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Validate Me!
Compulsive hoarding damages house structures, threatens safety and health, drains bank accounts, and estranges a hoarder from the rest of society. It goes way beyond just saving stuff. It goes deeper than just being a pack-rat. It is a very real disorder, and it affects more than the hoarder. In this brief memoir, Melissa shares her struggles growing up as the daughter of a hoarder, her reality TV experience and the events that followed, and her journey through the therapy she did not realize she needed. "Validate Me! (How my mom's hoarding kind of messed me up.)" opens your eyes to the most important “things” that get destroyed under the piles.
116 pages, Paperback
First published April 30, 2014
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July 27, 2014
Full disclosure: The author was a friend and co-worker of mine years ago. It was weird reading about events in her life when we would talk almost daily, and I had no idea what she was going through.
In this book, Mel writes about what life was/is like living with a hoarder/obsessive pack-rat in the family. It is well researched, and filled with thoughts from Mel's blog, her appearance on reality TV, and words from her therapists. If you are interested in how hoarding affects the children of the hoarder, you should really read this book.
In this book, Mel writes about what life was/is like living with a hoarder/obsessive pack-rat in the family. It is well researched, and filled with thoughts from Mel's blog, her appearance on reality TV, and words from her therapists. If you are interested in how hoarding affects the children of the hoarder, you should really read this book.
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