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Discusses the problem of compulsive hoarding where people keep almost everything and throw out next to nothing.

Psychologist Randy O. Frost and social worker Gail Steketee present cases studies that examine the causes and implications of compulsive hoarding and discuss their own limited success in the treatment of hoarders.

Kim Miller grew up in a household that had junk and stacks of newspapers in every room.

The child of a compulsive hoarder reveals the difficult challenges she endured throughout her youth, describing her witness to the disorder's progression before her mother's diagnosis with cancer prompted a radical cleaning and a coming-to-terms with the psychology of hoarding behaviors.

Although twelve-year-old Cassidy Bean keeps a book of bad things, she did not expect her summer with the Tremont family in rural New Jersey to be one of them--but this year Ursula, a local hoarder, has died under mysterious circumstances, and Cassidy finds that there are a great many bad and dangerous things hidden in her house, including, perhaps, her vengeful ghost.

Seventh-grader Annabelle's mother is a hoarder, and their whole house is full of canned goods, broken toys, fabric, and old newspapers--but when a pile of newspapers (organized by weather reports) falls on Annabelle's younger sister Leslie and their mother is more concerned about the newspapers, it sets off a chain of events that brings their fix-it-all grandmother in and Annabelle realizes that if there is any hope for change she can not isolate herself and keep her family's problems secret.

One day during mandatory community service, Michael Flynn meets Shelly, a girl with a past, but can he manage to be worth of love while living in his car and d ealing with his mother's hoarding and chaotic home life?.

Twelve-year-old Shayne looks forward to spending her summers with her grandmother, but she is disappointed when her best friend is more interested in boys than making bracelets and her grandmother's hobby has become a hoarding problem.

"When Mouse's dad asks her to clean out her dead grandmother's house, she says yes.

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