Review: I really enjoyed this book.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 01 23, 2014
I am going to show this book to my mom and grandmother JEEZ!All joking aside, hoarding can be very serious for some people. My great grandmother had this hoarding disease way back before I think it was even labeled an illness. I remember as a little kid going to her house that my great grandfather built. It had dirt floors in most of the rooms and concrete in the living room. She had so much stuff hoarded in the back rooms it was literally scary to go back there and play. This book brought back some of those child hood memories.I thought the book gave a nice look into the hoarder and specific traits they may have. Heck I even have some of the symptoms of a hoarder according to the book which I am sure that some of them cross over into other types of ticks or compulsive disorders that everyone has.It is actually sad for those who are suffering from this in a major way like my great grandmother. The book talks about hoarders having many other related illnesses like attention deficit and bipolar and depression just to mention a few.My great grandmother had all those and more. This was before many of those illnesses were even defined.I remember her being very reclusive and almost agoraphobic. Well not almost! She was agoraphobic! She didn't really talk to us kids and stayed in her back room all the time. I was a small kid then and didn't understand but now I do.I would recommend this book to people who are not hoarders especially. As they may be the ones that have to help out family members who suffer from this.This book is not just for the extreme cases of this illness.