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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 definition it includes three components. there is 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 house and mind of a hoarder. >> this is the entryway to my mother's house. in this room is antique ...

The residents from the main one was just filled with all sort of stuff. it was sort of a little trail to go through the trailer. very strong odor in there of urine and feces. the animals that lived in the trailer were sort of climbing over piles of debris. the dogs were heartworm positive. many of them had heartworm that had advanced to such a severe stage that they were suffering from heart failure at that point. >> a team of more than 20 people examines and documents each animal. >> there were a lot of dogs that were really afraid. you can imagine they'd probably spent a lot of their lives j...

And the bedrooms, same thing. pretty much linens, blankets, stuff like that. >> it was kind of like hilly. you couldn't walk around. you had to climb over it. >> there's the other bedrooms. >> when you looked at the doorway, the stop of the doorway was where you would smash your face on it. debris was 3 feet from the top of the doorway, which is roughly 4 1/2 feet deep. other areas, it was higher. basically got stacked. couldn't see out of the windows. some of the places it was stacked to the cleaning. >> it was clean clothes. she would clean them and pack them away. so it wasn't just garbage....

Mop, wait for it to dry, put it all back and then do the next section. it's very exhausting and very stressful. >> to an outsider, the solution seems easy, clean it up. but with a hoarder, it's just not that simple. >> you don't move stuff. she would be very hurt, first of all, she'd be angry, she'd be hurt at the disrespect to her and her things. she'd 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 ...

Printers. she needed a place to put it and this is where it fit. but for the most part it's all office supplies or meant to be in her office. >> this is the pink room. originally it was my niece's bedroom. and in it is her bed, toy s clothes and my mother has filled it with soft textured items. blan kets, jackets, comforters, clothes, pom poms and still my niece's toys as well as other things that she's bought for my niece to play with. it's 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 cleaned and it was used as ...