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TV Programme - Hoarding -tonight 16 August

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    Nimrod
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    Tuesday 16 August. BBC1 at 10.35 - My Hoarder Mum and Me.

    Tue Aug 16 2011 16:23:21 #
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    blueboy
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    that will be interesting..
    also i have planned to look at a hoarders programme on nat geographic..9pm tomorrow... for those who have that channel.

    Tue Aug 16 2011 16:34:54 #
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    blueboy
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    just to say ,found that programme very interesting... having gone through something quite similar..when i left my last place.... the panic and the stress of so many things...my soloution is now...not to buy anything else unless needed for the kitchen or house...it was interesting... that the programme began by trying to detach hoarding from ocd...

    Wed Aug 17 2011 9:58:40 #
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    David
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    I have experienced a bit of a hoarding problem for some years. In January of this year I employed somebody to help clear the flat. It took ten days of about 10 hours hours a day to clear things. I was ready for the action and actively participated. It is difficult to judge the reality of a situation portrayed in a documentary - many, many hours of filming and condensed into approximately a one hour time slot and the programme has a producer and an editor who decide on the narrative structure of the documentary. The film did not indicate over how many weeks the clearing took place, how many hours assistance did the hoarder get, for examples. The hoarder was also placed under pressure by arbitrary time constraints - for example-by only renting a storage space for a short period. Hiring a storage space in my opinion is a bad idea because the hoarder had to go through the sorting a second time. The supposed expert in New York was negative saying basically that hoarders should be left to their own devices and there was no long term cure. Thanks a lot lady -there's no hope then. Her expertise was based on the claim that she tried to help her mother, failed,and published a book about it. The film and Blueboy were right about the probability of hoarding becoming a separate illness in the new classification of mental illness along with hundreds of other psychiatric diagnoses. Sceptics about the new DSM believe that the new classification has more to do with the medical insurance business in the States - for the insurance business to pay out for a psychological malady it has to be in the classification. The DSM classification will have a knock effect on NHS as well of course. In the case of hoarding this may well be good in getting increased resources but also lots of beviour that was not defined as pathological in the future will be.

    Wed Aug 17 2011 18:23:58 #

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