but she doesn't see a problem with that. When I was there for a week in September, I cleaned out her fridge and threw away about six grocery bags of rotten meats, fruits and veggies. It was disgusting...
That is disgusting. So would your sister-in-law eat that 10 year old food she was keeping? I have seen some of these hoarders with food that had to be bad, but I think their systems build up an immunity to it. I remember one with a lady that had chickens and there were literally unrefrigerated eggs all over the house. She would grab a bunch of them and cook scrambled out on a fire outside and eat them.
^^^ So is that for real or a made up affliction? I would hope it isn't for real.
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