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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here.  Love and empathy for all the fellow children of hoarders.  I was finally able to get my mom to an assisted living facilit two years ago next month.  It changed my life so much to have this burden lift...I have since, at 42 now, gotten married and had a baby.  I could never have done that with the unrelenting pressure of my mother's hoarding and ill health on me.

Sadly, it came at a terrible price.  It took my brother's death by suicide to wake my mother out of her selfish, sick spirals and let us move her.  My brother owned the house where she lived, and though his death was from his bipolar disorder, the pressure of trying to help her was, while not the cause of his death, certainly a contributing factor to the misery of his daily life until his death.  I don't blame her for his death, but I blame her for how cruelly she rebuffed his goodness and concern for her.

In assisted living, she still has the same hoarding tendencies, but they don't put up with it.  They clean out her room once a month with her.  She's actually never been so happy.  In many ways, neither have I.  I just wish my brother survived to see this.[/quote]

This is sad and touching. Thank you for sharing this story. I hope your family is finding some peace now.[/quote]

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