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Just to clarify the lecture by Tom will be on Sunday, March 24, 2024 at 2pm at the Christian Science Church, 235 Scarborough St., Hartford. All are welcome and it is free to the public.
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Watching an episode tonite, where the hoarder is making great strides, while Doc-Boy is frustrated that she IS doing so well. In HUSXmind, she's supposed to be a head case, and she really is not. She just needs to ckwar her house, and for him to SHUT UP!!!
Watching an episode of HOARDERS can be reality motivation to maintain a clean and clutter free home..No one has addressed how people will hoard their cars, there's only room enough for the driver to squeeze in..Open the car door and items roll out onto the ground..
Thanks I tried to help my friend but he wouldn’t let go of 10 year old Macdonald’s paper used to wrap hamburger . Literally garbage! But don’t let it go to waste! One could wrap something in it! When I mentioned germs I was laughed at and called a germaphobe!😂
It seems logical that if there's such a big connection between ADHD and hoarding, that if you knew someone had ADHD, prescribing medicine for that would probably help the hoarding
This guy David, is absolutely a joke! First of all we don't need a play by the play of hoarding and what it is a simple quick explanation will suffice. He also puts hoarders down and belittles them! He is the worst on hoarders too! His license should be revoked. I am a hoarder and after I am exposed to him I actually feel like scum. Other therapists find ways to bring up the personal problems and address them in a kind way. Pay attention to his intro, he talks about the weather in a negative light which is fine, he ends on it though, most uplifting individuals who mean well and are here for good reasons, they may say something like that weather really is having a mind of it's own today, welcome and so thankful you all have made it here safe! Instead this horrible therapist says positively then a negative leaving an individual feeling entirely bad after their encounter with this guy. Pay attention he says a lot of good things but always ends speaking of in negative context therefore not being a success at his job he winds up leaving others feeling less than when they come into a session with him I really think he needs new training or get a new job, he is not helping hoarders.
If anyone was wondering about this -- I could share what it feels like for me. _When I'm in that mindset_ it's like a sudden wave of euphoria that sweeps over me. It's not sexual (for me) but it feels almost electric...like a full body orgasm that radiates from within me. It feeds this deep part of my soul that's always starving, angry and feral. _When I'm in that mindset_ I see my prey as my food to play with as I like and throw away when there's nothing left. If feels like a demonic game and how I do love games. I know I shouldn't...and I feel like a monster for it...but I've felt this way since I was a kid. It honestly feels 100% natural and for better or worse...it's part of who I am inside. For me it's about breaking a creature of its will to live, hearing peoples primal screams, the energy of panic due to helplessness and getting to show something a whole new world of hell in which to burn in. It's like an ego game I play with myself to see _just how bad_ bad can really get. For me -- this ONLY applies to people/things that I feel compelled to play a fun little game with and that deserves to be fundamentally destroyed. I just want to bath in extreme moments of trauma and devour the light from within them -- because even just the sound of torture and the bitter taste of their suffering is divine; like taking spiritual ecstasy. _I'm not religious...but you might even say those moments of inhuman brutality are like a "religious experience" for me...because that's honestly what sadism feels like for me._
Since you speaks for a living, use this technique to take the ums and ahs out of your speach. If you count them they’re in the hundreds on this video. Would be a good proof of concepts and you would sound more credible.
There are people who are avid collectors that have very organized, catalogued, and controlled collections without the hint hoarding. The difference is drastic and obvious. The instant it becomes a health hazard to the person or neighbors it's a mental illness. Otherwise it's just a personal problem. Bugs, rodents, animal feces, fire hazards, literal 'trash' collecting like piles and piles of 'recyclables,' That's the indication. The key is health hazard. That is when it has become obvious that the person has simply lost control of the situation and there should be outside force involved such as the department of health. This behavior is absolutely unacceptable it should be made clear to the individual that THEIR BEHAVIOR IS THE PROBLEM. Their choice to behave in this manner is the issue. They must be told in absolutely clear terms that their behavior is unacceptable and that it will change or their house will be bulldozed and they'll be sent the bill by the city. You cannot 'talk them out of it.' You cannot sit there and sort through it. They will tunnel vision into absurdity. They will literally try to sort through individual pennies at the bottom of the junk drawer if you let them. You have to punish the behavior instantly and immediately every time they try to 'sort stuff' and the city must be involved. AND AT NO TIME should it ever even be considered that this is acceptable, or there is a compromise available. Or they'll do it again. The existence of THE PILE is the indicator that they have chosen not to change their behavior. And they must be told this in absolutely clear terms while THE PILE is being thrown into the trash. And then you tell them if we have to come back, if we see THE PILE again, we'll bulldoze the house. Part of being a person is reconciling the difference between the outcome our actions produce, and the outcome we want our actions to produce. That is something that all people must come to terms with... even hoarders.
Easiest thing is to just remove dust and dirt. Even hoarders can classify dust and dirt as trash, and remove what you already know is definitely trash but have been avoiding removing it.
but it may adaptive in the form preserving emotional and executive function mental energy.. if you leave clothing on the floor, you are saving mental energy of putting it into a more proper place so you can have mental energy to do other things.
This is the most useful lecture about understanding and diagnosising the hoarding problem. The first 6 minutes is introduction. Skip until David F. Tolin speaks at about 6 minutes in. We hoarders are not trying to annoy you. Please listen to the lecture and understand how to deal with family members.
I agree as a person suffering with trauma related hoarding I found this talk to be very helpful indeed . I started clearing out in 2023 . What I am finding is the person who created the problem cannot tackle and resolve the problem alone . I have been trying to for the last 6 months but without any support at all I am still buying acquiring things grrr although not to the extent I was b4 I started clearing out. I will definitely take on board advice in this video and print out the questions and put them up in the house to try steer me keep me on tack. Thank for heads up to skip first 6 mins 🙂
6:38 30:10 . cognitive behavioral therapy might help. 36:06 Develop discrepancy - Are your actions congruent with what you want ? Are your actions creating a life / or a home etc that is the way you want it to be ? 50:40. ABOUT NOT WASTING THINGS : 1:08:50. Possible abnormality in chromosome # 14. .1:13:10 What if they ask you to sell things for them ? 1:14:56. How to help children. 1:15:41. What about an elderly parent ?
Talk isn’t for hoarders, rather the talk is on educating those involved with individuals that hoard. I wonder has there every been done a study on how long it takes family or friends to recognize hoarding as a disease and to become knowledgeable on hoarding and what works and what doesn’t work, when trying to help. It’s taken me years.
@@Hfsdhjf no it's emotional from past traumatic events. ie from having nothing as a youth or have been in war time when stuff was not available so you traded or just kept little stuff to reuse it. It's not an emotional deficit like you're implying.
What if dependant children are living in the hoarder's home? Do they have to wait for child services to remove them, or can other family members take action beforehand? It's horrible when children have to grow up in such conditions!
Go help the person instead of making more problems for the person with involvement of authorities. What physical thing have you done for or with the person to help them out of the situation? When a person is saying they are alright I will handle it. They are not alright and they need your help in person.
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Hoarders are narcissistic indeed! They are filthy and have their children and animals in harms way all the time! They always ask for money when they are broke from the five storage lockers they have at $100 a month each and can’t pay their car payment! I got burnt once! After that I called the Village and let them take over. They found rats in the kitchen and there were small children in the house. Mother didn’t care. The house was worth $500,000.00
My mother had a panic attack when we tried to help her you know she's elderly and we did everything we could to help her she has compulsive personality disorder and she's 86 I was watching something about elder adults that are orders and she starts hoarding in her forties her forties and it really affected us we did everything we could but she fights against everything and everything and she's had accidents and falls And so it concerns us but she fights every tooth and nail she wants to be in total control and it's really hard and it affects us a lot
WOW! very good interview! perhaps as someone who's a lit professor AND also from the continent - there were insights that seem to have driven to the heart of the writer's work! beautiful! so intelligent an interview!
