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An amazing woman, my mom!

Excelllent - speaker did explain what is being shown. The story about woman at the beginning husband left how could children be allowed to stay? I am compassionate but if she is not willing to accept help and do something about it will suffer consequences. If having her children taken away is not enough then I do not know what to say. I know someone her hoarding is so bad that toilet cannot be used. Uses a bottle for bathroom. Sleeps on a floor on top of clothes. Very bad situation

This problem is more widespread then we can imagine.

That's interesting about the doorbell dread & experiencing it later in life. Our home wasn't hoarded, but being a lg family it got messy quickly. Always the 15 min scramble for surprise visitors. As an adult, i still dread someone saying they want to visit. I'm not a hoarder, but i want everything to be pristine when someone comes over or knocks on the door.🥴

The idea of having fellow hoarders go to see the difficult cases and talk to them as peers is not so new at all. It has, besides the spiritual element, remained as the fundamental principle of AA and any other 12-step programme (such as Clutterers Anonymous) for almost 100 years now ;-)

Why can't we see any of his slide show?!???

This is very informative and just a pleasure to learn from this man. Mr. Frost, an amazing quality you have is your empathy and compassion, your genuine willingness to listen and learn from your patients. God Bless You.

Changed the speed in settings! 1.5 Much easier to listen to with my ADD. Life changing hack to listening to important, helpful information for me!

At 1:16:00 I think that the DSM should alter the language to say that criteria should be collecting items that have no use for the person doing the collecting. I have a friend who is collecting more things than their home can hold, but all of the things are in great condition with excellent possible use for someone else, just not for my friend. It's frustrating for her to go into the charity shop and see brand new high quality and expensive baby clothes with tags still on them that cost 10 pence and then not buy them. My friend has a therapist but all they ever seem to do is listen to her talk about her anxiety and prescribe her pills for it. I don't think they've ever talked about her collecting. Of course I'm not a therapist of any kind much less an expert in collecting but I am working to convince her to not feel upset about passing on these purchases. By not purchasing them she is enabling someone else who actually can use them right now to benefit from them. If she buys them they will end up carefully organized in a box never to be seen again.

I'm hoping that my comment will be seen by someone who is working on managing any hoarding instincts. I grew up with someone who has the opposite of hoarding instincts. This person would get overwhelmed with life and feel "cluttered" in the home and so would impulsively throw away photo albums. Or our only set of dishes or flatware. Yes, a garage filled with magazines is not good, but this person would throw away the 3 new ones in the guest bedroom that were meant to give reading material to people staying over for the weekend. What I am saying is that you may feel that you are on an extreme end of a spectrum, but don't let people like the UK show Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners make you feel that you need to go to the other extreme end. It is likely that your home will never look like a Pintrest pic. Shoot for keeping each room use-able for its intended purpose and for disinfecting every hard non-porous surface in the kitchen and bath once a week. If you can do that, you are fine. If you want to go past that, great! But that's up to you. I special order cleaning products meant for surgical wards so some might call me a clean freak but my home like almost every home has one messy room (for me it's the garage). The next level would be to keep a parlor or sitting room clean (whatever room is closest to the front door) clean and tidy as priority so that you can have pop-by guests and not feel judged. Your friends and family might have no understanding of what you're dealing with and they might be assuming that you're just lazy. So anyone who wants to be a major part of your life will probably need therapy just like you will need. For friends, You may wish to refer them to videos like this.

Such an incredibly effective public speaker

Adults don't like kids in the building its unsafe, rowdy youth bring in drugs and disturbing the tenants, breaking and entering homes. This place is dangerous

The Seinfeld shirt story repeats itself at every single fan convention for anything, everywhere in the world. Like you say, we all seek those kinds of connections to some degree.

The problem is sometimes its good shit. 34:20 insightful

It's a symptom of our society. Consumerism. Lonely people who don't have much of a life otherwise. Abandoned and Alone, clutching onto the only jolly they cam get, buying/acquiring things

DONT YOU TOUCH THAT! DONT YOU FUCKING TOUCH THAT! LOOK, I JUST NEED THAT OKAY. I NEEED THAT.

Perhaps grief counseling would help....since letting go is a major problem.

Excellent. Really Interesting and informative. Thanks. If you have a couple of hours I recommend you listen especially if you really want to understand what's going on with a person who has this issue. If you can only listen to one lecture on this topic, this is the lecture to listen to.

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OMG! I am cleaning and throwing away stuff right now! he is talking about me!! Thank u for this video!!

What awesome work this is! Finally, the community helping the community. SO glad to see it.

Nature of attachments to things 27:32 Procrastination 43:08 Essentialism 50:36 Animal hoarding and social anxiety 1:02:55 Diagnosis of hoarding 1:07:11 Not OCD 1:11:51 Depression 1:20:50 Comorbidity 1:21:22

I'm no professor, but 'Mr hunter-gatherer' gives more insight than credited. Hoarding shit illuminates sickness in society. Medieval house or African hut is made of shit, twigs and leaves. Food is berries foraged, bones become needles and tools. Issue is seeking comfort in primordial behaviours but Profs offer conforming to sick modern society. What is landfill but a disgusting pile of shit over fields and polluting environment.

OMG, The lecture is literally great to clean up to!

Seriously I think the stories allow a much better understanding of what we should be doing with patients. I think the stories are more important

I wonder if in latinamerica hoarding is less frequent because of the culture or the extremely low income

Thabks for helping me understand myself lol it makes it easier to make changes when you truly understand how your brains ticking making sense of the chaos in our mind.

Been watching this video in 15 minute segments for a month. I have to pause because I have to take out the trash I picked up while listening to it.

Congratulations! Well done. Amanda certainly shows you love what you do.

Awesome!

Thank you for helping me face the truth in my own issues. while listening to your seminar I've cleared the table chairs and floor in our kitchen. I hope you know how valuable you are. For this i Thank you.

As soon as he said toilet paper tubes in the crack next to the frig I knew what they were for...

Great info! I took notes. Hope I end up making use of my notes and hope they don't end up lost in a pile of papers! I'd really love to see more groups spring up like the Buried in Treasures Workshop. Would love to be instrumental in seeing these get started in my area!! ❤

I have filled my house with treasures but these treasures are the bars to my prison.

As a social worker I respect his topic and lecture, I feel he could have been more thorough in his topic by having less stories and more visual on his PowerPoint.

I keep a lot of souvenirs from holidays & trips to various places. These objects connect me to those trips & remind me of them. I don't think that's particularly strange or abnormal behaviour?

How can someone dislike such a good lecture ?!!?

1:40:30 interesting insight worth reflecting on. Thank you

Of course there's an association with income. Rich people can afford more real estate for storage of the stuff they keep. When you have five homes, they look less cluttered than a small apartment, no matter how much you have.

Minimalisim is fashionable, and minimalists think everyone who has more stuff than them is a hoarder. Be careful to differentiate between someone who has more stuff than YOU feel comfortable with, and someone who has a disorder that endangers them and their home.

The best therapy is to take a hoarder to another hoarders home and let them criticize and solve it, making changes to clean it up 2 hours as a swap and a video of each to see afterward. even if it is tossed they pre agree to let it happen. Just agreed worhless stuff by 2 thrird parties. All general newpapers magazines and containers and junk get no rescue.

I cannot let myself gather the empathy for hoarders in my life and family. They are truly a burden liken to a person in a wheelchair, with perhaps no legs and still driven to buy shoes. I see some things as good, but he is paid well enough to be sympathetic, for us however we have to grovel and undermine are own lives. It is not a fair balance at all. I have had my fill of hoarders for over 30 years. Never turns around and contamintes everyone around them. It is like allowing a drug addict to shoot heroin while you are making them lunch and cleaning their mess. How stupid we must be. They have resources, they get others to enable them. Do we see redemption in mental disorders of child abusers, or killers. What we care to do with our lives, is up to us. We are not god and savoir if we become trapped in this web. We all must be strong and careful but not enabling or cruel. The word no is it.

The best lecture on hoarding I have heard. Thank you. I downloaded STUFF from my LIBBY account (free library books online)...Also got Children of Hoarders.

Hoarding is so often diagnosed too late to really make a difference. Because so little is known about it, and how to intervene in it. It's considered shameful, purposeful, morally wrong, and everyone involved tends to hide it out of embarrassment. And many hoarders are angry, depressed and get extremely agitated and anxious when anyone tries to do anything about it, so they get very isolated, and push people away.

Dr. Frost's books have been very helpful to us in helping someone clear out a hoard. I highly recommend them to anyone involved with a hoarder, and dealing with hoarding.

It's now an official diagnosis. Meaning that once a week Therapy might be covered by health insurance.

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How does fresh air come into the building in all seasons? If it is air tight, how does air circulate in the units and throughout the building?

This past December, I lost my domestic partner to late stage liver cancer, which we did not know he had. In the last 3 years of his life, he liked to go thrifting and shop. He brought home lots of clothes he got for 69 cents, and other little trinkets and "stuff". Some useful, like tools, but a lot of other useless items. I started to see piles of "stuff" grow in my living room dining room, and saw our basement and upstairs guest bedroom get covered with these objects. He never used a lot of expensive items he "thought" he would use, like a bike custom built that was over 3 grand. He rode it down the alley ONCE. (he was a bike commuter in his youth). There are skeletons of bike parts, and other things he used to use, just sitting there. I have so sell our house, and downsize, and I have Estate sales folks coming for our antiques and other collectibles. They were amazed at the sheer amount of cool things he liked, but he never used them, he just "had" them. Sitting there in piles. He also had Asperger's syndrome, so that might have had something to do with things. For instance, when he had stints put in his heart due to blockage, he had to give up smoking cigarettes and switched to cigars. When you have cigars, then you should store them in humidors. Well he didnt' have 2 or 3, he had 30 to 40 of them. That is how things get "collected". And then you see a stack of things and wonder how it got this way. I myself have NEVER lived this way, and for the most part of our domestic relationship, we did not live like this. We had a clean house, cozy and decorated nicely. It suited our tastes and likes. But then, the piles and purchases occured. Now, I had to call a Junk/hoarding removal service because this goes WAY beyond me throwing stuff out to the garbage. There is not enough garbage space in our system to absorb and clean the way it needs to be cleaned out. I also need brawny arms to help me out, as I had a stroke after his passing, and I am 60, so I am a Senior. I need help. I had a quote by a hauler that it would cost between 5 and 6 thousand dollars. This is not a little thing and could cost more, if I needed more help cleaning out Which I do, but I have to start with the basement, and our garage, so to use that area as a "staging area" to put things waiting for Salvation Army to come pick up after the Covid lock down ends. If you have someone who is starting to hoard, GET HELP IMMEDIATELY. DO NOT WAIT like I did. I had an illness right before this got bad, and I almost died from a random infection. (MRSA in my leg). He started collecting about then. Do not let them build piles because that is where it starts. It is not healthy, it ruins your home and it's value, and your furniture. It invites pests. (we did not hoard food). It also makes your home unusable, and you don't want family and friends over to judge you. It's over for me, and that is an abuse I will never tolerate again. I was never asked "do YOU want to live like this?" Do YOU want to put your health and sanity at risk? Do you want to make your life miseable? I will never let anyone do this to me again. EVER.