Category: COH Site Guest Submission

Comments and input from guests of the COH Site. (Views/opinions posted do not necessarily reflect those of Children of Hoarders Inc.)

New COH blogs recently added to our list

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An essay on being a COH, in an E-book

Hellfire and Hammerhandles

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Family Members Needed for Research

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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information/Germany?

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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relieved to know I am not alone

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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Hoarding Dissertation

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  

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The time my life changed because of hoarding

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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New to this

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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Mom went on vacation and I CLEANED!

8/11 Mom has hoarded since my grandmother died.  Sometimes I feel like really I was raised by my grandparents and now I’m left taking care of my mother.  Only she doesn’t want to be taken care of.  Or does she?  She’s so young to be acting the way she does, but she’s left the house …

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My burden/Son

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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Hello. 44 y/o daughter

Over the past few days since the 20/20 package aired, I have been trying to grapple with the idea that I am not alone. I am the 44 year old daughter and only child of OCD parents. My mother’s obsession is with hoarding, rage and hand-washing. My father was obsessed with work & money. I …

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So glad to find out I’m not alone

8/11 My mom saves newspapers because she says someday she’s going to clip things out of them she wants.  She has huge stacks of them throughout the house and actually pays to store more in a storage unit. She also saves magazines and old catalogues.  She’s got Christmas catalogues from more than 10 years ago …

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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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