Programme on BBC

[Rory]

This is a programme on the BBC so probably not available outside the UK unless you are every clever in using the web.

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b013nhfq/My_Hoarder_Mum_and_Me/

Interesting and I am glad I did not have children to 'help' me and was able to do things in my own time.

[def6]

Thank you Rory...I can't wait until I can see these videos and channel 4 across the pond over here. I hope it's soon

[CourageouslyLion SeeksSerenity]

You are correct that the website won't let people in USA watch it.

However I did find this out by googling ...
There is a BBC presenter who produced/wrote/narrated the show.
Her name is Jasmine Harman.
The show is about her attempts to unhoard her own mother's home,
so that her 12-year-old brother can return home to live.

Full description here:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b013nhfq


Here is a review of the show in the Telegraph newspaper
which gives more details about what it's about.
However, the reviewer clearly doesn't really understand hoarding.
www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/8704979/My-Hoarder-Mum-and-Me-BBC-One-review.html


Here is quick review on a personal blog.
It makes an interesting comment about usefulness of objects
(in the mind of the hoarder on the show)
questioning-answers.blogspot.com/2011/08/hoarding.html

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Back to the writer/producer/narrator of the show
who is the daughter of the hoarder on the show ...
Her name is Jasmine Harman and she has now
just started a website with resources for hoarders ...
www.helpforhoarders.co.uk
She says she's keeping it "simple, uncluttered, and unclinical".

So therefore, it's lacking a lot of the information.

She has some links to a few resources ...
... including Children of Hoarders ...
but not to
www.ocfoundation.org/hoarding/
which I think would be helpful.

Her website also has a forum which is just a few days old.
(if you go to her main website at
www.helpforhoarders.co.uk
and look at menu on top,
and click on "share your experience", you'll be sent to the forum).

From the posts on this brandnew forum, it would appear that the posters found her site after googling her ... after they'd seen the show.

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[Rory]

Thanks CL so many issues arise.

How a condition is classified is confused with what it 'is'

Who has which problem?

[bigrae]

I watched the show and felt that the mom was not really allowed to express how she felt about the clear out, the adult children were able to tell of their frustration with their moms hoarding but her distress was not really explored.

Whilst I agree that she needed help, I wondered why the daughter wanted to do this so publicly .

There is an interest in hoarding in the U.K at the moment , many state that bringing this disorder into the public eye will enable people to seek help. I fear that it is a device to make reality shows that will chew vulnerable persons up and spit them out the other side. I for one would love some help but will not be anyones poster girl.

BigRae