Another good episode - both women had hit "bottom" and had intense reasons to be motivated.
The hope in Shannon's kids faces was the highlight for me.
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Posted 2 years ago #
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I'm amazed at what these professionals deal with. I think I would have to leave when these people have such emotional reactions like Julie did throughout the episode.
I felt bad for Shannon, could just be the editing, but it seemed like she was trying to get help and CPS and animal control were coming in and she felt lost and overwhelmed.
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I had a strong negative reaction to both women ... which may just reflect my own exhaustion. I had spent a week deep-cleaning the house and trying to get rid of yet more sewing clutter and THEN I watched the show.
I wanted Shannon to just START CLEANING instead of sitting around feeling hopeless; I felt that Julie's reaction to anything she disliked was to burst into tears and claim that she was irreparably damaged because of childhood abuse.
I'm aware that I sound like a hopeless grouch. "You kids today! I walked ten miles to school every day, uphill both ways, in the SNOW, and look how successful I am! If you can't do what I did, you're total wusses!"
I suppose I need to remind myself just how hopeless I am at losing weight :(
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Zora, we all have our Achilles heel! I can understand the lady who sits around and feels hopeless. That is sometimes me! I get such sensory overload, feel so overwhelmed, I think "Why even try?".
I can also understand the weight thing. We spend a lot of time trying to fill an emptiness that can't be filled. Just know that you are not alone!
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The more I watch the show the more and more aghast I am at the severe emotional pain that afflicts the people featured and the lack of any real intervention on their behalf. The problem isn't the mess, it's the pain. I wonder if there even is an in-patient option for them that would mirror treatment for drug addicts? It seems a much more compassionate and realistic way the show could help make a lasting difference. The "expose-then-shovel" approach is hardly helpful for them in the long-run and from an viewer standpoint, it's crass and boring.
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It's been my impression that all the participants are offered some kind of after-care therapy, and that a good percentage of the participants go for it. I haven't seen many of the episodes, however, because I don't have cable TV and I've been watching them online, where they don't post all of the shows. Maybe they don't address therapy at all in most of the episodes.
At the end of the Julie & Shannon episode, I remember it said that Shannon's family has chosen to go into therapy.
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Have you guys seen the digital tours on the website? This is the link to Julie's.
http://www.aetv.com/hoarders/digital-room/julie.jsp
In the middle of all that "rubble" there is clearly a lot of sentiment and beauty!
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I haven't seen Ep.5 but the first series of Hoarders is being broadcast here in Hong Kong (first episode tonight). I feel I will be rubber-necking somewhat but if people manage to get their lives in order and help others to recognise their own problems, it can't be all that bad. Can it?
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