Anyone watching "Hoarders" right now??

[SeaSpray]

It's so sad, watching these people deal with their issues. I've only seen this show once or twice before, and both of those episodes had "good" endings. Do they always show a happy ending???

 

[schmitty]

I wish they would show more renovated houses and what it looks like several months later.

 

[pearlieq]

I've actually only seen one "happy ending". Most of the ones I've seen end with the person being unable to clear out and either in the same situation or in more trouble than before. It's really kind of a downer.

 

[themilesfamily]

I would bet that the majority of those on the show go back to hoarding. Hoarding has an extremely low cure rate.

I feel so bad for those people and their families.

 

[daughter_of_amid_chaos]

watching her lose her children and animals was heartbreaking!

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

the people who have children or animals are the ones i get the most angry about. it's obvious that it's not liveable to a living thing. if you want to subject yourself to that, that's fine, but to subject your kids and your pets....who have no control over how the house is kept....it just sickens me.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I caught a late repeat of the show that was on last night. I only saw the last half, but I was surprised at how the mental illness aspect of it wasn't mentioned more (maybe it was in the beginning and I missed it; they did mention in writing at the end the woman was undergoing home therapy and I'm glad they did have a mental health practitioner on sight to deal with the difficult emotions of everyone involved). Part of the issue may be that there is no real mental health classification for it - it may be a combination of factors that leads someone to living in conditions such as those, unique to each individual affected. I'd hate to think they created a show like that solely for entertainment purposes without educating the public to the real issues involved in hoarding behavior. http://www.socialworkblog.org/sections/index.php/2008/07/23/is-hoarding-a-big-deal/

 

[lemondog]

Some of these people go beyond hoarding...they don't clean up a thing. The first episode I ever saw was Augustine, the woman in Louisiana with over 4000 TONS of trash removed, and they found 2 dead animals underneath it all. It really is sad.

 

[barkley]

i think the happy endings are the exception.

the one episode that realy sticks out in my mind involved a married couple with a couple of kids. cps was involved. the issue was with the wife.

the house got cleaned up but there were boxes and boxes she was going to have to still go through (filled the entire garage and some were stacked in the house).

at the end it said within i want to say 6 months the husband had divorced and either had or was seeking sole custody of the kids.


i caught another recently where a woman came down from the spokane area to help her mom (she had almost died in the home and adult protective services got involved). the plan was to clean it up so it could be sold and the mom could move up here. during the process the daughter realized her mom was far more mentaly unstable than she realized, and the situation would just repeat itself (and the dd, having lived with it as a kid was no-way going to let her mom move in with her and expose her children to this).

 

[SusanWasHere]

It's so sad, watching these people deal with their issues. I've only seen this show once or twice before, and both of those episodes had "good" endings. Do they always show a happy ending???

Hi SeaSpray
I watched it last night and couldn't believe the conditions those poor animals were in! I felt so bad for them bc they can't help themselves. I did feel bad she was losing the animals, but was happy to read the end when they said they had all been adopted. I've watched most episodes of the show and they don't always end up happy. Some people don't finish the clean-up by the deadline before legal action is taken. I can't imagine being like that. There are times I feel nauseous watching! And I always want to scrub my house when it's over....

 

[Sparx]

I wish they would show more renovated houses and what it looks like several months later.

many times, the house ends up the same way it was before the show came in. thats probably why they don't show it.

 

[DVC-Don]

There is a house on my way to work that belongs to a hoarder woman. Every 4 or 5 years the village cleans it up (the outside) and within a few months trash is building up in the yard. Right now she is living in her minivan, which is packed solid except for the drivers seat. Go by there any time of the night or day this time of year and you can see the van is running for the heat. They tack the clean up cost onto her property tax and somehow she pays up. It just repeats.

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

Some of these people go beyond hoarding...they don't clean up a thing. The first episode I ever saw was Augustine, the woman in Louisiana with over 4000 TONS of trash removed, and they found 2 dead animals underneath it all. It really is sad.

that one made me sick. 4,000 tons of trash from a house, i don't think i even have 4,000 tons worth of ANYTHING in my house lol.

and the dead cats really upset me. how do you just lose a cat in your house and have it die and sit there for years/months at a time and just not know it's there??

 

[SeaSpray]

Hi SeaSpray
I watched it last night and couldn't believe the conditions those poor animals were in! I felt so bad for them bc they can't help themselves. I did feel bad she was losing the animals, but was happy to read the end when they said they had all been adopted. I've watched most episodes of the show and they don't always end up happy. Some people don't finish the clean-up by the deadline before legal action is taken. I can't imagine being like that. There are times I feel nauseous watching! And I always want to scrub my house when it's over....

Hello SusanWasHere

I hope you didn't see the episodes that were on later last night....I couldn't keep track of all the cat and kitten corpses they kept finding. And I know what you mean, I feel like the filth is so bad that it can come through the tv!!

P.S. I love seeing your WDW pics on Facebook!

 

[DisneyMomx7]

It's so sad and so unbelieveable. Until this show I really had never heard of hoarding. I've watched at few times and feel so sorry for the other family members, especially the kids. Of course it's like a train wreck - you want to stop watching but you can't.

But doesn't your house look immaculate after watching that show?

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

Some of these people go beyond hoarding...they don't clean up a thing. The first episode I ever saw was Augustine, the woman in Louisiana with over 4000 TONS of trash removed, and they found 2 dead animals underneath it all. It really is sad.

It wasn't 4000 tons...that would be A LOT of stuff! I did see the show, and there was definitely a lot, but they said, I think, one day they got rid of 4000 pounds, and then in the end, there was another 4000 pounds.

The two dead cats had me . I guess with all the other stench, who'd notice a couple of cat carcasses rotting. {{{shudder}}}

Augustine definitely has some major issues. It's hard to imagine anyone getting like that. When they found her top dentures, even tho they told her NOT to put them in, I was bracing myself for her doing it, because I honestly don't think she'd see it as a problem.