Hoarders

This show fascinates me! I can't wrap my head around how so many people can suffer from this disease and how they can live in these environments. I don't understand how the Doctors and cleaning crews could go in the houses and do interviews because I can ONLY imagine how bad it must smell!!!

Compulsive hoarding (or pathological hoarding or disposophobia)^[1] is the excessive acquisition of possessions (and failure to use or discard them), even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary. Compulsive hoarding impairs mobility and interferes with basic activities, including cooking, cleaning, showering, and sleeping. A person who engages in compulsive hoarding is commonly said to be a "pack rat", in reference to that animal's characteristic hoarding.

It is not clear whether compulsive hoarding is an isolated disorder, or rather a symptom of another condition, such as obsessive-compulsive disorder.^[2] 

^{( source: Wikipedia)}