Hoarding Part 1

Documentary on hoarding.

[@annwaine2881]

Roy is very selfish to impose this on his wife. I don't think I could stand it, I would have to leave. His is obviously a psychological condition and he needs to get it treated for the sake of his marriage.

[@phogroian1]

I'd say the only rule is that the horde should be not be a burden for the hoarder or his/her family. The possessions/collections should be a hobby, or otherwise enjoyable. Once they are a millstone, what's the point?

[@CheetahFoxx]

I'm not a hoarder, but I am a pack rat. There are rules that must be followed. Keep standards high; both in what you pack and how you display If it has no significant value, pitch it No storage: If you cant display it, dont pack it Pick themes and pack accordingly, dont just grab anything Know your themes and packings like a professor Dont go for top prices for your packings (buying or selling) "Too good to throw away" is no excuse. Thats what Goodwill is for A good packrat knows when to let go

[@EvendimataE]

one time I found a desktop computer in a garbage bin... since then I started checking garbage bins more often and finding more desktops, laptops, electronic stuffs, good used clothes sometimes new, recyclables where I make about $70 a week.......good thing I had to migrate to another place where I can not do that now....but I still miss the times when I need something I know 90% of the time I have it

[@BlackVoicesOnFilm]

I don't understand how she takes it. I couldn't live like that. If it were me, I'd wait until he had to go out of town to visit someone and I'd CLEAR HOUSE. There's no getting through to a hoarder it seems but to tell you the truth I'd nip it in the bud from the getty go. I wouldn't have let it progress this far. It would be better for her to get a 2nd home or apartment and tell him he can come stay but he can't bring ANYTHING with him except for the clothes on his back.

[@sarcasticallyrearranged]

It wouldn't work. You would just infuriate him and it would be filled back up immediately. It's a mental illness, not something that is purposely done.

[@DoUWanna007]

0:05 a ripped pair of pants 'that need repairing' are no good if they are not repaired. That's why they are torn, they are trashed. If fixed, it will be torn again. Start over, get a new pair of pants. Toss out the stuff. But it's easier said than done. Have to find out why a person seems to need to keep these things. If tossed, are you breaking a memory? Feelings are involved. Once feelings are exposed then healing can begin;)

[@bagobeans]

Hoarders have an attachment to objects. They don't follow rules about how to throw stuff out. They have memories attached to each object.They can't throw anything away. They transfer feelings to each object. They are not stubborn, they are not lazy, they are not selfish. They have an illness. Many have had traumatic experiences as children or young adults. The comments from some of these viewers tells me they know nothing about this condition. Hoarders are definitely not packrats!

[@Multimeli123]

Wow what an amazing video! I feel for these people, I have OCD but the opposite end of the spectrum, I am a neat freak and I do not do well w/ a lot of people in my home,such as having a party. I get anxious and feel as though I will have a panic attack. OCD is a tough thing but you can get through it, I recommend cognitive behavior therapy it has positive out comes for many people. God Bless you all

[@CheetahFoxx]

Yeah, thats the goal. But since hoarders can't recognize when they reach that state. That's what concrete rules are for. It's a guidline to keep from that point. For instance, my themes are minerals (with a heavy focus on cut and uncut precious gems and geodes), pre-1900s bottles, and a tangent on fireworks. By these rules I have amassed many thousands of dollars of collectables on a minimum budget and all are nicely -displayed- (not stored) in a single walk-in closet.

[@wildgift2]

All this dude needs to find a community of bike repair people and his goods will be back on the roads in a couple years.

[@ReligiousZombie]

Sounds like a good deal to me. Fill your home with junk, then scores of volunteers will come, remove the stuff, and renovate and redecorate your home, free of charge!

[@gypsianna]

Thank you for posting! I hate clutter but my two hot spots are the kitchen junk drawer and my purse and watching these motivates me to do those two tasks asap :) I feel sad for these people and pray they will get the help they need- none of us is perfect and we all need help sometimes, so hopefully people will stop condemning these hoarder types and try to get them help instead.

[@StressTheSky]

My grandfather is like this. I remember I went to school for two years and I lived with him. But before I could move in, I had to clean out one of the rooms to be able to live in it. The whole room was a sea of stuff going all the way up to my waist. I threw everything in the trash.

[@PaineLover]

cuddley, From reading your replies I can tell you know very well how difficult it is dealing with a hoarder. My sister is also a hoarder of the worst kind (there are different degrees, or levels, of hoarding). She is a recluse. If anyone even moves something from the piles of stuff she goes crazy. This has been going on for 25 yrs.

[@IntroducingEmy]

He'd just start again as soon as he got back. It's a compulsion.

[@Oceans780]

OCD Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

[@Jx1x3]

I have a bunch of bike parts...even though they're just parts...they hold value to me. Maybe I'm a hoarder

[@telecasterbear]

that was then, roy. you dont need to save every scrap of paper, because you were needy as a child. time to get some help.

[@quizzicalsphinx]

I suppose it's fascinating because it puts things into perspective? Like everyone else's normal "I should clean out this closet, I can't find anything" or "screw it, I'll do the dinner dishes in the morning" suddenly doesn't feel quite so slovenly.

[@gothandproudxx]

ur right its just about having respect for urself and ur surroundings its ok to have a hobby and collect a little bit but the way they were living was just plainly filthyxoxoxo:3

[@TheNoisePolluter]

Funny thing is that once something gets buried, it never gets used or even looked at until you dig it up.

[@Varldsligist]

I'm obsessed with watching videos about hoarding. I hoard videos of people hoarding, my harddrive is full of them.

[@mztweety1374]

Watching shows like this inspires me to clean!

[@Star13570]

Hoarding is a disorder and I feel horrible for these people and its sad to see them in this situations. I just recently learned about this and it truly horrified me

[@PsalmHymn]

Yeap, that's called a community ! note: in Albania, by contrast; if you fall, you don't get up !

[@JasperXoR]

actually most people go into psychology to try and solve thier own problems. That's what the last two psych majors I talked to told me. I've known a few outside of their work environment and find it to be true quite often.

[@wilkes85]

That guy with the bike collection could fix them up, sell them, and have a nice business going on.

[@rubym357]

My father was a hoarder, and he suffered from PPD. The only way we were able to rectify the problem was to throw him out. It was a sad occasion, but we had no choice.

[@Josaline100]

I do not think this man was being selfish and robynsegg you might need to understand that there are different types of hoarders. Many are just lazy, living in their own rubbish and filth. This man lost his job as a computer programmer which in the later years of your life can be devastating. His home is not dirty just full of bikes. He suffers OCD but does not harm to anyone with his type.

[@MastermindX]

My father has this thing. Last year he had a sickness and he is on a wheelchair now, so I went to his house and threw all his shit away, while he was sitting there unable to do anything and saying "Wait wait wait... are you sure you can throw that?" and I was all like "Yeah, don't worry dad, it's just some trash." Took me three days. Now once in a while he asks me for some thing I threw away, but it was worth it.

[@meloncollie75]

My mom had this problem and it was very difficult for my brother and I to deal with, people need to understand that this problem goes deeper then the fact that someone likes to collect stuff, there is a more serious issue going on.

[@jasondave2000]

SECTION THESE PEOPLE so they get the help they need. And clear out their nasty homes for the public's health !

[@erbiumfiber]

My brother's been a hoarder since early childhood (as early as I can remember, he is 5 years older than I am). Now he's 52- I haven't gone into his house for at least 6 years-no one does. Just a matter of time before the health department declares his house unfit for human occupancy. Or it all falls in on him because I don't think it can bear the weight of his junk, much of which is machine tools, compressors, really heavy stuff and his house is over 100 years old.

[@sarcasticallyrearranged]

I'm worried about the state of one of my brother's house. No one has been allowed inside for years and my mom said that it was really cluttered, which isn't like him. Now that he's disabled, I worry about him falling and not being able to reach the phone. How's your brother doing now?

[@WillBackbone]

That food could easily make you sick. The dead animals can cause really bad health issues as well. Hoarding one thing or another is bad but when it affects their health it is an entirely different issue. You are right in your post.

[@jasondave2000]

Ironic - a psychology student who doesn't recognise their own psychological illness Also, why would you wait THREE YEARS to check up on a hoarder? Knowing how much damage they can do in that time. It only takes 15 mins to call by once a month!

[@Mikita31j7]

While it's recently been discovered that Serotonin may play a significant role in some types of OCD, the PET scan of a hoarder differs from those with other OCD or OCPD symptoms. BUT, that is a break-through. Hopefully there will soon be others.

[@rayvnluv]

What is being neglected is that there is a Serotonin deficiency in OCD -obsessive compulsive disorder which is related to hoarding.

[@vulcangrl13]

Also, Loyd should have made a business selling bike parts, especially to people who are restoring old bikes.

[@WillBackbone]

Well I can tell you from being a landlord it's an issue. I co-own several apartment buildings that were built in the late 90's and they are in a very nice part of a small town about an hour from L. A. & we have had issues with this. We inspect apartments at least once per year & are in them for maintenance and repairs from time to time. We have had to evict several people and you would not have a clue that they were this way when you leased the apt to them, They can ruin an apartment with junk.

[@user-wy8co8xq7h]

Where can I find a better quality version?

[@ZaynahZihoa]

@NaruandKane Maybe because they have so many stacks of strange, unidentified things, you wonder what might be in there and where they got it. Is it all trash or maybe some hidden treasures too?

[@ost324]

it's so hard because telling a hoarder to stop collecting stuff and to get rid of it is like telling an anorexic to just eat- it doesn't work, it doesn't solve the problem. But at the same time, you can't allow someone to be drastically underweight just like you can't allow someone to live in all that filth- but I think they need to move slower, give him time to understand why he hoards, because at that rate, he'll just start it again

[@PungiFungi]

@barkulator , I would said that our Western materialistic society give people the opportunity to nurture these mental problems. When your mind is no longer gearing toward thinking about simple survival, it is now free to think about other nonsensical things.

[@LuckyGuu]

Lloyd needs to sell all his bike parts for Ca$h - scrap metal, then take up beach fishing. Of course that will never happen, but meds might help??

[@petulia67]

The British hoarders seem like real lightweights compared to the ones in America- you can still see parts of their floor. We really do lead the world in collecting crap.

[@8jbird]

I visit third world countries and they do have these mental problems. I agree, they do not get treatment. This problem becomes worse with age and in third world countries they don't live as long. I know someone (mid 60s) with these hoarding traits and encourage him to donate, share and sell. Sometimes he will let me do that for him. He is brilliant but there seems to be something (mentally) missing to enable him to sort and organize. It's so sad. He is a bachelor. No one can live with him.

[@1GiveSubs1]

"It is a nice little room" LMFAO

[@Lonsoleil]

@Therzroomattheback You wouldn't be saying that if you lived next door to one of these people. I've seen cases where these people will have infestations of roaches that will spill out and affect their neighbors. Plus, living like that is an extreme fire hazard. Why should someone else have roaches and their house burning down because their neighbors choose to live in filth?

[@MyPersonalVendetta]

I live with a hoarder. I'm about to move out, because she can't deal with it. Every time I even attempt to throw away her trash, she freaks out.

[@HattieLovesCattie]

I guess I missed this.I started watching Hoarders about a month ago.

[@sarcasticallyrearranged]

This is way before the show "Hoarders " premiered .

[@Lonsoleil]

I'm only watching this video to gather data and information to help my 88-year-old gramma who has a SEVERE case of hoarding disorder. But I hate watching this stuff because it hits so close to home. I can empathize with the family members of hoarders when I see them get frustrated beyond belief. Last time we tried to clear my gramma's house out, she wouldn't let us throw away anything. I was damned near pulling my hair out cuz I couldn't figure out why she didn't just THROW THE SHIT AWAY!

[@cocinerosolar]

@MastermindX i like the way you did it, you did not have to spend a dime on therapy for your dad, you took care of it at once.

[@ladyfuschia]

Well, that's one way to get your house cleaned and remodeled!!

[@blobbyblob2573]

Bloody hell.. and the house is full of damp.. just like Roys brain I would have left him years ago.. he is nuts

[@altha2008]

right, if you get hurt falling down walking around your junk, it is tax payers who would be stuck with your hospital bill

[@robynsegg]

Thank you so much!

[@LuckyGuu]

regarding Lloyd, my Dad did not "develop relationships with stuff", he just can't have people inside.

[@handsomebstard]

Roy reminds me of Michael Howard, or more accurately, he reminds me of Rory Bremner's impression of Michael Howard. Not quite as creepy though.

[@kirikakirikakirika]

@frtw4428 I agree with you except for on one thing, the ADHD. Kids in third world, fourth world, and fifth world countries also suffer from that, they just aren't treated for it. ADHD is something your born with, OCD and many of those other ailments are something you develope.

[@Nietzsche81]

These people live in complete and utter messy, disorganized environments, because their emotions and thoughts are so disorganized. So sad because the mess will consume you.

[@thelamb777]

I can understand a hoarder's state of mind...

[@chrisrod3300]

@frtw4428 You do have a point, I think it has to do with ppl not wanting to just admit they are nasty. Or take responsibility for their actions. I drink too much, I have a disease, cant throw things away-mental illness. It's just nasty.

[@iraqidolphin]

That would be a lot easier, but they'd have a rebound collection growing stronger. I do think some should be hospitalized because of food poisoning (remember the lady with the 'organic' and perfect looking pumpkin that was rotten to the core) or when hoarding body fluids. That has gone too far. Oh yeah..dead bodies of pets.

[@Lonsoleil]

JasperXoR - Great suggestion, but unfortunately that sounds kinda pricey. If I had enough money to send my Gramma off somewhere for a year and have her come back to a shiny, clean house then I swear to God I'd do it in a heart beat.

[@omgfaglolz]

the bike guy lives in south central, thats the HOOD! could you imagine someone trying to break in? they'd probably call the cops to get them unstuck.

[@y2joct7]

@universaleffect when it becomes one of ur family u love then u'll see it differently.

[@JasperXoR]

I would never agree to clean while the person is there. You cannot ask hoarders to clean out stuff themselves they'll work on a small box and remove 20% of it that can be removed and later put most of it back. The hoarder needs a year vacation and come back to a few real things he desires. Possibly never to go back to same home. Just my opinion. All these people are putting tremendous obsticles to success by clearing stuff with them there and not moving them out!! Just my take

[@vulcangrl13]

The good thing about having elderly hoarder family is if they die, you inherit this stuff and there's a chance you'll have something of value and get some money. :D

[@PungiFungi]

@barkulator , frtw4428 said it all, and I will quote: "Only in the so-called "developed" world! Look at tribal peoples in the Third World. They're just as human as we are, yet they don't suffer these mental maladies. They're too busy gathering food and other resources to help their families and their communities; they don't have time to give a shit about OCD, ADHD, or some other ailment. "

[@EmbroideredFlower]

I think it's interesting because you don't know what real treasures are hidden there. They would possibly be millionaires if someone sold that stuff! Bless them they can't help it.

[@inkey2]

I dont see why he could be sent to jail...as long as he keeps all the crap inside. It's not like bikes are going to explode into flames

[@GuruPePe33]

i would have no connection with my family member that had that ... i would leave until they got better...out of sight out of mind

[@remabarve]

I want to start a bicycle company with this man.

[@StandardStars]

I can't believe how insensitive people are being... it's an illness just like any other.

[@PurdyBear1]

I wonder if there ever is an organised hoarder! All seem to just dump it on the floor. If they want to collect something then at least be organised.

[@phoenix08808]

I agree! who the hell are we as a society to tell him what to do with his life??? Put him in jail? SERIOUSLY???? does our judicial system have nothing better to do? and don't tell me that it brings down the property value blah blah blah. He's not living in Bel Air, that I can guarantee.

[@GuacamoleKun]

How do you fit 5000 bikes in one bedroom??? I just helped my semi-hoarder neighbor move his 4000 model airplane kits from one room to another and THAT almost filled up an entire room!

[@TheSocietyflawed]

@frtw4428 i'm sure just as many people suffer from OCD and ADHD in the third world. they just got get diagnosed

[@hdyudu]

thay did say toasters but thay say also thare broken and no good most of it is just garbage such as old paper and catalogs that can be taken out and burned in the pit or barrel and plastic bags scadder about metal peices that need to be scrap not vintage antique that are or o most in working shape and neatly put away

[@imsobored8921]

dorothy is from hoarders humm is this where she got known?? IDK

[@kurorisu5]

I find it funny that hoarders seem to think that all things are valuable, and yet they leave the stuff lying on the floor and walk all over it, let things collect dust and fall apart....

[@TheBargar]

@ezekieloak That may well be the case but would he survive a fire ?

[@iraqidolphin]

Meds, Meds, Meds. They help lots.

[@robynsegg]

@TheBargar: I saw that too. He did send an insulting comment to himself didn't he? Now what does THAT say?

[@PungiFungi]

@paisleyyama , yes, all of the "bad stuff" in order to survive. They don't have time for this frivolous nonsense.

[@kennyscott1089]

I once had about 80 bikes. I’m now down to 8.

[@QuiksiIver]

Why was he going to jail for having a messy yard and house?

[@Therzroomattheback]

@TheBargar Yes, if he was wise

[@angelicfruitcake801]

I felt so sad for that first guy :(

[@finnjolly]

Can someone please tell me how to contact the woman who is the organizer for the bicycle man...Neighbor needs her!!! Baaaaaaad

[@TheSocietyflawed]

can't believe he was a psychology student...why didn't he catch himself before this got so bad?

[@ceterababe]

Better to have bikes than animals.......Can't believe he slept OUTSIDE....

[@MasterSoki]

@iraqidolphin whats the link to the pumpkin and body fluid lady :O

[@celtictigerr]

poor roy...the lady is so nice

[@TSXboy26]

id send Roy on a vacation and throw all that shit away!!

[@ClubPenguinFrog1]

hoarders gross me out but i luv to watch the show

[@quizzicalsphinx]

Um. I wish I could say that I hadn't seen hoarders who actually DO that, but . . .

[@Queenofthemisfits]

Bike guy wasnt hurting anyone

[@frtw4428]

Only in the so-called "developed" world! Look at tribal peoples in the Third World. They're just as human as we are, yet they don't suffer these mental maladies. They're too busy gathering food and other resources to help their families and their communities; they don't have time to give a shit about OCD, ADHD, or some other ailment. They might not have the modern luxuries and conveniences that we take for granted, but that does not make them less fortunate.

[@somethingswicked]

This is painful to watch. It really disturbs me for some reason...

[@boostedturbotom]

dam I think this guy gots my Redline that they stole from me when I was a kid