[ SECRET POST #2619 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2619 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes]


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03.
[Pushing Daisies]


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04.
[Dallas Buyers Club]


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05.
[Bravely Default]


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06.
[Fake & Kuroko no Basuke]


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07.
[Warehouse 13]


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08.
[Willem Dafoe]


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[Dexter]


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[Rooster Teeth]


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[Lost Girl]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I hope you get help, OP.

[(Anonymous)]

OP

...and, I was actually expecting this! I don't particularly want to. I'm happy as I am, and don't want to get rid of my stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah if you're happy and people around you are pretty happy, why the fuck should you change? There's a presumption of "fix the aberration" there. Some people like living out of a shoebox - are they necessarily needing help?

[(Anonymous)]

nayrt

Seriously. I think people who live in sterile, minimalist rooms where everything is beige, and there's a bookshelf but it has like two books about postmodern architecture and an empty vase on it, have a problem, but as long as they don't bother me about my piles of stuff, it's all good.

[(Anonymous)]

DA I know, right? Like, where do they put all their goddamn stuff? I'd bet good money that every house like that has a room somewhere crammed full of bits and pieces.

[(Anonymous)]

I'm pretty sure neither hoarders nor ...idk, overly sterile people?? are particularly healthy.

[(Anonymous)]

Oh you are, are you?

[(Anonymous)]

It's not that far-fetched a conclusion.

[(Anonymous)]

Ever been to a hoarder's house? And I mean no place to get out safely in case of fire, kitchen surfaces never been cleaned in years, every room filled to the ceiling hoarders? If you have, you wouldn't make such an asinine comment - "HDU suggest hoarding isn't just a perfect lifestyle choice" is just ignorant - or massively defensive.

OP isn't a 'hoarder', I'd put money on it - they probably just have a lot of stuff.

[(Anonymous)]

...there is a such thing as middle ground, you know.

[diet_poison]

was going to say this

[(Anonymous)]

Seriously - and it's where most people live!

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Okay, so I admit my initial comment comes off as patronising. To expand/qualify, if your hoarding is affecting other people in your life, animals, or your own health/ safety, I hope things change for you. Also, from my layman's understanding, anxiety and/or compulsive behaviour underlies a lot of hoarding, so if that is true for you I hope at some point that eases for you so you don't feel like you 'have' to keep the stuff you have, and can be content to just 'want' it.

But of course I don't know anything about your actual situation, so this is all general sentiment about the issue. I made my initial comment though because I live with a mild hoarder myself, and have a friend with a mother who is an extreme hoarder, so I have seen how hoarding can really detrimentally affect families and relationships, and how the hoarder in question can often live in denial of this.

As for reality TV shows about extreme hoarders, though I do find them occasionally morbidly fascinating but I agree that they're more modern freak show than helpful investigative reality TV.
(Though, on a tangential note, the documentary based on this story: http://www.surreymirror.co.uk/Westcott-hoarder-Richard-Wallace-inspires-local/story-16705900-detail/story.html was quite a heartwarming story though, but mainly because it exposed the hypocrisy of some of the village, and the crux of the story was when a neighbour decided to offer to help Richard clean up his garden - only if he wanted help - and the friendship the two men formed following that.)

[(Anonymous)]

Do you hoard food? My mother hoards food. Never hoard food. Trust me.

[(Anonymous)]

You mean like this?

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/177560

[(Anonymous)]

DA

That's like, non-level hoarding food. If the fridge still has enough space to be useable, it's fine. I think the anon above is referring to something much, much worse, and as you seem to be innocent I will keep you in ignorant bliss.

[(Anonymous)]

IDK, I helped clean out a tenant's refrigerator that was so overloaded that it was making this constant groaning hum. I don't think I'm ~that easily shocked.

[(Anonymous)]

Way late reply, but yes, I (the anon above) am referring to something several orders of magnitude worse. I've yet to see one of the "reality" shows get a true food hoarder situation sorted out.

[(Anonymous)]

No, I do not hoard food. I hoard objects because I have this thing where I emotionally relate to them. The longer I own it, the less I want to get rid of it, because that's how it works for me.

I had I time where I also kept things like shampoo bottles, but I'm trying to move away from that.


Food - don't care about it. I mean I like eating it, but I do not have an emotional relation to it.

It does bother me a lot if people throw away food (not sure if that's my upbringing or part of the hoarding) and I do sometimes end up taking leftovers, however I do actually just eat them, not stash them.

Anything that spoils, I will toss out.

[(Anonymous)]

You sound like you're keeping yourself fairly level-headed, anon, especially if you're honestly moving yourself away from keeping things like shampoo bottles.

I also just think that you need to keep a very close eye on your behavior so you can catch it if you start slipping into more unhealthy hoarding.

[eaten_by_bears]

I thought part of the definition of hoarding was that it had to be pathological. Like, if you have a lot of stuff but it's not causing any problems, you're not a hoarder.