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The transition to such deplorable conditions takes a toll. >> it's been very difficult. i grew very accustomed to having kind of a minimalistic existence in my apartment. not having a lot of stuff. and being able to clean my apartment from top to bottom in maybe an hour and a half, where cleaning everything could take days or weeks or it's not an easy process. you don't have control over where you can move stuff or what you do with stuff or what stuff stays and what stuff goes. so it's been stressful. >> dr. samantha morrison, a licensed psychologist, specializes in compulsive hoarding. >> by ...

I think it was 20-something acres and there were a number of homes on the property. a number of folks living on the property. but each of these folks had upwards of ten animals in their particular living situation. it was a hoarder commune, if you want to call it that. >> if you didn't know it was there, you didn't know it was there. one of those places tucked in the back, then all of a sudden in the trees, dogs. >> many were kept in a variety of pens and many were just chained on the property. and there was an unbelievable amount of trash and debris strewn all throughout the property. the res...

She just keeps them if they show up. >> jessica finds the mess and conditions so intolerable she seeks refuge in an isolated bedroom in the home. >> it's at the far end of the house. i've separated myself off from the house with a heavy duty shower curtain and baby gate to kind of keep the barrier between myself and the rest of the house. i keep everything in my room now, all my personal belongings, because if i leave them out they'll get destroyed and destroyed very quickly. either stuff will get put on top of it and it will get crushed or her pets might get hold of it or destroy it. things w...

Executive living in an apartment filled with garbage, clothes and 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. 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...

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 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 ...