I have put a link in to Firehouse Forum today, to a thread about 'Collyers Mansion' conditions and the danger our squalor can put other people into. Thanks to Children of Hoarders for leading me there.
I include this one because I have experienced the need for emergency services to enter my home, along with the shame of it. I've also had more than one surveyor complain in writing in their report on my home that they couldn't conduct a full survey because of "the quantities of belongings" in the house. That really upset me at the time, and I still think about it.
Some of the fire fighters' comments are uncomfortable reading and may be upsetting if you hope for people to understand OC Hoarding, but I ask you not to go off on one at them. These people are there for our protection and give vital aid, even if the idea that they may also choose to 'blow the whistle' on us and expose our miserable states of being is disturbing to you, as it is to me.
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