I'm also full of panic about the absolute horror and shame I will feel when they are in here. My initial reaction to that the appointment was panic, panic, panic, and then I just froze. 

I was paralysed for days, I knew what needed to be done, I didn't know how to do it. 

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If you're listening, and you're struggling with hoarding and you haven't got rid of 75% of your stuff already, then listen to me: “Don't get the pretty basket, don't get the shelving unit, and don't get the pretty bags. Not just yet, anyway. Hold out, as it is just more clutter”.

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I can't tell you how dejected I feel right now. Because sorting out a few boxes in one room is one thing. It's better than not sorting out a few boxes in one room.

But that's one room of several. And that's a few boxes out of a gazillion boxes.

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Programmes about hoarders exist so that viewers can look into the home of somebody who's struggling and laugh at them. And that's not okay.

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So, I hate the word hoarding. I hate the word hoarder. I resist saying them unless I absolutely have to. And this podcast and the website are kind of forcing me into getting used to those words, and I suspect that's a good thing. But they are difficult words. 

It's a very, very stigmatised thing.

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So I guess the place to start really is how I got to where I'm at now. Where I'm at now is that I live in a hoarded house, surrounded by crap that I have a lot of mental blocks around getting rid of. 

I'm sick of how I live. But fixing it is so overwhelming that I don't know what to do.

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