Hellfire and Hammerhandles

Autopsy shows Margareta Scheibe died of a heart attack (http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/Worth-Womans-Body-Found-Buried-in-Trash-139350333.html)   Additional quotes found regarding this sad story: Bill Scheibe said he’d tried repeatedly over the years to help his mother, to no avail. “If I had a dollar for every time I discussed this issue with her, tried to work with her on this …

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Death in trash-filled home shows difficulty of aiding solitary seniors By Moriah Balingit, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Children of Hoarders: Special Report One group is trying to raise awareness about the lives of kids who have hoarders for parents. Rory Devine reports.

Sent in to the COH Site: =Research Participant Requests from Case Western Reserve University -They are looking for Adult COH & Partners of Hoarders for -quote: -”study on the relationships of individuals with OCD or hoarding. Each study involves completing questionnaires online about relationships, emotions and OCD. You must be at least 18 to participate. …

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Quote: “The difference from OCD is that that thoughts in hoarding tend to not be as intrusive, repetitive, ritualistic, unpleasant as in OCD. Hoarding is more a passive preoccupation than an attempt to neutralize unwanted thoughts, images or impulses. Hoarding also can have its euphoric side when an item is found to hoard, like compulsive …

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Extremely insightful  post on Hoarder’s Son’s Blog: ~Lessons Learned by a Child of a Hoarder~

Title of Study: Reactions to Hoarding Principal Investigators: Martin M. Antony, PhD, CPsych, & Valerie Vorstenbosch, MA =Do you or your loved one have difficulty throwing things away?= Edited to add: This study requires the participation of Hoarder to qualify-COH Inc. -Researchers in the Department of Psychology at Ryerson University are seeking individuals and their …

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Hello, This comment was posted on the COH site-Donna: ============== http://childrenofhoarders.com/wordpress/?page_id=3479#comment-509 Katharine Donnelly and I, Fugen Neziroglu are working on an upcoming book on family members of hoarders.  We would love to get some feedback from those who have lived or who are currently a member of a hoarder .   We are looking to …

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Looking for support and resources in the UK? Visit the Help For Hoarders and Their Families website.

Subscribe to them for free! 12/8/11 Snippet  

The shame of my mother’s cluttered home made me keep men at a distance. Then I saw the house where Jon grew up

Hoarders & How To Free Your Life From Clutter Tune in tomorrow where Elizabeth Nelson of Children of Hoarders, Inc. will make a brief appearance

Dr. Suzanne Chabaud Sets the Stage for Children of Hoarders Research ›From the time that the ChildrenOfHoarders.com website was launched in 2006, adult children of hoarders have been sharing experiences and developing ideas about how growing up in a hoarding environment can affect a child and how those effects can echo into adulthood. While it …

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Psychiatric Times COMMENTARY The Hidden Lives of Children of Hoarders By Suzanne A. Chabaud, PhD | November 10, 2011 Dr Chabaud merged her dual doctorate in developmental and clinical psychology from Vanderbilt University to treat hundreds of clients of all ages. She founded the OCD Institute of Greater New Orleans, where she and her staff …

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“To learn that life is not just about what happened to you, but how you can move past it. I may still suffer with this, struggle every day to do basic things like answer the phone or open the door for someone, but I will be stronger for it, & I will make my life …

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As a partner of a COH together with other siblings is there any recognised Treatment providers in Germany. Little information easily available apart from one bit of academic research done on messies. Well done on the website and others connected. Though would be great help if content could be in German and Spanish as well …

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I am 42 years old. I have lived in over 50 places in my life. I move often so that I can’t accumulate ‘stuff’. I live a gypsy lifestyle because it is impossible to carry around too much crap. Both of my parents are hoarders. They divorced when I was 6. I remember my mother …

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Hi everyone, I’m Susan Gunther and a Ph.D student with Capella University. I am preparing to do my dissertation on the experiences of individuals who live with a hoarder.  I’m in the NYC area and my email is susangunther@optonline.net if anyone knows of any leads. Any information will be greatly appreciated.  – Susan Gunther  

In the beginning of the year 2011, my life was turned upside down because of hoarding. I moved in with my grandparents age two. I was too young to know it but I had just moved into the world of hoarding.It was a new house at the time I moved. As years went by the …

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Hello, I am a 23 year old daughter to a hoarder.  I am very very new to coming to terms with this.  To tell you the truth, my younger sister suffers from a very serious eating disorder, and my family’s focus and concern has been on her. We gave up on my father years ago. …

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I wrote a short story; my therapist liked it.  How telling a sentence.  I hope you enjoy it and take some comfort from it.  It was very therapeutic for me to write.  I take much solace in knowing that you all are there.  I am grateful for your companionship.    God bless you all.   …

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Text version of image from Steri-Clean, Inc.: Happy HOARDidays! A New Annual Tradition to Help Hoarding Families. Will You Help? Steri-Clean, Inc. and 1800HOARDERS.COM announces a new annual holiday tradition! We will be helping de-clutter two homes in the beginning of December for two lucky families for free! We are looking for two needy families …

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What advice do you have for these firefighters making presentations to children, on how to address the topic with their hoarding parent(s)? Fire Prevention Month: Stop Hoarding Mom and Dad? If you post your comments below, COH Inc. will forward all to Firehouse.com. Thank you for your input.

An organizing novel from the files of Patience Oaktree, Professional Organizer, By Valentina Sgro. Recommendation from Dorothy Breininger, Founder and President at Delphi Center for Organization

6-Parts, starting in October 2011. (Like all such postings sharing information about conferences and workshops, not an endorsement by or affiliated with, Children of Hoarders, Inc.)

Raised in a hoarded home? Participate in valuable & groundbreaking research!   Phase II of research of Adults Raised in Hoarded Homes by  Dr. Suzanne Chabaud, of the OCD Institute of Greater New Orleans.       From Dr. Suzanne Chabaud: Thank you for participating in my research on Adult-Children of Hoarders.  This research is …

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8/11 Okay,so where was all this help when I was growing up? As a middle child and the only male,it was my job to “fix” things,at least that’s how I saw it. Our house would have made it in the top ten,at least,on “Hoarders”.Both parents were drunks and constantly fighting. The conditions were such that …

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8/17/11 Hi, to all the other children of hoarders.  I am 33 and I totally understand where you are coming from.  My mum has filled a 280 sq.metre house both in the house, under the house and garages as well as up the driveway.  After having cleaned out the house 3 times in the past, …

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I need some advice in talking my grandmother around, she lives in a house full of junk, she is pretty tidy in the sense that there is no rubbish around, although she owns a 3 bedroom house she sleeps in the lounge room eats there and everything. She hoards things like Seamstress material painting gear, …

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Maybe it wouldn’t be so painful if I didn’t remember the “good ol’ days” when I was a little girl, six years old, having friends over for birthday parties, having the whole family over at Christmas for a big meal prepared by Mom and then singing Christmas carols before we opened presents. I don’t know …

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The Institute for Challenging Disorganization Why Can’t I Get Organized? Some Causes and Solutions for Disorganization Wednesday, September 14-6 – 8 p.m. (Registration at 5:00) Hilton Raleigh/Midtown-3415 Wake Forest Rd. Raleigh, North Carolina

WWLTV News-New Orleans, LA “…It’s never is about the stuff. The commonality that we had, it was the emotional trauma and the neglect and the lack of nurturing. It’s wasn’t the hoard,” Forbes said. “It was the behavior around the hoard that was so damaging.” Watch Video

NPR’s “Here and Now” program interviewing Holly Sabiston, daughter of a hoarder, 7/19/2011.

Tomorrow on the ‘Here and Now’ program on National Public Radio, this is the topic: ‘Tomorrow we look at how children of hoarders are affected.’

Advice from other COH on Guest Anxiety & Entertaining

It takes a village to help a hoarder, and the Lester Family and Orange County Task Force on Hoarding strive to do just that. This video features scenes from Cynthia Lester’s film: http://www.mymothersgardenmovie.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=euT0T5GimE0

TV reality shows can help and hurt people who hoard. Find out why and know what really works best for clients and the families who care about them.

…he’s interested whether, like hoarders, the relatives also exhibit a malfunction of their so-called “executive functions” — the cognitive and regulatory processes carried out in the brain’s anterior cingulate cortex.

-Q. As the executor of my mother’s estate, I have found myself in the unenviable spot of cleaning out my mother’s home, as both of my siblings refused to help. This home was no ordinary home, as I’d liken my mother to a hoarder. What expenses, specifically labor expenses, if possible, can be deducted as …

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…”What about the children of hoarders? There hasn’t been a lot of focus aimed at them. Not only is there a genetic component, just like OCD and bipolar disorder, but there’s a behavioral element, and symptoms of hoarding can start as early as age 12. This is why experts say…”

From: OCDIGNO- RE: Children of Hoarders Research Project- Dr Suzanne Chabaud’s research team continues to conduct interviews with our Children of Hoarders group. She and her team are grateful for all that you have done and continue to do. Her team will eventually interview everyone who volunteered and returned the initial survey, informed consent and …

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KTNV-ABC 13 Las Vegas, Action News, Courts involved, monthly spot checks ordered

…clutter, emotional chaos There’s nothing unusual about a mother or father who collects stamps, baseball cards or porcelain dolls. But when hobbyists become hoarders, their children often end up with life-long emotional effects. Go to full article in Deseret News

Children of Hoarders on Leaving the Cluttered Nest

The hoarder hotline is for families, friends and Clutter Cleaner Trusted Partners that are currently helping hoarders. 1-888-226-0030 Serious calls only please. This number is solely to help families in immediate need. Pricing: 30 minutes for $50 1 hour or more is $85 per hour Learn more:http://cluttercleaner.com/hoarder-hotline/

=In Pennsylvania, nursing home lawyers have started using a little known statute to force adult children to pay the health care costs of their aging parents. The statute is called a filial responsibility law, and is a carryover from 17th century English law. It dates back to colonial times when children were legally required to …

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 No, You Are Not A Book Hoarder- Making light of hoarding — or any mental illness — is disrespectful.- Published on March 28, 2011  By Jessie Sholl- I was already doing research for a story I hoped to write about book hoarding and now seem to have missed the boat, but that’s not the only …

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Frost and Lester share advice on how to deal with family members who hoard

How Do I Get Through To Mom That Compulsive Hoarding Is Unsafe?- Home Care for Seniors • Maryland, DC, Virginia- Getting parents help when they need it is part of being an adult child and a caregiver. We have to be their advocate when they cannot, or will not, be one for themselves. At the …

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Journal of Clinical Psychology Working with families of people who hoard: A harm reduction approach- Michael A. Tompkins/Article first published online: 28 FEB 2011/ DOI: 10.1002/jclp.20797 Abstract Approximately, 3%–5% of the U.S. population suffers from compulsive hoarding but others suffer as well, in particular, the family members who care about them. This article describes the …

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Some children of hoarders contract professional cleanup crews that can charge from $5,000 to $20,000 for a full clean. For others, the true treasures of a life—a special pair of ear rings, photographs from long ago—are buried between the layers of non-essential stuff a hoarder hoards. …

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