Are you a hoarder?
I'm not personally a hoarder, but I love the show Hoarders on A&E.
Do you have a favorite episode which highlighted the issue of hoarding?
I can't think of a specific episode that was a favorite.  They've had so many...their eighth season began in 2016!
Are the episodes an eye opening experience as to how bad hoarding can be?
Yes it's terrifying.  All of the people are so impaired that they can't use their homes for cooking, sleeping, and they can barely move in the house.
I agree its a very serious condition. Do you think you could deal with hoarding if your mother had say like 500 pairs of shoes?
Compulsive hoarding
Compulsive hoarding, also known as hoarding disorder, is a behavioral pattern characterized by excessive acquisition of and an inability or unwillingness to discard large quantities of objects that cover the living areas of the home and cause significant distress or impairment. Compulsive hoarding behavior has been associated with health risks, impaired functioning, workplace impairment, economic burden, and adverse effects on friends and family members. When clinically significant enough to impair functioning, hoarding can prevent typical uses of space, enough so that it can limit activities such as
List of Hoarders episodes
This is a list of episodes for Hoarders, an American reality television program which aired on A&E, from 2009 to 2013, on Lifetime in 2015, and again on A&E beginning in 2016.
Each episode follows one or two participants, each of whom is a compulsive hoarder. Throughout the episode, an organizational expert (who may also be psychiatrist, psychologist or a professional organizer specializing in some aspect involving the treatment of obsessive/compulsive disorders, anxiety disorders, and/or hoarding) works with the