Collection of some online videos about hoarding...

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POSSESSED
by Martin Hampton
http://www.vimeo.com/603058?pg=embed&sec=603058

'POSSESSED' enters the complicated worlds of four hoarders; people whose lives are dominated by their relationship to possessions. The film questions whether hoarding is a symptom of mental illness or a revolt against the material recklessness of consumerism. When does collecting become hoarding and why do possessions exert such an influence on our lives?
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YOU AREN'T ALONE
http://vid77.photobucket.com/albums/j58/COHDonna/?action=view&current=7d4b03b0.flv

A video for those who save to see how they are not the only ones who do.

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THE COLLECTOR
by Martin Hampton
http://www.vimeo.com/666346

The Collector is an ongoing portrait of Christian, a lifetime collector who has “worked” the streets of his local town in Provence for the last 30 years. Every night, from midnight till dawn he makes a careful circuit of the town’s dustbins and picks up things he considers useful. These are added to his ever-burgeoning collection which now fills the three plots of land he inherited from his grandparents.

The second part of the film revisits Christian after 3 years to find him adapting to new restrictions imposed by his nemesis, the town’s mayor.

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News Broadcast (Oklahoma)
Featuring a compulsive saver (hidden) explaining the isolation and embarrasment hoarding brings her.

Eyewitness News 5's Maggie Carlo has the story of a local woman suffering from Compulsive Hoarding Syndrome.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=-Wbyt4Ys6Os

MSNBC
"The Obsessesed"
Highlights from "MSNBC The Obsessed" for the educational purpose of illustrating a lesson on OCD for a women's studies on mental health class.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=zg0DKrcct4E

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April 5, 2007
Buried Treasures: Understanding and Treating Compulsive Hoarding

Gail Steketee, dean ad interim of Boston University’s School of Social Work, presents her research on compulsive hoarding behavior. Nearly 75 percent of Americans have had a problem with compulsive hoarding, or the acquisition of, and failure to discard, a large number of possessions. People who compulsively hoard, says Steketee, tend to believe that some part of their identity would be lost if they part with their possessions. Steketee discusses the co-morbidities associated with compulsive hoarding, the personality features that compulsive hoarders tend to exhibit, and the epidemiology and demographics of the disorder. She also compares the therapies used to treat it, including pharmacotherapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, and group therapy, and concludes by emphasizing the importance of grounding change in the client’s personal goals and values.

http://www.bu.edu/phpbin/buniverse/videos/view/?id=95
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Hoarding: Health Story
Aired on Superstation WGN
Saturday, April 2 and July 2, 2005

Dorothy Daley is one of the millions of compulsive collectors who have an obsessive need to hoard things. "It's depressing and frustrating. I feel pushed into a corner," Dorothy says. Randy Frost, PhD and a professor at Smith College in Northampton, researches why people take saving to an extreme. "When it becomes painful to bring someone into the home, this leads to isolation, depression and shame," says Randy. There is help available for those who hoard in the form of monthly support groups and clutter coaches like Beth Johnson who asks her clients, "What would your emotional state be if you parted with this item?" Having someone there helps keep collectors on track. "Hoarding sometimes relates to memory and people feeling that if they don't keep something, they won't remember it," says Randy. Some collectors are perfectionists. Others have security and control issues. "If I uncluttered, I would be freer, happier," says Dorothy.

http://healthcorner.walgreens.com/display/1424.htm?ec=hn272_hoarding

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'Compulsive Hoarders' Can't Throw Things Away
(ABC News) Good Morning America
Woman Says She Lost Job, Fiance to Disorder that Makes Her Feel Ill When She Streamlines
Feb. 11, 2006

Linda Mackintosh is drowning in treasures. Piled high to the ceiling of her Connecticut home, her collection of paper bags, boxes, yogurt containers, office supplies and so much more allows only a narrow path to get from room to jam-packed room.

Linda Mackintosh's compulsive hoarding disorder means that her house is full of clutter.
"Everybody thinks it's just a pile of old news, but to me it's a treasure!" Mackintosh said of her collection of old newspapers.

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/Health/story?id=1606646&page=1
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The Learning Channel
"Help! I'm A Hoarder"
December 18, 2007
Three individuals face the damaging effects of compulsive hoarding.

Part I:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3akft5wENjw

Part II:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygRLmJYObwU

Part III:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dX3nYZES2s

Part IV:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMqq9O3Ks20

Part V:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMqq9O3Ks20

Part VI:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=f63zmDS6uKQ&sdig=1

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Videos about compulsive hoarding on the social bookmarking site, del.i.cious :
http://delicious.com/Children_of_Hoarders/video

Videos about compulsive hoarding on YouTube:
http://uk.youtube.com/results?search_query=compulsive+hoarding

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"World of Compulsive Hoarders"
February 27, 2008
Documentary on hoarding by "Other Lives" in the UK.

You can watch them all in one place here:
http://tinyurl.com/6efr35
or visit the links separately below:

Part I:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ-ZBvZrf1o

Part II:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=iqVekHHObLg&feature=related

Part III:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MMQ1o4eJDww&feature=related
(segment that discusses the Collyer Brothers from Harlem in the 40's)

Part IV:
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=LqjIVrMc_fQ&feature=related

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Created by COH:

Sequestered in Squalor:
October 24, 2007
An inside view of what if feels like to be sequestered inside the squalor of compulsive hoarding.
Many of the photos you see were taken after a daily "clean-up of the house. This is often what social workers/case workers see when there is a teenager or older child or adult child living in the home with a hoarder.
Many of us are the family heroes, the responsible ones. We are often one of the gatekeepers of our family's nasty, dirty, secret.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65xcUgj3wsU

When A House Is Not A Home:
January 07, 2008

This is a brief, but inside look at what it feels like to be a child of a compulsive hoarder. There were many days while living with my mother; I felt immersed in the wishful thinking of a young child. I only wanted to sleep, dream, wake-up, and find ALL the mess gone.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=oDeWwRPorL0

The Hallway:
(by: http://hoardersson.blogspot.com/)
January 02, 2007

My mother is a compulsive hoarder. This is the hallway where we found her several days after she fell in the middle of her hoard (don't worry - she's okay now). Don't let this happen to your parent!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bes1R-ejT_c

The Empty Nest:
January 03, 2007
A hoarder's "nest".
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=J8q3ZAR8vRU

Conversation wtih a Hoarder
April 01, 2008
I recorded a conversation I had with my step-mom white going through one of the "trash bags" I had put together. I then did a video showing what we were talking about. Keep in mind. Must of this stuff is from when my sister was a baby. She is 15 now.
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=MZE6Pj4m2Ag

By Friends of a Hoarder:
The aftermath of hoarding disorder. February 13, 2008
A friend of ours passed away and we're left to try to sort through the estate and clean up the house. This is a quick tour of of the house, at least of the areas that are accessible.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tePysi_kBjE

MISC.:
Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Obsessive compulsive disorder cognitive behavioral therapy videos
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=gjZ216Z4JQk

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April 28, 2008

Dr. Phil - Extreme Hoarding - Part 1
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OePmQQ9pfGY

Dr. Phil - Extreme Hoarding - Part 2
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=OqmkbA5Nl8o&feature=related

Dr. Phil - Extreme Hoarding - Part 3
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ECxAeUooXhY&feature=related

Dr. Phil - Extreme Hoarding - Part 4
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=XhlF10I-J7I&feature=related