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Found it, reminder set!!

It was much later than I thought It would be!!

what time please? as I can't find it to set a reminder?

((((((((((((((hugs)))))))))))))))

xxxxx will watch it tonight, Liz

Love

Daff xxx

Hi Liz
Will watch programme
Take care
JenXX

I have seen a similar programme before. I believe you have to start in small steps Liz, by throwing away one piece at a time. Start by throwing or recycle 1 magazine a week. Good luck and let us know what you think of the programme and if it was helpful.
Tina x

hi liz
not quite sure what to say to you but will watch the program with you in my mind now.
we all deal with problems our own way, dont be ashamed of that .
dawn x

Liz, I will record it, I will have visitors, but we've spoken about your problem, and this will give me more insight into it!
Keep well friend
xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Aw Liz, maybe the programme may show ways to help. Sometimes at the end of these type of programmes it says something like if you have experianced or know anyone that has we have a helpline.

It sounds an interesting watch but I will be out tonight - maybe it will be Catch up TV and ill watch it over the weekend.

Sounds like you recognise you have a problem which is always the first half of the battle.

Maddie x

Tonight on Channel 5, is a programme called Hidden Lives about female hoarders. I am going to find it hard but interesting to watch as that is the problem I have and it has ruined my life really.
If you watch it, please don't get impatient and disgusted at the way things are likely to be, as it is something that we hoarders are unable to cope with. Throwing something away is so hard, you almost mourn the things that go, if you can manage to get rid of things. I don't hold on to rubbish but do have a problem with newspapers and magazines, I have to check the papers and cut out things that interest me before recycling the papers, and I hardly ever throw away magazines. I have clothes that will never fit me again yet still I find it difficult to get rid. I did pack up some things once or twice for people in Kosovo and other places, and took them to a depot where they loaded up a lorry. I sent a skirt I had got from a charity shop but had intended altering, of course I hadn't done it so sent it off. Even today all those years later there is something that nags at me about that skirt and the fact it is gone.
There are very few people who can help those with this problem and I have been trying to access help for 16 years to no avail. It can be a form of ocd and there is a non ocd version called Diogenes syndrome and syllogomania.
One day I will crack it, and sort my possessions out, and have a nice home to live in again, I wasn't always like this, it came on gradually when I was going through a huge amount of domestic stress. My son is terrified I will die before I sort things and leave him a house, two garages full of clutter and possessions.
Lizx