Posted by Dinah on April 9, 2007, at 17:45:16
In reply to Hoarding, posted by Toph on April 9, 2007, at 16:11:15
Boy, can I relate. I took pictures once for my therapist of my mother's house. There are some rooms (most rooms) that you can't even walk in. At all. Even if you hop.
Now that Katrina flooded her house, it's even more urgent, because if she doesn't clear the clutter enough to reach the walls to gut the house by the end of the month, her church won't be able to help her rebuild. Not even mentioning the mold, etc.
It's unbelievable. She's having my uncle box up paperback books that were under flood water because she can't throw them away until she writes down the title. She's having him box up twenty year old mail order catalogs.
And there's nothing at all I can do. I even did try to turn her in several times (including when the social worker came to the house for my dad), and the local government won't do anything.
It's hard for me to think of it as a disorder, and maybe especially hard to think of it as OCD, since I associate that with a whole different set of symptoms (contradictory symptoms at that).
poster:Dinah
thread:748492
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/psycho/20070406/msgs/748511.html