Last night's season finale of
Hoarding: Buried Alive really made me mad. Not because I particularly care that Maggie, a mother of three almost-adult children, chooses to live in filth and squalor with dangerous (and potentially deadly) furniture avalanches poised to happen at any moment. (Although I did feel sorry for her.) And not because no one can walk through Maggie's house; they literally have to tunnel through it. And not because she has hundreds of chairs stacked all around her house (often at great heights), and yet no one is able to actually sit on any of them -- ever. I got mad because Maggie is literally putting her 19-year-old son Justin's life in jeopardy. And I'm not talking about the severe emotional trauma that can result from living with a hoarder (including but not limited to: anger, depression, anxiety, OCD, isolation, fear of bringing friends to the house, abandonment issues). Though she's certainly contributing to that. I'm referring to the fact that Justin suffers from a condition called
spontaneous pneumothorax, which means that at least one of his lungs has collapsed and may well collapse again in the future. When your lung collapses, it's wickedly and searingly painful. You feel like you can't breathe (because you can't). You often need major surgery, an extended hospital stay, a painful chest tube, and hopefully, morphine, which is exactly what happened to Justin. I know these details because one of my sisters lives with a
rare, terminal lung disease called LAM, which has caused both of her lungs to completely collapse and require major surgery more times than I care to count. Which is also why Maggie's refusal to accept and deal with her hoarding problem really pissed me off. ...
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Hoarding: Emotionally Unhealthy -- and Potentially Deadly
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