Category: COH Interviews

Day 1 – intervention at counsellor, Day 2 – mum hates me. OK, let’s see what tomorrow brings

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’ve never talked about it…

I didn’t even realize there were others.  Of course, I should have…but I’m guessing none of us talked about it. I still don’t know how I should talk about it.  My mom’s sick.  She is and always has been.  I felt like my home was something out of a horror film.  Driving by the home …

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HELP! 9/2/11

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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Living with internal scars: Daughter of a Hoarder

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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New Memoir by Daughter of a Hoarder

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8/16/11: BBC1 My Hoarder Mum & Me

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My Story

 8/11 My three sisters, brother, and I all grew up in a hoarding household. Today, our parent’s house is worse than ever, preventing me, my husband, and 10 month old son to avoid the house and visiting. Each one of us has been impacted significantly in our adult life because of hoarding. My husband gets …

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ABC 20/20-Story on COH Friday, 8/5/2011

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Group reaches out to children of hoarders

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

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How A Parent’s Compulsive Hoarding Impacts Children

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

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NPR-How COH Are Affected 7/20

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.’

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NPR: Diane Rehm show about Hoarding w/COH

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ABC 20/20 Seeking Hoarder & Child…

ABC News 20/20 is working on a story about the children of compulsive hoarders.  This program discusses the challenges faced by compulsive hoarders and their families in trying to overcome this mysterious and often misunderstood disorder, as well as the impact of the hoarding on the children who have lived or are living in a …

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Watch: The Hoarder, the Family & the Help

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

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Child of hoarder faces quite a task after mother’s death

-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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