HOARDING..BURIED ALIVE

FROM TV SHOW..HOARDING BURIED ALIVE(Date: 4/22/10 @7:00 am)..
This show is about two ladies that are hoarders. A 57 year old receptionist, Charlotte Carrithers from Portland Orgeon wants to change her ways of being obsessive-compulsive. She buys things because she thinks that they make her feel good. She feels that she has to buy these things. If she doesn't buy them, she feels a lot of anxiety. After 20 years of hoarding, her 2 bedroom house is piled to the ceiling with clothes, books, and everything that you can imagine. There about 1,000-2,000 books in her house. She says that she feels hopeless and depressed and all of her stuff makes her feel secure.
A personal organizer comes in and helps her get some of her stuff separted. Charlotte decided to let alot of things go. She gave her nearby goodwill store boxes of stuff. Now she has a pathway through her house so that she can walk through and not crawl over a heep of things.
The other lady is a 44 year old woman, Shelley. Her two decades of being a compulsive hoarder is tearing her family apart. Her husband is ready to get a divorce and her kids are being affected by all of the clutter. Her youngest son Mark, stays in his room and doesn't talk very much. She says ever since a tradgic auto accident, she has started to collect things and she feels that she can't get rid of anything. The anxiety is overwhelming. She has sixty bottles of shampoo and hundreds of bars of soap piled everywhere in the house. Behavioral psychologist, Dr. Johan Rosqvist done a experiment on her by taking one of her sparkly pens to see how long it would take her to forget it. You could see the panic in her face, she said that she would never forget it. A personal organizer, Ellen also came to her house to help. Shelley did not get rid of anything but she did organize alot of things and put them downstairs in a basement. Her kids felt alot better and her husband because she cleaned up enough to get their dining room, kitchen, and living room back.
This tv show is very sad and this disorder tears many families apart. This show relates to what we have just studied in psychology about people who have obsessive-compulsive disorder.(chapter 14.4)