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Computers. fearing eviction, he calls in the experts. the disaster masters. >> he felt that the landlord was about to create an action and eviction. he felt the pressure. >> 2005. ron and melissa 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...

You do with stuff or what stuff stays and what stuff goes. so its been stressful. >> dr. samantha morrison, a licensed psychologist, specializes in compulsive hoarding. >> by definition it includes three components. theres the acquisition or failure to discard a large number of possessions. an inability to use your home for its intended purposes due to the clutter. the third part of it is significant distress or impairment in your life. >> jessica gives our cameras a revealing look inside the ho...

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 looking for stocks and bonds and...

>> 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 happen. 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...

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 experiencing, what theyre experiencing and if i cant relate, offering my own support. you know, you can get through this. it will be okay. >> as the...

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 dead opossum or if you were looking at just old food. i mean, it was just unrecognizable. >> they realize that years of dropping food on to the floor had actua...

>> 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 beaten down, they feel very hopeless and overwhelmed, both anxious and depressed. >> this is hoarding. >> the removal of clothes and debris takes schaeffer one month to complete. >> i filled up four 30-yard dumpsters. and i think i filled over 500 garbage bags to the top about the biggest bags they make. theres nothing that...

But for the most part its all office supplies or meant to be in her office. >> this is the pink room. originally it was my nieces bedroom. if n it are her bed, toys, clothes and my mother has filled it with soft textured items. blanket, jacket, comforters, clothes, pom poms and still my nieces toys as well as other things that shes bought for my niece to play with. its pink because that was the color my niece picked for the room when she was a little girl. at one point this room was completely c...

Seems easy, clean it up. but with a hoarder, its just not that simple. >> you dont move stuff. she would be very hurt, first of all, shed be angry, shed be hurt at the disrespect to her and her things. shed be ashamed. it would be kind of like her worst fears coming true right then and there. it would just make the problem worse because it would make her more defensive of everything else. and would make her fight harder to keep it. >> dr. morrison has not treated jessicas mother but has dealt wi...

Day-to-day life mentally draining and physically exhausting. >> it takes ten times more work and effort to do simple things than it should take, to take a shower, you have to get all your stuff from your bedroom, make sure you have your flip flops on, step over your baby gate, walk to the other end of the house. i dont walk around barefoot. i dont want stuff on my feet. it just flat-out grosses me out. to cook anything, i have to go to my fridge in my room, get everything i needed, get all my ut...