I just end up getting mad at the people hoarding all that crap.
I just went and found an ep online too, it was the one w/the woman in Seattle w/2 houses who was facing foreclosure and the young woman in VA whose bf had one foot out the door.
I got mad too but I then swerved into horrified, then disgusted, etc. I agree that i don't think it's really entertaining long term, but it was fascinating to watch one ep, and I'm amazed and sad that this is basically an untreatable illness. Didn't sound like there were any meds for this sort of thing - not that flinging pills at someone is always the solution, I"m just saying it shouldn't be the ONLY solution.
Wouldn't it be great in treating these people long term if they could- I don't know, chemically castrate that part of themselves that makes them linger for 2 hours over a bag of garbage to make sure they don't want to keep any old shampoo bottles or empty jewelry boxes? Then they could do therapy to work on whatever in the hell makes them do this.
