Rescuers cut thru roof to get to dead hoarder

[Drolefille]

Originally Posted by LikeASista

I just finished reading your link, and thank you for this. This is quite interesting. I chuckled only a little bit when I read about Beethoven, as I know many musicians and composers, and while I hesitate to call them hoarders, I have referred to them as packrats. However, with the images we've seen from A&E (which is not a laughing matter), I assume hoarding would involve much more extreme cases. But then again, as I'm sure I will learn, there are probably degrees of hoarding.

Yes there are degrees , and quite possibly social restrictions in the past- wealth, servants, fires, size of homes - that kept some of the worst type of hoarding we see on TV today from reaching those depths. And at least in some cases - the Great Depression, poverty in general - keeping many things may have been a positive adaptation, although you would still need to get rid of them to benefit.

TLC also has a hoarding show that I like better in some ways and not as well in others.

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by Drolefille

TLC also has a hoarding show that I like better in some ways and not as well in others.

I like TLC's "Hoarding: Buried Alive" more.

I watch A&E's "Intervention." A&E's "Hoarders" and "Obsessed" are too much like "Intervention" for me.

I like "Intervention" more than TLC's "Addicted."

[33girl]

I wouldn't even call the Beales hoarders. They were just messy as hell.

One hoarder I remember was (I hope I get this right) a child when his family was put in one of the internment camps for Japanese-Americans. He of course lost everything, and ever since then has been afraid to throw anything out. Same with people brought up in the/lived through the Depression.