There’s some that live in a full blown biohazard going to affect others so that’s the primary concern. There should definitely be some sort of follow up service to keep checking in on them but there’s just no funding/ resources that aren’t already overwhelmed with clients
@@youyoutobiopretty sure they are referring to the comment @DragonTamer31K above them, not yours I am not even British but that’s just not a funny “joke”, it’s just plain racist
@@Morgenstern11133 ive had cats my whole life and we never had bathroom accidents except on a couple of isolated occasions ( when Maxwell died his bowels evacuated pof course; and when honeybear ( who lived 20 years and 3 months, she had an upset stomach one time, and the other time was a couple days before she passed, she had an accident, but i always kept litter box clean and fresh, and kept a clean house, and weve never had any issues with potty accidents .
The "Creating Sacred Space with Feng Shui" book amid the clutter was the cherry on top for me 😂 also, she can afford a million bottles of vodka, but not puppy pads for her dog to crap on? Priorities people 🙄
12 months from now Paula will be back in the same position. I pray she can look outside her depression and appreciate the gift given to her strength to keep her home clean for that amazing pet that is worth the effort.
Great episode. Those cleaners should never have touched that toilet that was blocked with sewage. The whole bathroom needs to be replaced. I do not know much about small dogs but I wonder if George could be litter box trained like a cat.
I actually have a “litter box trained” Maltese. But it’s a special kind for dogs with a little grass patch. I wash the entire thing twice a week, I scoop the poop immediately and flush it down the toilet , and I sanitize it after he pees and after he poops every time in the meantime. We live many floors up in an apartment. We take him out once a day but he’s scared of the stairs and due to a disability it’s hard to take him out on a regular schedule, and I don’t want to make him hold it all day. He does really well but he started as a puppy.
As someone who faced these disorders as the first woman I can say that it's not an excuse for that mess. It's rather laziness or something else. And I feel sorry for the poor dog, it's very selfish of her to have a pet if she can't take proper care of it
@@michellebloch8970while that’s true if she can’t take care of an animal she shouldn’t have one. That dog wasn’t potty trained and/or was clearly never let outside much less taken on walks and was constantly having to walk around in its own filth and hers. There’s no excuse for that.
I just love these hardworking, dedicated and non-judgmental cleaning professionals,. Maxine is an amazing person! They all are. My heart goes out to the people whose lives get them to this stage. They could be right next door to us, and we might never know until it's too late.
@@Iwishiwasanyoneelse I was saying the same thing. I've seen other shows with people that are agoraphobic and, short of knocking them unconscious and taking them out, you couldn't get them to leave their living space. If she has agoraphobia it's SUPER mild.
That dog probably doesn't even know he's supposed to go outside for a BM. When he's outside, he probably holds it until he gets back in, where it feels right to go.
@@bethm8593yeah they make little toilets like a patch of grass you water and you can scoop poop off them like you would outside. He would need training to use it but she's mentally unwell she won't bother and it'll be the same again soon. Notice she laughed when he did it on the floor? If she was even remotely ever going to change she would have stopped then and there, cameras rolling and said "let me get that now!"
I feel so bad for Joyce. She reminds me of myself before I was properly medicated for my depression and ADHD, (though not to such an extreme degree). I would always buy art supplies and be SO excited to start a project, and then just...have no energy to do anything with it, so it would sit and collect dust. And then I'd buy more, and more, and that vicious cycle would continue ad infinitum. I hope she's doing much better.
If I was one of those people, I'd just cry my eyes out seeing the 'after.' These cleaners are truly doing such meaningful, life changing work. The only job that made me pause was Joyce with all the arts & crafts. She doesn't seem to get it, you have to throw the excess things out to be able to enjoy what you have. If she would have been more open, they could have cleaned her entire place and she could happily live there as a human, instead of just existing in this warehouse for all her boxes.
Hoarding really needs counseling before people ho in as sudden huge clean ups are traumatic for them. Thats why they still Hang on to rubbish when cleaners are there. Arts snd crafts bring things to a whole new level as there us a lot go store and creatives can use anything so another heart pain to get rid of. Rule for life: dont buy so much stuff ever. When you get older you have to chuck half of it away anyway
With addicition, there is always the Chance of relapse - and not umcommingly so. This does not mean the efford is fruitless … it sometimes needs more than one approach to „get clean“.
Why do the cleaners only have 3 days to clean the apartments and wouldn't it be better to paint and renovate the houses/flats straight away? They are often in a miserable state.
Anxiety and depression are not an excuse to live in filth! Poor dog. I know from wince I am speaking, if you realize that you have depression and anxiety that is half the battle and deal with it. To live in the unbelievable filth these cleaners deal with if well…unbelievable
Au fur et à mesure des vidéos , je suis époustouflée de voir qu il y ait tant de gens qui ne parviennent pas à prendre soin de leurs appartements . C est assez impressionnant quand même
J’ai partagé ma vie avec quelqu’un comme ça, passer derrière quelqu’un sans cesse est épuisant. Nous sommes séparés maintenant et bien sûr cela en est grandement responsable mais elle ne le comprendra jamais car elle ne le reconnaît pas (c’est reconnu comme maladie mentale actuellement).
Je me suis dit qu’ils avaient dû mettre les appartements en désordre comme ça intentionnellement pour créer une histoire sensationnelle pour l’épisode. Je peux pas du tout croire que quelqu’un vivrait comme ça par choix. Et oui, c’était par choix en dépit de la soi-disante « angoisse » dont ils souffrent
@@BabyBugBug pour ces personnes, vivre dans ces conditions ne les dérange pas. Mon ex-conjointe a emménagé dans une nouvelle maison et moi j’ai gardé notre maison. il m’a fallu des dizaines d’heures pour ranger et ex-mme a bien sûr mis le foutoir chez elle. Une chose assez dure à supporter c’est qu’elle disait qu’elle faisait tout et moi j’en fichais pas une alors que c’est l’inverse…
This episode was a real eye-opener. It's astonishing how quickly a situation like this can escalate. Kudos to the cleaners for their professionalism and dedication in tackling such a challenging task.
After watching the show Hoarders for years, these places aren't exactly surprising really.. I'd comment on the lady who has a dog that she obviously never takes outside, but I guess it's just a relief that the poor pooch isn't mummified under a pile of garbage or piece of furniture.. smh.. My mom was seriously mentally unstable and suffered numerous health issues for most of my life, and she would always end up creating similar deplorable living conditions if there wasn't someone living with her to make sure it didn't get like that, so I guess that's partly why I have a sort of understanding for some of these individuals.. some of these places are just absolutely beyond reproach and I have trouble understanding why they don't even attempt to get help for themselves to manage their mental health issues, but I don't like to stand in judgment of others when I don't fully know they're issues.. I pray for them all though ❤❤
I'm so sorry but I couldn't help but laugh when they said the first lady hadn't left her house for a year. I was like what's the problem then, she had plenty of time to clean 😂😂😂 When they had to shovel out that toilet I found myself not breathing through my nose 🤢
Not meaning to sound hard but I would have anxiety if I lived like that. Honestly, I would be sick & I wouldn't subject my animal to it either. Hope she can keep on it & stay clean.😮
I had a mate who would keep their pets indoor... always indoor!! So every now & then when I visit I'd notice the flooring was inching ever higher with laid newspaper 🏠🐕=💩 🤷♂️💬+📰 =🤢🤮
I hope the people in these shows are offered counseling and maintenance cleanings as well. They clearly have showed that they are not well enough to properly care for themselves and their spaces and without further ongoing help they will not be able to maintain the cleaned spaces
She looks like, but she is not. Appearances might be deceiving … can you always tell that someone is really sick (just think about cancer) by the looks of them?
@dontrah1838 take a pill or two like the rest of us that have depression and /or are bipolar. If that's not possible then don't bring an innocent animal into your filth.
when I had terrible depression and was being treated, I couldn’t get out of bed for hours, didn’t wash my hair and ate haphazardly. But I had a small child for whom I lived and did everything to make him happy-cleaned, cooked , played and bathed him, took him to classes. Here I see a woman who is simply stepping over her dog’s sh*t with her bare feet, instead of bending down and cleaning it up, it would have taken ten minutes. ok, still trash and things, but sh*t.. And how is she not ashamed to look into the eyes of these two women.
This is the show I like, it’s called how to clean your house, it’s about two ladies clean disgusting houses. The show was from 2004ish, I love that show. I do clean my house, like doing tiding in my room.
It’s not about being home and being lazy. These people suffer from extreme mental health conditions that seriously affect their ability to function on a day to day basis. Just because you have been able to keep your place clean with “depression” doesn’t mean everyone can
Dogs can be trained to use litter boxes just like cats. Especially with a dog that small there is no excuse for her letting him go all over the house the way he does. When my dogs got older and I was dealing with healing from some surgeries that went wrong I trained my dogs to use litter boxes well a small kiddie pool with litter in it. They actually were pretty easy to train as they wanted a spot to go that smells like outside. I used equine pine pellets as litter as it was cheaper than feline pine and you got alot more and it worked better too.
My cousin, when working uses those potty pads. Similar what nursing homes use under elderly people. You do need to throw away the soiled pads. Am guessing the lady wouldn't do it
Paula seriously need help in many areas of her life, she's looking at her apartment as more room to trash, George already marked his territory within 10-15 minutes 💩 Practically a waste of the ladies time cleaning without Paula getting help.
I hate to say this, but the lady needs to give up the dog-at *least* until she gets used to cleaning again and improves mentally. She’s not fit to be a pet owner in her current state. The animal is just going to crap all over the house again, like it always did, and she’s going to be too overwhelmed to clean it up. When this keeps happening and the novelty of the newly-cleaned house wears off, she’s going to be back to square one in a matter of months and feeling more hopeless than before. Unfortunately, the dog was probably the one thing keeping her halfway sane in spite of it making much of the mess. It’s a pretty sad situation for both of them.
Do they recycle in the UK? We recycle in the area of the US where I live and I'm getting anxiety from seeing how the cleaners are mixing the bottles and cans in the same garbage bag with regular garbage. They are doing a wonderful job, but I wish they would recycle and keep bottles and cans separate.
