While reality TV shows like A&E’s Hoarders and tragic news stories focus on the hoarders themselves, little is heard about the children of these compulsive savers whose affliction was only added to the fifth edition of the Diagnostic & Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders in May. Hoarding isn’t rational, it’s compulsive and doesn’t just go away because you want it to Miller has grappled with her own feelings of guilt for writing Coming Clean, a memoir about life as a hoarder’s child, released this week. My mother is definitely riddled with guilt over it, to this day.” My father and I don’t really talk about it - I think it’s something he put away in that place in his mind he puts upsetting things. “My parents knew the attempt was my breaking point in regard to the way we lived. Miller, 30, told the National Post Friday. “I think my suicide attempt didn’t prompt a permanent change for the same reason our house fire didn’t - hoarding isn’t rational, it’s compulsive and doesn’t just go away because you want it to,” Ms. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.
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