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There is a TV show about hoarding. It almost makes me physically ill to watch it, and the viewers never get to see a satisfactory conclusion, yet I keep watching it.
I wonder why?
I'm neat, by the way.
It is like watching a train wreck. You don't want to watch but you can't look away. I don't watch it all the time, but I have watched it enough to understand the format and recognized the doctors and organizers.
I have learned quite a bit, even though I think the show encourages confrontation. The hoarders are almost always sufferers, and their families are almost always in pain because of this behavior.
Some of the homes are hair raising. I don't know how people live in such filth. But apparently some do.
Because it defies human logic that someone could choose to live in squalor and be resistant to assistance in cleaning it up. These people are really screwed up, mentally - some have been traumatized, and some are just lazy slobs with no remorse or desire to live healthy lives. Many of them do not care what they put their families through (including their children, who often have to suffer, immeasurably).
I watch Hoarders, Hoarders:Buried Alive, Animal Hoarders and last night saw a new one called OCD Hoarders I think it was called. I just find it interesting that anyone can live that way. Sometimes I can barely look, like when they find dead animals, there are human and animal feces in the home, or when there are roaches etc. running all over. They are interesting shows.
Because it defies human logic that someone could choose to live in squalor and be resistant to assistance in cleaning it up. These people are really screwed up, mentally - some have been traumatized, and some are just lazy slobs with no remorse or desire to live healthy lives. Many of them do not care what they put their families through (including their children, who often have to suffer, immeasurably).
Years ago,before all the shoes on Hoarders - the talk shows would do a hoarder piece from time to time - I ALWAYS turned in for those.
I watch because I just can not wrap my mind around why/how able bodied people live that way. Or the number of nurses, teachers, firefighters etc that they have shown. People that you'd think "have it together"
I'm guilty of lurking on the "stepping out of squalor" message board - I've been reading over there on and off for a while, and I still can't figure out what makes those people tick.
There is a TV show about hoarding. It almost makes me physically ill to watch it, and the viewers never get to see a satisfactory conclusion, yet I keep watching it.
I wonder why?
I'm neat, by the way.
You can stop watching hoarders all you have to do is push the power button on that remote control or television and magically that program disappears. You just do not want to quit watching hoarders.
I haven't watched television for about 15 years now and trust me you will not miss a thing. If I did not have my husband I would not have a television but he loves the television and he works hard so I think he should be able to sit in front of the television with the cable package that I pay so much for each month and sleep to his hearts content.
You can stop watching hoarders all you have to do is push the power button on that remote control or television and magically that program disappears. .
There's a power button on the remote?? You mean the button that is red, as a warning to never touch it?
I find it inspiring to watch! It makes me feel motivated to clean out closets and drawers!
I also find it appalling how people can have a mental health condition that goes untreated so long that they destroy not only their families, but often even the very dwelling they have trashed.
It is hard to comprehend that someone can't "see" and rectify such things as huge cobwebs hanging from the ceilings and in the corners. I keep thinking - well dern - if nothing else, seems like they could whisk away the cobwebs!
When I see all the trash on the floor - and I mean real trash as in empty bottles, cans, mail, newspapers, and pizza boxes - I am so perplexed as to why someone would not simply get trash bags and pick that stuff up instead of walking on it.
Not all hoarders are nasty. I have seen several episodes of folks that vacuumed and mopped and cleaned around the stacks of plastic tubs, dolls on beds (neatly arranged and regularly dusted, but completely covering the beds and other furniture) . . . yet every inch of the house was stacked, piled or covered with items. That type of hoarding I can understand better than garbage being mixed in with everything else.
I just can't fathom choosing to live in filth. Accumulating objects that a person has trouble letting go of - that I get. But just piling things up, allowing bathrooms to be full of scum and trash and hair around the sink, toilets that have never been cleaned - that is beyond my comprehension.
I watched it once. It was like watching a slow-motion road kill. Once was enough.
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