hi, I just watched episode 13 season 6 with Nancy. I was truly touched with her and her caring family. So curious on how she is doing now and if the is something I can do to help. I'm not rich but I would love n try in some way. Please even just to know she is doing good.. Thank u. Tara

hello my name is Brittany Shelton and I'm looking to get my grandmother martha turn some help with hoarding. she's always been big on keeping things even if that meant it was trash but when I left home about 9 years ago is when it all really began she has no living room she's ran herself out of her bedroom so she's now staying in my old bedroom she can't get to her stove her back door she can only open the fridge about 4 inches she has to work to get to her washing machine she was in the middle of remodeling and then it all just came to a halt and she started to hoard things she has a two car garage filled with stuff her yard is filled with old vehicles and all sorts of junk she heat by wood stove because her heating system doesn't work anymore and there's so much stuff in her house but I'm scared the wood stove is going to catch it on fire she has been through one previous house fire in the same house due to a ceiling fan wiring I feel like maybe when I left home she felt like she was going to be alone so she decided to hoard things she will not throw nothing away she keeps everything she has a cat and the dog who have no room to run or do anything and she has chickens in her yard we've been to her house and help her to clean it before several times but it just was too much for us to conquer and before we could get to the next room the room that we had just cleaned out was already filled again please please please help me to help my grandmother she has lots of health problems and cannot do much now and I'm scared she might fall and get hurt and nobody will ever know because she's there by herself you have to walk sideways to get him to her house you can hardly get into her bathroom honestly it is really bad I feel like this is my responsibility to get her the help that she needs

My name is Sandy, I am writing about my daughter Lisa, she is an extream hoarter, she doesn't know how to help herself and i don't know how to help her. You can't even walk into her house, you can't even get to the bathroom. She has two sons, twins, and they are so worried about there mom, she is so depressed about her house she can't even get up from the one spot left clean for her to lay on, a part of the couch, I'm afraid she's going to kill herself if I can't get her some help, my grandsons cry there selves to sleep because they have had to go live with there dad because of the house, its very unsanitary. I can send you pictures. Please help my family, your my last hope, my only hope, please contact me. Sandy 6616793579 or sjohnson2453@yahoo.com.

I have just purchased a house from an extreme hoarder. I am a remodeling contractor and this is the worst case of hoarding I have ever seen. He may be interested in having someone talk to him. This house is packed to the cieling including the basement. I've givin him 30 days to move and empty the house but I don't see how he can do it. This man is in bad shape. Maybe you could help him. You can contact me @. Santonimichael@aol.com thank you

I am in desperate need of help. I am a hoarder. I need help to clean up my home. I don't have the money & am willing to take any help. I am willing to have my story told if you can help. Thank you

Hello.. Iam looking for help with my dad's hoarding ..the problem is...we(my brother and I ) have been trying to get him out of the spot he's in for soooo many yrs.But he secluded himself back in the woods without anyone around and he's now 73 yrs old.

The problem is he fell a couple of yrs ago bc of all the clutter and mess at his trailer out in Turkey Creek, LA. And then soon after this fall.. he later had a stroke. So now he is in nursing hm in Pine prairie and might soon be on hospice. My brother and I also live in 2 seperate states which made/makes it EXTREMELY hard to try to help my dad with his problem.

SO now my brother and I are trying to get bck to his trailer in turkey creek to clear off/out his EXTEMELY clutttered and unliveable trailer(there's sooo much mold its unfathomable) and on his lot he also has like 11 diff cars that dnt run in his yard(wth junk loaded in them as well), a small bus on his lot(junk in it also), 2 boats,atv vehicle, and a camper van as well.

ALL of this is completly overwhelming for my brother and I plus we now have to go deal with my sick father whom we have no idea how much longer he has to live.(due to his stroke he cannot walk and is now having trouble eating and speaking very well.
SO relly no telling how much longer he has with us.We/he needs help financially and physically dealing wth what we have to go clean up for him.

My brother lives in NC and I live in Pasadena,ca.
Please tell me if you have any ideas or help with a clean up solution.WE are trying to arrange flights now but duno if I can afford the pricey ticket because of the late notice to come from LA to Pine Prairie, LA

Thanks so much!!
ANgelique
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Hi my name is Aliyah and I live with my grandmother, she has been a hoarder years! It's only gotten worst after my mom, brother and I moved out I few years ago. But I had moved back & I have 2 babies and it's not safe for them. I think she's gotten her husband a little into the habit as well. We live in a 3 story house & she has the basement, porch, the refrigerator and freezer both are filled with old food! The second floor is filled with racks & piles of clothes most she never even worn! The 3rd is just cluttered with a bunch of crap!PLEASE HELP!!

aliyahholland526@gmail.com

Hi my name is Aliyah and I live with my grandmother, she has been a hoarder years! It's only gotten worst after my mom, brother and I moved out I few years ago. But I had moved back & I have 2 babies and it's not safe for them. I think she's gotten her husband a little into the habit as well. We live in a 3 story house & she has the basement, porch, the refrigerator and freezer both are filled with old food! The second floor is filled with racks & piles of clothes most she never even worn! The 3rd is just cluttered with a bunch of crap!PLEASE HELP!!

aliyahholland526@gmail.com

help help help my grandmother and mother are hoarders and I wanna help them they have barely got room to walk in a two bedroom two bath trailer it's filled with everything I go over there and have to stand up because the couch and loveseat are covered with stuff too . Every room is filled like this and they wonder why I don't come over alot

My name is Nikki and my father is a hoarder. He collects anything that he feels is significant. My parents are married and reside in seperate homes do to this disease. The home that my father lives in is the childhood home which we grew up in, as the disease became increasingly worse he moved his things into to our space and pretty much moved us out. My father needs help and we are out of options...he will die in it or needs to die to it.Please consider helping us help my father regain his life back. It's not about the money but his health. Thanks in advance for your time and consideration. I can be contacted by email...nikkimaxwell101@Yahoo.com

Need help for my parents hoarding. It has been going on since I was a child. Please help the health of everyone in their house is my main concern. Piles from floor to ceiling. All rooms full of junk 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, 2 living rooms, kitchen, laundry room. Located in Florida. After the major hurricanes that hit us the house needs repairs but its to bad to get repaired too much stuff. This is a serious case. My mother was adopted as a child she believes she will have nothing again like when she was a child. she feels the need to complete her by shopping for junk. Please please help I want their grandchildren to visit them. Desperate! !!

Paula_quiles@yahoo.com

Hello, I am the daughter of a hoarder. My mother has been a hoarder for about 20 yrs. Her 3 bedroom/2bathroom home is consumed with stuff from the floor to the ceiling. Her hoarding has projected outside to fill a huge barn, a car port, and about 5 other double car sized storage buildings in the yard. There are path ways thru the home which I myself struggle to get through. The home has broken items like the washing machine, refrigerator, a repaired ceiling that all need to be replaced but you couldn't get the old out to get the new in. My parents are nearing their late 60's and I fear for them if they ever needed medical help in the home or if the house caught fire they'd be burned alive. I know my parents would have it so much easier if my mom could get her problem under control. I had contacted Hoarders a few yrs back and they wanted my mom for a show but after I chatted with them about it and I questioned my mom, I backed out. Pls, pls, pls if you are serious about helping... consider my mom.
Clhartley8899@gmail.com

My house is atrocious. I have lost my daughter to the state because of the condition of my house. I can't afford to have someone to clean it out but unless I do I can't get my daughter back. I have mice galore and they are infecting my whole house and eating all my food. They are chewing through the wires in my house to my refrigerator and now it doesn't work either. My central air doesn't work and it is too hot to try to do anything in my house. My house should be worth around 300,000 but now it is worth maybe 80-100,000 because of what I have let happen to it. I need help so badly.

Toni Benedict
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LOOK no further! I am the one you are looking for!!! I am the "perfect hoarder"...what an oxymoron!!! I USEDto be a school teacher but now I'm just a BIG FAT HOARDER!!! MY $tory can make YOU million$!!!***MM

Are you still looking for hoarders? I know someone that needs help, but don't want to post her information unless there is hope of getting her help

I am writing as the wife of the man who has inherited property from his father. Approximately 90% of the property is covered in Hoarding. Approximates: 500 Tires, 20 Large mounds of wood, 4 hazardous structures once homes filled with stuff, many many piles of trash, mounds of sawdust, cars. My husband and I have no idea were to begin. We have cleaned out two of the cars and burnt some things. There was also a large amount of stuff in someone else's home that we recovered and cleaned out. This someone else recently called and said he found more. Its been slow going and Hard on my husband because he feels like this is someone else's stuff and he shouldn't be messing with it, and it also has memories. I feel like we have made a lot of progress though, however this project is to large for both of us to do alone.

Help in anyway is appreciated.

I was a resident in Brentwood NY and there is a terrible hoarder house on the corner of charter oaks street in brentwood ny with a sick couple that needs help. The house smells like dead animals and there are broken windows and things piled to the ceiling. Please help

I have a neighbor that is an extreme hoarder. Recently I observed a few dozen large rats coming in and out of her home through the siding and burrows. Rats are large. All of her windows are covered with sheets or newspaper. Her three cars are completely full. She has many cats and dogs inside the house and four outside all year round. She needs help. Located in New Middletown, Ohio.

Situation in homestead Florida home with worst hoarding case that I have ever seen. Please contact me directly for photos and video. There are actually two homes. One in Hialeah and the larger home in homestead. I would like this disorder to gain greater recognition and compassion.

Hi my name is Kimberly 
I'm writing to see if there is anyway that my mother can get help . She is 53 years old and is currently going to dialysis n has kidney failure she has 3 dogs whom she won't let go of nor wants to put them outside, the home is infested with roaches n mices. She also has the habit to pile up so many papers that are unneeded from maybe even years back..my family n myself have tried helping her in trying to clean out the home by throwing unnecessary things like papers n clothing even boxes full of things but she's seems to stop us from throwing them away .I don't know how else to help her the house is getting worse with all the piling up if things n mices running around n roaches getting on the food n everywhere else please help us out we are afraid of her getting more sick of the contamination!

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I'm caught in the middle of a painful over whelming situation. A friend has serious mental issues & has lost access to his "living" space. I am the court assigned mediator between he & the landlord and his friends aren't allowed because of their already breaking the restraining order. I have been working almost full time, as heat will allow, for 3 weeks. I have emptied 1/2 of an articulated bus & made a path in a full size bus. Mounds of trash are stacking up. There is also still a camper that I've gotten clothes out that he requested. I have moved two stacks of clothes that reach over my head and date back as far as the 1970s out of a van that is also involved. I have moved hundreds of record albums, CDs, DVDs, and video tapes, and bags and bags of other clothes and an entire music studio. I still have a urine soaked sleeping area that police officers were too grossed out to search. I should have contacted you 1st, but I thought I could handle it. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me, I just don't know where else to turn.

I am a hoarder. My house has become nothing but a pathway to get from room to room and two rooms are extra and so loaded I can not enter anymore. Would love the opportunity to get some help. I have realized that as we are older ( I am 62 and my husband soon will be 69 with MS) if something happens to either of us paramedics could not even get in to us. There is some things that need replaced in the house that I can not even get to to get done. So we make do which is not what I use to do. I was always a clutterer but it is now out of hand. Can you help?

Hi Sierra 🙂
Sorry, but unless your Grandmother wants her home cleared out there is really nothing you can do.
If you report her to adult protective services or other city agency she could lose her home.
If you do a clean out without her permission you stand to lose the relationship with her and your mother.
A good book for you to read is called "Digging Out".
It can help you to understand the hoarding disorder.
You are most welcome to read and post on this message board and tonight at 5:00pm PST there is an ONLINE SUPPORT GROUP.
Just click on the red link to the right here and join us.

Hi my name is Sierra. My grandma was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and recently she was in a car accident where she was house bound at a relatives house well I came up to visit and stay with her at her own home till she gets better well sadly when I got here I realized there was no where for me to step or walk for that matter unless it was on her belongings if that is what they're called well I started to think that this was hazardous not only for her but for myself as well. It is a two story house in Ohio plus a basement which she calls hers scavenger room when she gets bored she likes to hunt down there for a project of some sort or something to do. The other day I went down to the basement and I noticed that is where her shower is the only problem no water runs down there cus the pipes are covered with "JUNK" this is bad health bad hygiene and frankly it's just BAD. I'm here for almost another month I don't know what to do. And that isn't even the worst part my mother is getting the same stage we have two storage warehouse filled and apt is starting to get full as well my mother comes up to my grandmas to visit in a couple weeks and my mother doesn't want me getting rid of anything cus she will want it she said this stuff needs to go please help send me answers thank you a fan of the show- Sierra

Hi my name is Sierra. My grandma was diagnosed with Alzheimer's and recently she was in a car accident where she was house bound at a relatives house well I came up to visit and stay with her at her own home till she gets better well sadly when I got here I realized there was no where for me to step or walk for that matter unless it was on her belongings if that is what they're called well I started to think that this was hazardous not only for her but for myself as well. It is a two story house in Ohio plus a basement which she calls hers scavenger room when she gets bored she likes to hunt down there for a project of some sort or something to do. The other day I went down to the basement and I noticed that is where her shower is the only problem no water runs down there cus the pipes are covered with "JUNK" this is bad health bad hygiene and frankly it's just BAD. I'm here for almost another month I don't know what to do. And that isn't even the worst part my mother is getting the same stage we have two storage warehouse filled and apt is starting to get full as well my mother comes up to my grandmas to visit in a couple weeks and my mother doesn't want me getting rid of anything cus she will want it she said this stuff needs to go please help send me answers thank you a fan of the show- Sierra

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My name is Matt and I have lived next to two sweet old people for my entire life. Tammy and Jack are very sweet and I always used to go over to their house to play. Just today since jack is 99 and his wife Tammy is close to the same age I went to help carry Jack into the car because Tammy is too tiny and Jack couldn't stand. When I entered the house the stench of cat and dog feces engulfed the house. There is only 1 narrow walk way from the bedroom to the door. Every room is piled up with different debree and Jack seems to be getting ill almost all the time. I didn't realize that a beloved childhood second home had become a hoard of sickness and mold for such loving people who treat me like a second son. The amount of pets they have to take car of by themselves is ridiculous at their age. They keep around 4 to 6 stray cats and 2 dogs from what I have seen who seem very ill and sickly. the house has become inhabitable for someone like Jack with so many illnesses and having to go in and out of the hospital. I just want to help them so badly and I know Hoarders can. There is no way to express the heartbreak I felt when I went into the house 8 years later only to see it in shambles and for people I love to be living basically in a dumpster. It has gotten out of control and I don't think they even realize they are sleeping in cat feces and on old newspapers. This is no place to live for someone like Jack and I just want the last years of his life to be spent with space and not by plaguing viruses and infections because the cleanliness of the house has become so overwhelming. If you could help these people it would mean the world to me. Thanks for the opportunity and hope to hear back.

I am trying to help a friend who is a hoarder. She is disabled and is currently in the hospital. She will never get to come home if something isn't done to help her. We have been friends over 45 years and her hoarding has gotten worse and worse. She sleeps in her car sometimes as there is no room. it is more filth and trash than anything else. Everything in there sticks so bad. She won't hardly let anyone come in. Now out of desperation she is trying to get someone to help her so she can go home......help. what do we do?

I am a 40 year old newlywed of a year and a half. I have an eight year old step daughter and a three month old son, as well as an 18 year old son that just moved in with me.
I have struggled with clutter and hoarding all of my life due to a traumatic childhood.
When my oldest son was about 12, After a friend threatened to call child protective services, I had to send him to live with his father because the hoarding was so bad there was broken glass on the floor etc. (The divorce was partly because of my hoarding)I then did everything I could to get it under control. I never really did, but things became at least passable.
It was very hard to date and find love, but I finally did. Now that I am married, I am finding the houseful of people too hard to control so it's all getting back to the way it was. My husband is too overwhelmed with being the only supporter of our family and most of what housework he can find time for but it's too much.
In addition, my mother is a rapidly-declining victim of Alzheimer's and her husband has to drop her off at my house once a week, soon to be more days, while he works. She keeps wandering around picking at things because she feels so bad for me and wants to help, but she can't. I'm crying as I write this because I'm so sad for her.
The worst part is we are in a contentious custody battle with his ex-wife over his daughter. We don't want to lose her and I don't want the baby to get hurt when he starts crawling.
Please help. We tried to look into paying someone but the money just isn't there.
I wish I could just roll up my sleeves and do it because I'm ready to stay on top of it with the help of therapy, if only it were clean. But, I can't find time in between taking care of a newborn and young child, and I'm scared I'll throw something valuable (to me) away.

I am writing to find out how to help a friend that has about 100 dogs. she spends most of her money trying to take care of them but she is crippled and in a wheel chair and can not do this herself. she is social security age.
another friend has been helping her but he is not in the best of heath and can not continue.

I have tried to talk to her about finding a good homes for them, they are all pure breed astrailian shepards . when we met her she was convinced some one was poising the dogs and killing them but since we have been going there we believe it was from the dirty water and their food being put on the ground and mice running wild eationg the food and drowning in the water and decaying in the water that was actually killing them she was unable to check on the dogs herself and the guy that was helping her before my friend strated wasn't not dumping the buckets and giving the animals clean water.
she is very irractional about the dogs she feels that is all she has to live for.
this is an educated woman that is very angry because she feel victionized by the doctors and says they have caused her to be crippled.
I have gotten her to my dr and he is helping her with pain managemntso she is somewhat improved but not enough to the reality . but the only solituion i see is it is a must she get rid of the dog and the state has been there many times and done nothing.
I think it is because the county is very poor and doesn;t want to foot the bill for the rescue and responsibility for the dogs or her/ she does have a few inside cats about 7 and she was out of her house ( mobile home) for almost a year because she had no water or the clutter and cat feceas was so bad you couldn;t get in. my friend has spent 2 months out ther trying to clean the place up and he has resored her water and made pathways threw the home but there is so much that needs to be done I have some pictures I can send if u like.
this is in n.w. okla I think she is living in a fanesty world all she talks about is going to france to get good medical service and be happy b ut she thinks she can take the dogs with her.
I can not make her realize this is not feasable.
if you want to call me my name is donna please if you can't help her tell me what I might do to get her help. she is in a deserate situation

thank you donna desert_snowbird2001@yahoo.com