OCD

[jim]

I agree with Katy. Thankfully I do not have direct experience of hoarding but watching the programme I was very much reminded of my own mother, who has bipolar disorder, and has over many years resisted all efforts to help her get better.

The conversations Jasmine and family were having, and her mother’s exasperating irrationality, were very familiar. I concluded that the hoarding is only a symptom of an underlying mental illness. I wanted to tell Jasmine that getting rid of the junk, necessary though that is, will not solve the problem. But I also know that unless and until Vasoulla recognises that she is ill (and perhaps she does, she did say at one point that she was on medication) she will not get better.

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