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Compulsive hoarding disorder is a mental illness characterized by "a persistent difficulty discarding or parting with possessions because of a perceived need to save them." ("Hoarding Disorder - Symp..." by Mayo Clinic).

Not only do people hoard items, there's also hundreds of cases of animal hoarding. More information can be found on the website below.

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There is an animal cruelty crisis going on somewhat unnoticed in the United States, the case of animal hoarding. Over the past 4 years the number of animal hoarding cases has more than doubled at 3,500 new cases. A quarter of a million animals suffer from its effects annually.

Animal Hoarding - Definition

Animal hoarders are people who keep abnormally large numbers of animals without providing for their basic care. On average, a typical animal hoarding case involves 71 animals. In some cases, one person will hoard hundreds of animals who suffer from malnutrition and untreated medical conditions, including ones caused by a lack of basic hygiene. The most common animals involved in hoarding situations are cats, followed by dogs. Almost three-quarters of the offenders are single women. Over 40 percent of object hoarders will also hoard animals. Due to the psychological component of hoarding, simply taking animals from offenders does not solve the problem. Nearly one hundred percent will be repeat offenders. To rehabilitate the offenders, their reason for hoarding must first be addressed. Three types of animal hoarders have been identified:

1. Overwhelmed caregiver: initially provides adequate care but slowly becomes more than they can handle. They may be socially isolated, but are typically willing to accept social intervention and help.

2. Overactive rescuer: difficulty saying no to an animal in need, sometimes beyond their means. They actively acquire animals and believe no one else is capable of caring for them. During this process, they build a network of enablers who give them animals and validation. Sometimes accepting help can be difficult because they feel they are the animal's best chance.

3. Exploiter: takes in animals to serve their own needs, and are typically indifferent to any harm caused. They typically reject authority figures and intervention.

Animal hoarding is included under most states' animal cruelty laws. In Louisiana, covers the state's provisions for animal cruelty. Cruelty is defined as an act where unnecessary pain or suffering is caused or allowed. Under this legislation, unjustifiably failing to provide an animal with proper food, water, shelter, or veterinary care is classified as animal cruelty. In the case of many animal hoarding situations, many of the animals' basic needs are not being met and they suffer from treatable medical conditions. Many who advocate for animal welfare say the sentences aren't enough to curb the issue. The law's maximum penalty is a $1,000 fine and 6 months of incarceration. Enforcement can also be difficult, as most states require the prosecutor to be the one to press cruelty or neglect charges against individuals. Multiple steps are involved, which can complicate and slow down the process. The police must be contacted, and then investigate and determine if there is a questionable situation before taking it to the prosecutor for further investigation. This could mean the animals remain in a questionable situation for a longer period of time. Each parish typically sets their own slightly different standards of care. However, it is asked if you are concerned about the welfare of an animal, you contact local animal authorities.

The Louisiana Animal Welfare Commission (LAWC) was formed in 2001 to ensure and promote the proper treatment and well-being of animals. It is a volunteer group of law enforcement and animal professionals (veterinarians, rescue organizations, breeders) who assist with animal control enforcement and prosecution, lost animal recovery, pet overpopulation reduction efforts, and impoundment inspections. One of their major accomplishments is making it easier to report suspected incidences of animal cruelty or neglect. By submitting a request through their website, situations of concern can be referred for investigation right away. They have also teamed up with the Department of Homeland Security's "See Something, Say Something" program: you can use their "" app to report suspected cases of animal hoarding or abuse. Additionally, LAWC offers educational programs for law enforcement personnel regarding cruelty investigations. They also assist local animal welfare efforts by having a cage/pen loan program. This allows animals in questionable situations, like hoarding or disasters, to be removed quicker and cared for appropriately as soon as possible.

The Animal Legal Defense Fund is a group that advocates for legislative change and enforcement. According to their 2015 survey of animal protection laws, Louisiana ranks in the top tier. However, most states do not have a specific definition for animal hoarding, meaning where it falls on the cruelty and neglect spectrum can be at the judge's discretion. ALDF suggests that all suspected cases of animal cruelty including hoarding be reported to local animal welfare authorities. Locally, you can contact Jefferson Parish Animal Control at 504-349-5111 on the West Bank or 504-736-6111 on the East Bank. Orleans Parish Humane Law Enforcement can be reached at 504-368-5191, ext. 100 or dispatch@la-spca.org.

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There is an animal cruelty crisis going on somewhat unnoticed in the United States, the case of animal hoarding. Over the past 4 years the number of animal hoarding cases has more than doubled at 3,500 new cases. A quarter of a million animals suffer from its effects annually....

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Individuals suffering from this condition often get agitated, anxious, and/or overwhelmed when there is a threat towards them keeping their possessions.

They are sometimes delusional and unaware of their problems resulting from their hoarding - often denying the issues or burying them under the rug.

Typical Symptoms include...

excessively acquiring items that have no use

continual collecting of items despite there being no place to keep them

so much clutter from items that parts of house are no longer accessible

having a strong tendency towards procrastination, perfectionism, indecisiveness, avoidance

issues organizing and planning

(list referenced from "Hoarding Disorder - Symp..." by Mayo Clinic)

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There is no specific known root cause for hoarding, but there are indicating factors found that are common amongst hoarders.

Personality :
People who are very indecissive in nature are at higher risk.

Family :
Hoarding has been seen throughout generations within a family. It's believed that those who witness loved ones hoarding at some point in their lives can "catch"
these hoarding tendencies.

Stressful/Traumatic Life Event(s) :
It is very common that people who develop compulsive hoarding disorder to have been triggered into forming this disorder due to life events. Events such as divorce, loss of a loved one, eviction, sexual assault, etc. are often linked to the root of hoarding. These painful events cause a need for a coping mechanism - which can result in the use of hoarding.

(this list also referenced from "Hoarding Disorder - Symp..." by Mayo Clinic)

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Hoarding can lead to social and physical isolation and can harm or even destroy relationships.

Compulsive Hoarding can risk health, safety, it can lead to homelessness, and maybe even death. These consequences may not just be put on the hoarder - other members of the family and pets can pay the price as well.

Children and pets can be taken from the home and put into the state's custody, and many marriages don't work out if one of the individuals is a hoarder.

(referenced from Mayo Clinic's "Hoarding Disorder - Symp...")

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Psychotherapy (talk therapy) is commonly used to treat Compulsive Hoarding. However many sufferers don't seek help because they can't see or accept their problems.

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Lucy is the main character of Dirty Little Secrets. At 16 years old she is the last child in her family living with her mother and her mother's mess.

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"Everyone has a secret. But Lucy’s is bigger and dirtier than most. It’s one she’s been hiding for years—that her mom’s out-of-control hoarding has turned their lives into a world of garbage and shame. She’s managed to keep her home life hidden from her best friend and her crush, knowing they’d be disgusted by the truth. So, when her mom dies suddenly in their home, Lucy hesitates to call 911 because revealing their way of life would make her future unbearable—and she begins her two-day plan to set her life right.

With details that are as fascinating as they are disturbing, C. J. Omololu weaves an hour-by-hour account of Lucy’s desperate attempt at normalcy. Her fear and isolation are palpable as readers are pulled down a path from which there is no return, and the impact of hoarding on one teen’s life will have readers completely hooked." ("Dirty Little Secrets" by Goodreads)

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The State of the House :
Throughout the course of the book the house is said to have mold, hazards such as newspapers all over the stove, and even maggots. All of these statements help prove that the house truly is unsafe and unsanitary due to the hoarding.

"The fronts of the cabinets were white once, but now looked as though they were covered in fine, brown dirt, like someone had stood in the middle of the kitchen and flung bags of potting soil all over everything. Except it wasn't potting soil. It was mold..." (Omololu 78)

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Over the course of the story Lucy goes through two major shifts in character.

The first personal change she experiences involves her openness towards people. In chapter 11 she lets the 3rd grade neighbor boy - TJ, into her home to help provide her company. Before this Lucy is always fearful that anyone will see the inside of her house, so going from hiding it from everyone to letting someone in is a major change for her.

While cleaning Lucy finds many items that remind her of better times with her mother. She also finds new objects that show her who her mother was before all of this happened. Because she found these items Lucy starts to feel more empathetic towards her mother and feels a sense of love and understanding towards her as well. Before Lucy found these objects she usually only saw her mom as her mental illness, and had close to no empathetic feelings towards her.

("Celtic Zodiac Sign..."

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This issue is important because roughly 1 in 5 U.S. adults experiences mental illness in a year, and 1 in 25 U.S. adults experience mental illness that impacts their life drastically. Because mental illness is so common children may have a parent with mental illness. It is important to support and understand those who live around or with mental illness. People are people, and people cannot choose their mental state or their loved one's mental state. Life can generally suck sometimes, so it is important to be there for eachother.

(stats found on "Mental Health by the Numbers")

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Talk to people if you are struggling, and always listen to those who are suffering or at a difficult point in their life. The 3rd leading cause of death amongst teens is suicide, so it is important to reach out to others to try and stop this tragedy from happening.

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Lucy's character is important because she shows how mental illness affects family relationships and personal aspects of life. She is a new perspective on an increasingly important issue, she tells a story that is never really told. People similar to Lucy exist in the real world, I myself am a living example of it. Publicly addressing this perspective and issue makes for open discussion and awareness.

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In 1947 the Collyer brothers went missing after decades of living as hermits still dealing with the loss of their parents over 20 years prior. Neighbors complained of a smell coming from their shared house in New York - so investigators headed toward the home. Upon arrival they couldn't enter the building. When the authorities final got into the house they were shocked when they found Homer Collyer dead after digging through the mountains of stuff for 5 hours. Mental Floss states that "His corpse was amid tons of junk, including an early X-ray machine, the jawbone of a horse and bundles upon bundles of old newspapers" ("7 Famous Hoarders" David K. Israel). His death is said to have been caused by starvation and heart disease, and it occurred about 10 hours before he was found. After starting to clean the house, Homer's brother - Langley, was then found dead also buried under their stuff. Authorities later found out that he had been dead for about 2 weeks before he was found, and that he was the source of the reported smell. The whole house took about 3 weeks to clean, and was watched by thousands of spectators.

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On March 21, 1947, an anonymous man called New York's 122nd Police Precinct to complain about the smell of decomposition emanating from the dilapidated old house at 2078 Fifth Avenue. Because locals had often called the police about the strange goings-on at this same house before, the precinct didn't hesitate to send an officer.

Once there, however, the policeman couldn't even find a way inside. The windows were reinforced with iron bars, the telephone and doorbell were missing, and the entryway was filled with a pile of junk - newspapers, boxes, chairs - so impenetrable that the six other men who'd now arrived on the scene couldn't even make their way through it at first.

Finally, as the men began tossing the junk out onto the street below, a patrolman broke in through a window on the second floor. Then, after fighting through more of the same junk piled all the way to the ceiling, they found the body of Homer Collyer.

He'd been dead, of starvation and heart disease, for approximately ten hours. It had taken the police five hours of digging through the junk to find his body.

Police, newspapers, and locals alike quickly suspected that Homer's brother, Langley, was both the anonymous tipster and the killer. The brothers had been known to live together for more than a decade, but now, Langley was nowhere to be found.

Rumors began to spread that Langley had boarded a bus to Atlantic City, New Jersey, sending the police on a manhunt into that state and, ultimately, eight others. They turned up nothing.

Meanwhile, back at 2078 Fifth Avenue, authorities turned up nothing but more of the same junk. Crowds as large as 2,000 gathered on the street to watch workmen cart everything from newspapers to a piano to an X-ray machine to even more newspapers out of the house. In the end, they removed at least 120 tons of refuse, more than the weight of a blue whale.

After nearly three weeks of this cleanup, on April 9, laying inside a two-foot-wide tunnel made of drawers and bed springs, a workman found the body of Langley Collyer. Despite both a region-wide manhunt and an intensive search of the Collyer brothers' own home, there Langley was, just ten feet from where his brother had been found weeks before, obscured by the mounds and mazes of junk that had consumed the rotting house.

Authorities estimated that he'd died on March 9, nearly two weeks before Homer, and was the actual source of the smell that prompted the anonymous tipster's call and brought to light this hoarder's den unlike anything the world has seen before or since.

Though their den didn't come to light until 1947, the Collyer brothers began sealing themselves inside this Harlem apartment all the way back in the early 1930s. Over the ensuing years, the brothers gained infamy in the city for their bizarre habits, namely hoarding massive amounts of junk inside their home and building booby traps to protect it.

Things, however, weren't always so strange. Homer Lusk Collyer and Langley Wakeman Collyer were born in 1881 and 1885 respectively. They were born to a Manhattan doctor, and lived in tenements for the early part of their lives, while their father was still in medical school. When their father started to work at Bellevue Hospital, the brothers moved with their family to the brownstone at 2078 Fifth Avenue in Harlem. Both brothers attended Columbia University, where Homer studied maritime law while Langley studied engineering and chemistry.

When their parents separated in 1919, Homer and Langley, who had never married or lived alone, chose to stay with their mother in the Fifth Ave apartment. A few year later, in 1923, their father died, and left them with his cache of medical instruments and books. Their mother died six years later, and after her passing, the brothers continued to live in the brownstone they had shared with her.

At this point, the brothers had still not fully withdrawn from society. Homer continued to practice law, while Langley bought and sold pianos. Homer even purchased the property across the street from their Harlem residence, with the intention of turning it into an apartment building.

Their normal, if slightly odd, lives were derailed when, in 1932, Homer suffered a stroke that caused him to go blind. This led Langley to quit his job in order to take care of his brother full time. They had already begun to withdraw from the neighborhood around them, due to their fear of the new - predominantly Black and poor - community that was beginning to appear in Harlem. But it was after this blindness struck, that the two brothers fully withdrew.

Langley took care of his brother as best he could, but the two of them flatly refused to see any doctors. Langley would feed Homer a diet of 100 oranges a week, black bread, and peanut butter, which he claimed would eventually cure his brother's blindness. He would also read literature to his brother, and play him classic sonatas on his piano.

Homer eventually developed rheumatism that left him entirely paralyzed, but still rejected any medical help.

At this point, the Collyer brothers had lost any source of income, and the city had shut down their utilities for failure to pay. Langley, who was a skilled engineer, then jerry-rigged an old Ford Model T the family had owned to act as a generator for the house. He would use pumps at local parks as a source of water, and used a small kerosene heater to warm their house.

Langley's mental stability then began to deteriorate, and he stopped leaving the house before midnight. In his trips across the city at night, Langley would also pick up a great deal of junk and bring it back to the house.

He would hoard items including baby carriages, rusted bikes, records, and empty bottles and tin cans. He would purchase and hoard thousands of unused instruments, books, and fabrics. He also would collect stacks and stacks of newspapers that he stated were for when Homer would regain his sight.

The Collyer brothers' eccentricities brought them infamy within the neighborhood. The stories then gained widespread attention in 1938, when The New York Times reported that they had turned down an offer of $125,000 for their Harlem brownstone, an entirely untrue claim. Within the article, the Times implied that the brothers had amassed some kind of great material wealth within their home.

This article generated a huge amount of attention around the Collyer brothers, and led to a number of burglary attempts on the house. Langley, with his engineering knowledge, built a huge number of intricate booby traps to deter would-be thieves. After some neighborhood kids threw rocks through a window, the brothers boarded up all the windows and wired the doors shut.

Despite living in destitution, the Collyer brothers seemed to have a considerable amount of money saved up for extreme circumstances. When neighbors began to peek in on the brothers, they paid $7,500 in cash (roughly $120,000 today) for the neighbors' house. When, in 1942, their bank eventually broke down the front door of their house in order to foreclose on the property, because the brothers had stopped paying their mortgage, Langley was waiting for them inside with a check for $6,700 ($104,000 today) to pay off the entire mortgage.

At this point, the house had become so filled with junk that it was impossible to enter through the front door, and trash was overflowing out of the house. The two brothers lived in, and slept in, nests that they had built amid this mass of trash.

Langley spent his time during the day working on his inventions, including a device for vacuuming inside pianos, as well as building tunnels and passageways through the piles of rubbish throughout the house, and tinkering with the booby traps he'd set up.

Eventually, these traps are precisely what did him in. Authorities believe that while Langley was bringing food to Homer via one of his tunnels through the massive pile of trash within the house, he must have tripped one of his own booby traps, causing a fatal cave-in. And without his brother to provide him with food, Homer soon died from starvation.

Three months later, the house was razed and the last physical evidence of the Collyer brothers peculiar palace of junk was gone.

Nowadays, the site of the Collyer brothers' house has long served as a small pocket park, named in their honor. When the Harlem Fifth Avenue Block Association sought to change the park's name in 2002, Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe summarized the strange little place that the Collyer brothers hold in New York lore, saying, "Sometimes history is written by accident... so there are some historic names that are not necessarily celebrated. Not all history is pretty -- and many New York children were admonished by their parents to clean their room 'or else you'll end up like the Collyer brothers.'"
For more of New York in the 1930s, read the tale of "Dead Shot Mary". Then, see 55 heartbreaking images of New York during the Great Depression.

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The Disturbing Tale Of The Collyer Brothers, History's Worst Hoarders

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On March 21, 1947, an anonymous man called New York's 122nd Police Precinct to complain about the smell of decomposition emanating from the dilapidated old house at 2078 Fifth Avenue. Because locals had often called the police about the strange goings-on at this same house before, the precinct didn't hesitate to send an officer.

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"Celtic Zodiac Sign: Butterfly." Www.Whats-Your-Sign.Com, 2017, http://www.whats-your-sign.com/celtic-zodiac-sign-butterfly.html.

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Mental Health of Parent :
Joanna Tompkins (Lucy's mother) is presented as a very complex and layered character as a result of her mental illness. She is shown in two very different ways - as a monster but also as a very loving, compassionate human being.

Several times in the novel she blames Lucy (her daughter) for losing things within the mess. For example, when Lucy arrives home she notices that a stack of newspapers in the house has fallen, and states that her mother will definitely get upset. She then further explains that, "Even with all this stuff crammed into the house, having things out of place made her even crazier. Especially if she thought I'd had something to do with it" (Omololu 17), and then proceeds to tell about an argument that they had the previous night because her mother lost a pair of scissors and was convinced Lucy had something to do with the disappearance.

Joanna not only blames Lucy for misplaced objects, but also for the state of the house. After another flashback to an argument between Lucy and her mother Lucy recalls that, "She always said it was our fault - that Phil (her brother) and I couldn't pick up after ourselves, and that's why this place was such a mess" (Omololu 93).

The mother's hoarding consists of things she buys for people but then loses in the piles of stuff, items she has thought of ANY possible use for (for example : she would keep empty margarine containers to put bottle caps in as well as bread-bag ties), and discount deals that she buys "just in case" the items will come in use eventually.

Despite these parts of Joanna that are purely a manifestation of her mental illness, Lucy reminecises and learns about her mother before she became affected by her mental illness. Lucy finds old newspapers and medals her mother earned for her piano playing skills back when she (Joanna) was a child and young adult, as well as a teddy bear Lucy and Joanna sew together years before. Lucy recalls that once Phil (Lucy's older brother) told her that their mother was a neat freak and a germaphobe up until their father left her.

Lucy also recalls the time that she went to work with her mother. While at her mother's nursing job Lucy is left alone as her mother goes to see a particular patient - Mrs. Collingwood. While peeking through the door Lucy sees her mother soothe the dying woman, and rubbing her feet softly. Lucy states to the reader that "I never asked, but I always pictured Mrs. Collingwood dying that night, with Mom sitting next to herm talking softly and rubbing her feet as she slipped away. It was an image I tried to keep with me whenever she was being particularly unreasonable or screaming her head off at how stupid I was. I would remember back to the day I was proud of her, and somehow that made it not so bad" (Omololu 59).

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Effects on [Joanna's] Family :
Joanna's children are affected in a variety of ways.

Joanna's son - Phil, tries his best to distance himself from his mother, family, and past as a result of living with his mother's hoarding.

Joanna's oldest daughter - Sara, is showing signs of this disorder as well.

Joanna's youngest child - Lucy, pushes people away out of fear that people will find out about the condition of her mother and house. She also is more grateful for basic things (such as hot water) as a result of her mother's disorder.

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According to my research and my own personal experience living in an environment similar to Lucy's I conclude that this book is very accurate.

The research is included in this very Padlet.

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The impacts listed below may be long or short term depending on the individual. Impacts naturally differ between people and circumstance, but many of these listed are common.

secrecy and shame about parent's mental illness

personal blame/guilt for parent's illness or state of home

the development of a mental illness such as Anxiety Disorder

medical problems such as asthma

difficulty knowing the difference between unhealthy environments and healthy ones

(list information referenced from "The Hidden Lives...")

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