Hoarders - Judi and Gail

Hoarders - Judi and Gail

20 Episodes

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Episode 1: Hoarders_S02E02_epis01

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00:00Is there a point
00:01where recovery
00:02becomes impossible?
00:04My barn
00:04is cleaner
00:05than my mother's house.
00:07How does someone
00:08lose control like this?
00:10They let my teddy bear
00:10get ruined.
00:12Who have you let down more?
00:14This bear
00:15or your family?
00:19Two of the most extreme
00:20hoarding cases.
00:22I'm just living
00:24in the garbage dump.
00:26When does hoarding
00:27become a crisis?
00:28There's feces everywhere.
00:30There's four-foot pile
00:31of bathroom.
00:32I want you to be aware
00:33that there were worms
00:36in the garbage.
00:38Can the cleanup teams
00:39save these homes?

Episode 2: Hoarders_S02E02_epis02

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00:05My name is Gail.
00:06I'm 58 years old.
00:08I work security.
00:10My mother passed away six years ago.
00:12My father passed away three years ago.
00:14And their stuff is still in the house
00:16because I haven't been able
00:19to get rid of any of it.
00:27I I do kind of feel like I would be betraying their memories
00:31to get rid of their stuff.
00:34My name is Jerica and I am Gail's oldest daughter.
00:37My grandparents were packrats.
00:39And I will say that my mother inherited
00:42a good 50% of the mess
00:44she's got now was there
00:46when she moved in.
00:48She definitely inherited a mountain
00:52and then she added to it.
00:58It's a disaster zone.
01.40Years of neglect have left Gail's home in ruins.
04.53And even the goats are chewing through the walls.
07.44They've proceeded to eat the siding
09.37and went into this back bedroom
11.91and were taking her stuff out into the yard
15.28and eating it.
17.38Can this home be saved?
19.48Or is the damage beyond repair?

Episode 3: Hoarders_S02E02_epis03

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00:00So she has no water,
00:01and she has no gas.
00:03So she can't cook and she can't clean
00:05and she can't take a shower there.
00:08I flush the toilet with a
00:10bucket of water.
00:13And
00:14I jump over the fence and
00:18My next door neighbor's kind enough to
00:20leave his water hose out.
00:22And
00:24I go get water.
00:26That's how I flush the toilet.
00:30My name's Corey.
00:31I'm 34 years old.
00:33And in a few days, I'll be deploying to Iraq
00:35for a period of one year.
00:39Corey is Gail's son.
00:41After years of trying to help,
00:43he gave up and cut ties with his mom.
00:46She's tried
00:47and
00:48and things get better for a little bit
00:50and then as soon as they get okay,
00:52it kind of spins out of control again.
00:54I do not have any idea
00:56why it's okay
00:58if it lies here and gets walked on,
01:02but it's not okay
01:04for me to put it in a bag and put it in the trash.
01:08So,
01:09who's coming to help Gail?
01:11Hi Gail.
01:12Hello.
01:12How are you?

Episode 4: Hoarders_S02E02_epis04

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00:03Hello.
00:04How are you?
00:05Dr. Zasio?
00:06My name is Dr. Robin Zasio.
00:08I am a licensed clinical psychologist
00:09and a specialist in treating compulsive hoarding.
00:12So, this is your family living room.
00:15This is the living room.
00:16Okay.
00:17Yes.
00:17Okay.
00:19And it looks like this is one of your cat box stations.
00:22Yes, yes, it is.
00:23Okay.
00:24There are numerous cat boxes around
00:27that have been overflowing,
00:29tipped over.
00:30And consequently,
00:31there is urine and feces
00:33that's scattered throughout the house.
00:35Okay, so we're in the kitchen.
00:38It was pretty much like this
00:39when I moved into this house seven years ago.
00:43Most of it was here from my mother.
00:46In Gail's case,
00:47her mother was a compulsive hoarder,
00:49and so we believe that there is
00:52uh not only an environmental influence,
00:55but there can be aspects
00:56associated with heredity.
00.36How long has it been
01.46since you used the dining room?
03.03I mean, we're not even standing on the floor.
04.73I mean, I'm not sure.
05.60It's been uh
07.37two years probably.
08.87The damage didn't happen overnight,
10.90and neither will the recovery.
12.47A lot of that is is from my parents.
15.61And I've never gone through all of it.
18.58So I really don't know what's in there.
20.85I gave the table away
22.11because it got so piled up with stuff.
24.22Okay.
24.85And where do you eat?
26.52Uh,
27.55usually in my room.
29.62So, Gail, what room is this?
32.59This used to be my bedroom.
35.23Where do you even start?

Episode 5: Hoarders_S02E02_epis05

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00:00And how much of this
00:1.uh that we see
00:3.is uh usable
00:5.items that you want to keep for your future or
00:07Oh, I have no idea.
00:11Just easier to block it off
00:13and if you can't see behind you,
00:15nothing's happened.
00:17So what's back here, Gail?
00:19That's where the goats have eaten a hole
00:21in the wall.
00:23Yeah.
00:24I think creatures could be coming in.
00:26I think there may be possums
00:28living in the back room.
00:33This was my mother's room.
00:36I haven't been in this room
00:38since my mother passed away.
00:40Six years ago.
00:41Okay.
00:42Have you been intentionally keeping this room
00:44the way it is because of the loss of your mom
00:47and the difficulty dealing with her possessions?
00:50There are a lot of things that
00:52I haven't gone through.
00:53Okay.
00:54because of the emotional attachment.
00:56Okay.
00:58It was devastating
01:00to lose my mother.
01:01Devastating.
01:03And
01:04I still have her clothes.
01:05Her clothes are still right where they were.
01:08And I just have not been able
01:10to part with them.
01:14It's really, really hard.
01:16That part's really hard.
01:20Her stuff will be the hardest stuff
01:22to part with.
01:25The cleanup team is on its way,
01:27but every hour counts.

Episode 6: Hoarders_S02E02_epis06

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00:07Here's what's going to happen this morning.
08.80We're going to get rolling really fast.
10.80and I'll take a lot of special time with you to get permission
13.20to do some things.
15.20I am Dorothy Breninger.
16.50I'm a professional organizer
18.00and I specialize in hoarding.
20.30Here's my promise.
21.50Our promise,
22.10if I may speak for both of us.
24.30We will throw nothing away.
26.00Got it, crew?
27.30Nothing.
28.60It's all going to be waiting for you at the back of each truck.
32.80In situations where
34.20there's compulsive hoarding,
36.00you also tend to see chronic disorganization.
39.10So, in this case, my role will be to allow Dorothy
42.80to do the organizing part,
45.80and then I will help to manage
47.80the anxiety level that will come up as the process continues.
51.60Anything from either of you?
53.20Jerica, do you want to make any comments
54.80or you have any concerns before we go forward?
57.60No, I'm just ready to get going.
59.40Okay.
00.70Do you get that uh,
02.00you've got some serious support here?
04.90Yeah.
09.30Come here.
15.50The cleanup begins.
17.20and it's immediately clear
18.80they're up against more than anyone expected.
22.50Every bag they fill
24.00means another impossible decision for Gail.
26.90Kind of exciting, huh?
33.30Another cast iron skillet.
35.70So, we're going to keep the skillet.
37.40Yes.
38.00But it was hanging out next to a little critter.

Episode 7: Hoarders_S02E02_epis07

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00:00Oh, it'll be totally sanitized.
00:02It'll totally sanitize it?
00:04You bet.
00:08Here's a flattened rat.
00:09Flattened rat.
00:12Okay.
00:13What is your little brain saying inside?
00:15Eek.
00:16What I need you to do
00:17is not try to avoid how you're feeling.
00:20I I need you to be present
00:21with those feelings because
00:23if you block it out,
00:24I don't want to see you melt
00:25whenever everybody's gone
00:26and you don't have that support.
00:28I understand.
00:28Gail's smiling, uh,
00:30I think is a defense for her
00:31to not have to sit with her feelings.
00:35Wait.
00:37Ah, there you go.
00:39Buried beneath years of clutter
00:41are memories Gail
00:42has never been ready to face.
00:44I haven't seen the trophy in
00:45probably 20 years.

Episode 8: Hoarders_S02E02_epis08

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00:01I hadn't seen the trophy in probably
00:0320 years, maybe longer.
00:05And it really made me miss my mother.
00:09I've started this project several times.
00:12I'm going to put this in here
00:14and then I need a few minutes.
00:16Okay.
00:19I'm going to put it right here
00:21at the back.
00:25Okay.
00:29I miss my mother.
00:37Just so that there's no surprises,
00:38I want you to be aware
00:40that there were worms
00:43in the garbage and down to the floor
00:45because the floor was starting to rot out.
00:47Yes.
00:48So I just don't want you to be surprised
00:50if you start to see moving creatures.
00:52Okay.
00:54Remember, any bag that you have any doubt about,
00:56we can go through.
01:00It's so yuck.
01:08The part that makes me the most sad
01:11is that my barn
01:13is cleaner than my mother's house.
01:16I mean, I can at least sit out in my barn
01:19and watch the horses
01:20and eat a sandwich
01:23and feel fine about it.
01:25The very idea of eating anything
01:28in my mother's house
01:29is just appalling.

Episode 9: Hoarders_S02E02_epis09

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00:00How are you doing?
00:02I'm okay.
00:04Now, you know, we have a lot going on today.
00:07In fact, we have
00:08landscapers outside.
00:09Mhm.
00:10We've got people taking things out
00:11the back window
00:13with your permission.
00:13Yeah.
00:14from that back bedroom.
00:16There are going to be things that
00:19I know I should get rid of,
00:20but that I'm not going to be able to.
00:28I need you to stop.
00:30I need you to stop.
00:32What's going on?
00:34I let my teddy bear get ruined.
00:36If Gail can't let go of this teddy bear,
00:38everything could come to a halt.

Episode 10: Hoarders_S02E02_epis10

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00:04Tell me about this guy.
00:06Well,
00:08this
00:09I was in the hospital for a long time
00:11when I was a kid.
00:12And uh, he was there with me
00:14the whole time.
00:15Yeah.
00:16And I let him get rotten.
00:18He was there for me
00:19and I wasn't there for him.
00:21To hear her say that she felt like
00:22she let the teddy bear down
00:23was a little upsetting to me and
00:25made me a little bit angry
00:27because I'm like,
00:28you're worried about letting a teddy bear down,
00:29but what about the people in your life?
00:32He's he's soaking wet
00:34and ruined and
00:37ruined.
00:39Who have you let down
00:41more?
00:42This bear
00:45or your family?

Episode 11: Hoarders_S02E02_epis11

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00:00With the deadline closing in,
00:02the team is running out of time.
00:08Gail finally agrees to let go
00:10of the teddy bear.
00:17Okay.
00:21I'm really proud of you.
00:23You're very strong.
00:25I'm really, really proud of you.
00:27Okay, let's go.
00:28Okay, let's go.
00:28Let's go.
00:29Let's move on.
00:30Okay.
00:31There, please.
00:33Against all odds,
00:34the team reaches the finish line.
00:40Come at you.
00:51What looked beyond saving
00:53is about to be revealed.

Episode 12: Hoarders_S02E02_epis12

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00:04This is the first time,
00:06the first time
00:07that an adult child has called in for a parent
00:10to get a cleanup.
00:11and the parent went along with it.
00:14This is the first time
00:15and I've been doing this for what, 20 years?
00:17Amazing.
00:19What do you think?
00:20I think it looks so much better.
00:22We're going to turn it into a home
00:24instead of just a place to store stuff.
00:28You can paint.
00:29Uh-huh.
00:30and put paper.
00:31and paper.
00:33It's going to be great.
00:34I love it.
00:35One family's cleanup is complete,
00:37and the journey to recovery begins.
00:40Now it's time to meet Judy.
00:42Judy's story begins with a house no one should have to live in.

Episode 13: Hoarders_S02E02_epis13

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00:00My name is Judy.
00:01I'm 66.
00:03I moved into this house
00:04in November of 1990.
00:08There is still stuff from 1990
00:10that has not been unpacked,
00:12as well as all the things
00:13I've acquired since then.
00:16it just all adds up.
00:18quickly.
00:22To me, the concept of hoarding
00:24has always been
00:25storing up treasures,
00:27bringing stuff in,
00:28and keeping it.
00:31There are things you save
00:33that have no value,
00:35except for emotional.
00:38I'm Ceci
00:39and I am Judi's daughter.
00:41There was always an issue.
00:42I remember sitting at the kitchen table
00:44and my scrambled eggs.
00:46There was always just a small amount of space
00:48for the plate and a cup,
00:50and that was it.
00:51Even then,
00:52there was junk mail
00:53piled up over the tables.
00:55I guess I probably realized
00:57my house wasn't normal
00:58about the time I started going
01:00to sleepovers.
01:02I just remember being so excited
01:04to go spend the night at someone else's house.
01:06and they're like,
01:06Oh, we wanna come spend the night
01:07at your house.
01:08and just being like,
01:10We don't do that at my house.

Episode 14: Hoarders_S02E02_epis14

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00:02And it's just gradually
00:04gone to shambles.
00:06Judy has been without running water
00:08for two years,
00:09relying on adult diapers
00:11instead of a working toilet.
00:13She told me that she was tying herself in at night
00:15so that if she fell asleep,
00:16she wouldn't fall out of the chair.
00:18The day that she got sick and we called
00:20um and had them break in and take her out.
00:23Um she had fallen asleep
00:25and slid out
00:26and gotten wedged and didn't have the strength
00:28or the ability to get herself back up.
00:31And my mom had had a security system
00:32installed in her house
00:34and she'd set the panic alarm.
00:36The door was locked
00:38and they had to break it down to get in.
00:41They found her
00:42um wedged in the kitchen
00:45between the chair and a doorway
00:47is my understanding,
00:48wearing a snuggie and an adult diaper
00:50and um laying in basically a bed of trash
00:54and a used adult diapers.
00:57And they transported her to the hospital.
00.40She had sores on the bottom of her feet
02.10the size of ping pong balls.
04.20And when I I saw her, I I told her,
06.20I said, I hate to tell you this, but
08.10you're going to lose your legs.

Episode 15: Hoarders_S02E02_epis15

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00.15Doctors managed to save Judy's legs
01.55from amputation,
03.50but Judy will never walk
05.30independently again.
08.00Clearing this house and selling it.
10.00This is what's going to pay for her
11.80to have somewhere to live.
15.20She couldn't clean it out,
16.10she couldn't sell it.
17.20It has been referred
18.50to um the health department
19.90for inspection.
25.30If I couldn't clean this place out and leave,
28.40I think I would just get depressed and
31.30I wouldn't survive long.
36.80Okay, Judy, we're here.
38.30The cleanup team has one chance
40.00to change Judy's future.

Episode 16: Hoarders_S02E02_epis16

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00:03Thank you for having us here.
00:04I am Matt Paxton, a hoarding specialist.
00:07What is your big goal for this entire week?
00:09What do you want to accomplish?
10.72My big goal is to get the house clean and empty.
14.52And without a breakdown.
15.99Okay.
16.59Good.
17.42That is our goal as well.
18.82We're we're not therapists.
20.32We're cleaners.
21.32Dr. Moore is going to deal with her very directly.
23.82I'm Dr. Elizabeth Moore.
25.02I'm a clinical psychologist
26.22specializing in anxiety disorders and compulsive hoarding.
28.92We're going to get Cece to walk us through
30.52for a few minutes, okay?
31.22Okay.
31.62All right.
31.92Thank you.
32.22Thank you, Cece.
32.92Thank you.
35.62Judy has a very long history of hoarding.
38.42Decades.
40.72Primarily this is crafts, clothes,
43.12and bags of gifts to be given.
45.62On top of all of this,
47.22we've added um some significant medical conditions.
50.52This is where she's been sitting
52.52to eat, sleep, drink, um everything.
56.42At night, she would tie herself in
59.22and make sure so that she wouldn't fall out.
01.62Her hoarding has almost cost her her health
03.72and possibly her life.
05.22She slid under the rope
06.72and was wedged somehow between there,
09.22this counter and this wall.
12.42There's feces everywhere.
15.42There's uh it looks like a one-foot layer
17.52on the base of the kitchen.
23.02whole lot of feces in the home.
25.22There are some things that she thinks are valuable
27.22underneath all the poop.
28.52Basically music, bills, um dolls.
32.22You're going to see a ton of these things. What are they called?
34.22Bluettes dolls.
35.22Bluettes dolls.
36.32She's her limit is this box right here.
38.52We've got to keep it as much as she can take with her.
41.52You guys are going to get the poop in the bags
43.52and get it out
44.42and we'll re-evaluate at noon.
45.72Be respectful of what you're finding, even though it's poop.
48.52There might be a hundred dollar bill
49.82at the bottom of it.
52.32All right, let's do it.
53.52What deserves a place in Judy's new life?

Episode 17: Hoarders_S02E02_epis17

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00:04There's going to be a finality at the end
00:06and it's sort of scary.
00:07But there's good also be a relief that
00:10all the trash that has accumulated is gone.
00:13What do you what do you see when you look at this pile here?
00:16A lot of trash and a few treasures.
00:18Okay.
00:19And that's just skimming the top.
00:21I don't know what's underneath.
00:22What's underneath.
00:23Yeah, how long do you think this has been accumulating up here?
00:28Got it.
00:29So how many I mean, give or take.
00:31We're almost done with the box.
00:32We're almost through a box.
00:33And that's 24 bags.
00:34So 100 pounds a bag.
00:36So we're already at a ton.
00:37At least.
00:373,000 pounds of poop.
00:3910 is basically I would die without this possession.
00:42Zero is no problem at all.
00:43I don't even need to think twice about this item, out the door.
00:46So this is a keeper.
00:48It can be cleaned up and be at my door in my new place.
00:51Let's look at this.
00:52Okay.
00:52So,
00:53you got Oh, it has your name on it.
00:55So it's, uh-huh.
00:56Okay.
00:57So, where is it on that scale?
00:59That zero to 10 scale?
01.29Nine.
01.69Nine.
02.69Okay.
03.39So without this, you would you would barely be able to to make it?
07.39Maybe an eight.
08.39Maybe an eight.
09.59Okay.
10.29Working with Dr. Mora I think has been very helpful.
11.99When my mom's made an impulsive decision,
13.59she's been able to kind of stop and
16.99ask her, okay, why are we making this decision?
19.99All right.
20.69Are doormats meant to be kept forever?
23.69No.
24.39No.
24.99That was probably a good thing to hit early and negotiate on
28.09because it helped me focus on what's logical and what makes sense.
33.29let's keep it.
34.39Something my mother gave me.
35.59Oh, it's something your mother gave you.
37.19And it has roses on it. My middle name is Rose.
39.69The pendant means more to me in the long run than the floor mat.
44.69Judy has let go of so much already.
47.69But one very heavy item still stands between her and a fresh start.

Episode 18: Hoarders_S02E02_epis18

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Episode 19: Hoarders_S02E02_epis19

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00:00This is the final result.
00:02Amazing work.
00:04But the house is still far from being
00:06fit to live in.
00:08Awful, awful home.
00:10It would be condemned.
00:11It is condemned.
00:11And there's no way that we could let this person
00:13back into this home.
00:17Judy has struggled most of her life
00:18with compulsive hoarding.
00:20But over the past couple years,
00:22things declined even further.
00:24and she made some decisions
00:25that led to some pretty dangerous conditions
00:27being made.
00:30I'm not sure she realizes
00:31how close she came to dying in that house.
00:35This?
00:35Yeah.
00:37How's it feel to see it go?
00:39It's a relief.
00:40Yeah.
00:42The kitchen wasn't that bad
00:44until I started roosting there.
00:46Roosting there?
00:47And everything went over the back of the chair
00:50when I was too tired to do anything else.
00:52Poim.
00:53Okay.
00:55Cece found Judy an assisted living facility
00:57in Spokane
00:59that can be financed
00.30through Medicare and social security.
02.40And a buyer has been found for the property.
07.30I'm excited to get get
09.00a new start.
10.80And it's much easier to get a new start
12.40when you're in a new environment.

Episode 20: Hoarders_S02E02_epis20

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