Comments by "marialiyubman" (@marialiyubman) on "My Home is a Landfill | Hoarders - Buried Alive in My Bedroom S1 Ep2 | Only Human" video.

  1. I pray that Susan’s legacy is that now people understand more about hoarding. And know that it’s not laziness, but a severe mental illness. I know that now, after meeting a Hungarian Jewish woman who turned out to be a hoarder. The way we found out was that she came to the theater where I worked and met her, and said she was robbed, that there’s nothing in her apartment and she’s cold and miserable and she tries to be outside all the time, going to libraries and theaters because they have central heating. I gave her my number and she never called… Then we saw an article about an unusually large hoard that was cleared by the city, it even had a snake shed in it (which no one is sure if the snake lived there and she’d or if she found the shed and brought it home to keep). In the article we saw her back and profile so we realized she was the hoarder in the article. Then it clicked: she kept telling us her mom was deported to Auschwitz. Many holocaust survivors hoard because once in their past, everything was taken from them, including their hair and the clothes that cover their intimate parts. If that happened to me, God forbid, I would never let anyone touch as much as a rock that I found and kept. 💔 She inherited hoarding from her mom and hers got worse because she didn’t know why she was doing it.
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  2. That’s really amazing of you, but not all hoarders allow for that. Many are so attached to their hoards that if you touch it they feel like you would feel if someone is looking through your underwear drawer. Except your underwear drawer is dirty AF and never been washed and you feel extremely embarrassed about that as well.
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  3. I thought so too, living in Israel, but then I went to Europe and it was like 25C in Poland, and I woke up in a puddle of my own sweat. Because they have much lower temperatures over there, they build their houses to retain heat and so 36C is like a sauna in these houses, whereas in Israel and Africa the walls are much thinner and if we get a little rain we cry about freezing to death. Lol
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  4. Update: time to clean your room again.
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  5. They probably grew up with her hoarding and couldn’t take it anymore.
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  6. Just like Covid, these masks don’t work. When you’re in a moldy, enclosed space, you need as much airflow as possible. Otherwise you might get oxygen deprived and inhale mold.
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  7. “Arsonist”???? You’d go after him??? You need psychiatric help!
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