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The experts. the disaster masters. >> he felt that the landlord was about to create an action and eviction. he felt the pressure. >> 2005. they head out to survey the scene. >> he welcomed us in and really said the magic words that fix it people love to hear, like ron and myself, which is will you please help me? please help me. >> and what they find shocks even a team of experienced professionals. >> this place was one word -- abysmal. you had to push the door open with your shoulder to get it ...

>> whats the odds of finding something like that in that mess. >> im 53" and it must have come up to my shoulder. a lot of times you see a path and there was no path. you didnt just walk in, you climbed in. it was an amazing amount of trash. >> because of the amount of debris, the living conditions are extremely dangerous. >> she was clearly in danger of having fire in that building. because when you live in a place like that, you have that kind of paper and you have all these extension cords un...

>> i started seeing reactions in myself that i couldnt understand. i was constantly throwing things of my own away and purging my own belongings. stuff i probably would have liked to have kept. and kind of like there has to be other people out here. there has to be someone whos talking about this. >> jessica finds great comfort online. shes an active member of the not for profit organization children of hoarders and corresponds with others for support. >> even just reading about other peoples ex...

She does a very good job. we can depend upon her. not, oh, my god. you know, have you seen -- oh, my god. >> jessicas mother says her hoarding tendencies can be tracked back to her college years but it isnt until the sudden death of her husband in 2001 that a tendency become a compulsion. >> went way over the edge. you do the grief counseling, you do all the things you think you should. sometimes it doesnt help. what i found was i would go to work and come home and just want to cocoon myself. i ...

But go inside and youll witness a shocking sight. rooms stuffed to the rafters with clutter and debris. >> its very, very chaotic and stressful. >> in california 27-year-old jessica, who asked that her last name not be revealed, lives with her mother, an admitted hoarder. >> i would describe it as bad. its not an environment thats comfortable to be in. >> after living on her own for more than a year, jessica moves back home to save money and help her mom with her worsening condition. the transit...

He loved tinkering on computers and taking them apart. >> just like everything. lunch containers, soda bottles, you name it. everything you can buy at the grocery store, you bring it home and it was all there. >> a lot of paperwork. people have a huge problem with what to do with paper. >> the crew begins carefully sifting through the debris room by room. >> we dont take the snow shovels and just haul the stuff into a trash can. we actually go through everything. were going through those papers ...

And that seems to be the biggest problem weve had with finding help. >> but without immediate answers, the hoarding continues. >> part of it and the feeling you fight against is the idea that, okay, this is mine. i bought this. i have the control over it. and now somebodys telling me that i need to get rid of this and i need to let go. it becomes an issue more of control than perhaps emotional attachment. >> i think its just the issue of letting it go. i think she feels that when she lets it go,...

Door and coming in to where the chair was is a pile of garbage. >> the whole living room was like a refrigerator from a horror flick. it was just unimaginable. the organic material came up about as high as the arms of the recliner. it was so packed that you could actually in midday see the steam coming out from the methane gas from all the organic material. >> this stuff was rotting. all right? creating heat. >> what i saw would make anybody want to vomit. you didnt know if you were looking at a...

Sometimes it doesnt help. what i found was i would go to work and come home and just want to cocoon myself. i just didnt want to deal with anything. >> in the cases of somebody, a spouse passing away, you have kind of two complicated issues because now youre more alone, youre more isolated and you fill things up with stuff. a lot of times people with compulsive hoarding dont trust their memory. theyre afraid theyre going to lose whatever association or connectedness to the individual that they l...

Here. yeah. that was the bathroom. >> the bathroom was completely filled with bags of stuff. so it wasnt usable. you could tell that she had finally just abandoned the house and just was using it for storage apparently now because there was no way that anyone could live in the house. >> no way, shape or form was it livable. >> if you have an entire house amassed with stuff from wall to wall, where do you even begin? what a lot of times happens is they sort of throw their hands up. they feel very...