i'm doris i don't think a woman can have enough shoes
shoes is just everything
i'm quisha and i'm doris's daughter shoes may be too small they may be too big they may be too wide
she can't fit them but she'll keep them you gotta have shoes
just like you gotta have a wig to go with it
crazy looking wigs from back in the 80s it's just
terrible the outfit goes along with the shoes and the hair that's a must
i'm tamika and doris is my mother
shoes cups plates silverware blenders toasters who knows
it does not look like a house it looked like a garbage disposal my name's kia and doris is my mom
it's been at least 12 years since i've been in my my own house
just don't feel like being in her messiness even when you talk to her she's messing
they see all this junk and they figure she live in junk throw all of it in the trash we can't
help her because it's a tech as soon as you try to help her she needs this stuff you don't even care
you never take the time to come over here but truly and really help me
growing up definitely wasn't like it is now we would have cookouts we would have family
dinners everyone would come over to my mother's house to eat we had space for
company my grandmother lived across the street so she would always come over and yeah she will
kind of get on her if it was a mess or whatever she made my mom keep stuff clean and keep us
clean she was just a great person i loved my mother my mother was my best friend
then i lost
my best friend after her mother died everything went crazy everything the house was a wreck
recently i had really really bad dreams in those dreams she died in there
she told me after i told her she had the same exact dream cylin fell on me and couldn't nobody
find me until they came in and looked and they realized that i had suffocated and i died
i got sick and i crawled down the steps and i crawled to the door and got two doors away he
came and helped me up and they took me to the hospital their house is killing her she who
were into the point she got a [ __ ] out of the house if this house stays this way she's gonna die
how you feeling doris i'm i'm doing okay my name is corey chalmers an extreme cleaner
specializing in biohazard and hoarding this has been a storage unit for how many months um
well it didn't start off like that but it ended up like that
there's some difficult challenges on this cleanup they're row houses so they're all connected and
the space inside the house is very small so i'm not sure where we're gonna have sorting areas
and things like that that we typically have on a cleanup all right we'll get started okay okay
you want this oh put in trash all of it trash it she said
i think this is just trash mom yeah i don't want it
is this tape on the floor for a reason is this like that's the hole in the floor that's why i
kept it there that's strange it's trash how's it going in here you guys with her everything will be
picking up she's watching like now trash try it she keeping anything she didn't want to keep it
she kept some of the chairs i just took doris and her three daughters into the porch we sorted
through everything and she literally let go about 80 percent of the stuff in there
trash that's a great start i hope she can continue on this path through the rest of her house
you supposed to come see me cause i'm your mother i see you every day most likely i see
you every day and i say hi i don't remember remember that you ain't been here in 15 years
kid and i won't be here at 15 more to be like this 15 years i'm telling you why i laughed no
yes yes yes this is how it looked when i left i'm telling you now she's a liar on what she's saying
she's always been a liar doris i just wanted to say it's not about whether what
kia's saying is true or false but i've been working with hoarders for a long long time
and one of the common themes for many hoarders is denial it is extremely clear that this physical
horde is an absolute manifestation of her internal hoarding doris is holding on to a lot of hurts
most of my life i live to keep y'all happy i got to the point when i had nothing for myself
nothing i had to give everything to y'all and it didn't matter how i made it
only you you make us feel as if we did something wrong to you because we were born
we are doing this for you we want you to be happy you have a problem and this is about a problem
you do no you really are twisted okay i'm sorry mika but you twisted
i don't think we don't get nowhere like this isn't it well this is a start
it speaks a lot to your character to still be here even though this has been the source of
a lot of your hurt and pain and it says a lot about your character these three young women
are not just here to clean out their mother's house this is also about their healing the point
is making sure that you speak your voice that you don't get lost in your own hoarding in your heart
i was victimized by a lot of people that came in the house i'd run away from home because
i raped i was so frightened i didn't know where to go now i'm married
and it was the worst thing i could have ever done i didn't know no better and i know i made
some mistakes but i never made a mistake in heaven pure that's what i need to hear everything's out
i understand now i kind of get it i kind of get why she shuts down it's not this secret that
she's carrying with herself anymore we know now as women we know now if you would have told us this
a long time ago your kids is more understanding than you think your daughters needed to hear this
for her to be able to share this secret is huge it really allows them to see their mother as
strong as opposed to difficult and to see themselves in a different light
we removed a total of about 10 tons of waste and had three
trucks full of stuff going to donation centers
she let go of a lot of stuff wow always figured it's a little tiny room i didn't realize it was
that big what are the chances that you're going to keep it clutter free like this 100 percent
this house isn't pretty but doris is ready to have a different life
she's ready to have the things in her life that actually matter not the stuff
doris you now have all this cleared space and you've got all your girls here what does that
feel like i feel great we're going to try to get together as a family and see what
can we do you know room for room to get the house comfortable enough for her to have her home back
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