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{{quote| '''Compulsive hoarding is a mental disorder marked by an obsessive need to acquire and keep things, even if the items are worthless, hazardous, or unsanitary.'''}}
 
 
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=== This show provides examples of: ===
* [[Blatant Lies]]: Pretty much ''all'' of Sir Patrick's [http://beginning.anitawirawan.com/2010/09/the-troubling-history-of-sir-patrick-oshannahan-epic-hoarder-and-convicted-felon.html back-story].
** Basically, he turned out to be a con man and sex offender with multiple accounts on multiple online dating sites, trying to get dates with as many (often underage) girls as possible.
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* [[Dysfunction Junction]]: Hanna and her family. Hanna herself is an elderly animal hoarder who lives in a single-wide trailer filled with chickens, turkeys and other farmyard birds crammed into tiny cages caked with filth. She has ten adult children, all of whom she physically abused growing up. When they return to the house to attempt to clean it, all hell breaks loose as the family scream, swear and physically assault each other and the ''Hoarders'' crew.
** And then there was Wilma (11/21/11), whose house was falling apart from neglect and the effects of her hoarding. Her three adult children claimed that she abused them when they were growing up, and she calmly described ''on camera'' a time when she chained one of them to his bed as discipline. As the cleanup effort progressed, she took no responsibility for the situation, told her children she didn't love them, and told the therapist that she wished she'd never had them in the first place.
* [[Exactly What It Says Onon the Tin]]
* [[Explosive Breeder]]: Glen let his one male and two female pet rats loose in the house, and didn't have the heart to recapture or stop feeding them. Months later, his home is a [[Squeaking Carpet]].
* [[Follow the Leader]]: TLC now has a show, ''Hoarding: Buried Alive'', with the exact same premise as this show.
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