executive living in an apartment filled with garbage, clothes and computers. fearing eviction, he calls in the experts. the disaster masters. he felt that the landlord was about to create an action and eviction. he felt the pressure. 2005. they head out to survey the scene. he welcomed us in and really said the magic words that fix it people love to hear, like ron and myself, which is will you please help me? please help me. and what they find shocks even a team of experienced professionals. this place was one word abysmal. you had to push the door open with your shoulder to get it open. then you walked around sideways like this to slip in. just get in. and from there, there was virtually everything, food, clothing, stuff, everywhere.
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your nostrils don t burn, your throat doesn t suddenly hurt. you don t feel like someone s sitting on your chest. with the house in such disorder, jessica finds day-to-day life mentally draining and physically exhausting. it takes ten times more work and effort to do simple things than it should take, to take a shower, you have to get all your stuff from your bedroom, make sure you have your flip flops on, step over your baby gate, walk to the other end of the house. i don t walk around barefoot. i don t want stuff on my feet. it just flat-out grosses me out. to cook anything, i have to go to my fridge in my room, get everything i needed, get all my utensils and bring it into the kitchen to prepare my food, then clean it and take it all back to my room. to sweep and mop, i have to do a quarter to a third of a room at a time. i have to move everything away from where i want to mop, which can take 45 minutes to an hour sometimes. mop, wait for it to dry, put it
all back and then do the next section. it s very exhausting and very stressful. to an outsider, the solution seems easy, clean it up. but with a hoarder, it s just not that simple. you don t move stuff. she would be very hurt, first of all, she d be angry, she d be hurt at the disrespect to her and her things. she d be ashamed. it would be kind of like her worst fears coming true right then and there. it would just make the problem worse because it would make her more defensive of everything else. and would make her fight harder to keep it. dr. morrison has not treated jessica s mother but has dealt with many similar cases. if you were to go into the home of someone who hoards and you were to clean out everything, not only would that make the person incredibly vulnerable and incredibly distressed, but it would not solve the problem and in fact the person would just rehorde and reclutter the home right away.
dishes, mail and everything you can imagine. as you moved into the kitchen, the kitchen was stacked with dishes and, you know, cooking utensils and pots and pans. the nastiest had to be the kitchen because there were a bunch of plates that they were used. they weren t washed. and they were stacked up and spoons and forks and pots and pans that were used and not washed. at one point during the survey lang loses ght of his friend rick. where are you at? we didn t see him back there at first. he was standing behind where probably the kitchen table would have been. i think the kitchen table was actually under all the stuff. it was up to the ceiling. i ve never seen anything like that before. let s move on to the living room. i think the worst room was probably the front room. the front room was the biggest room. that s the one that probably had the most stuff. piled as high as you could see, up to the ceiling. you had to walk across most of the two, three feet up in the