Compulsive Hoarding

I was really tired initially, but after installing some software for my new baby (MuVo V200- it was a free anyway), i'm not that tired anymore. And so i will talk about today's episode of Oprah's Primetime

I woke up at an unearthly hour of 12.30pm this afternoon. Realised it was raining in torrents, no wonder it was so cold, no wonder my 2 Mogu were so cooling. hehe. So i thought of going back to sleep, but i really couldn't. I washed up and tuned in to Oprah's Primetime. My favourite talk show!

Today's topic was on Compulsive Hoarding. What the heck is that you may ask. Okay, apparently, an american woman sent in a video of the state of her house. FUCKING GROSS! Worse than war zone. She has dog's poop all over the place, her toilet bowl stained with shit, maggots growing in her kitchen, no space to walk, pots left in the sink (mind ya! they were left there for 2 yrs), food left in the refridgerator for don't know how many fucking eons, tonnes of rubbish in her room like ice cream tub on her bed, a rug on her bed, WTF is wrong with these ppl! And every room is filled with ALOT of things. The bottom line is, this woman is suffering from a disorder called Compulsive Hoarding. In lay man's term, being a Karang Guni, keeping everything. It kinda dawned on me that i'm abit of a karang guni (i'll tell you about that shortly).

So, dumbfounded, Oprah got a team of professional cleaners to clean the room. These professional use swabs and started collecting samples of microbs. Hah. And to my surprise, 500, 000 bacteria growing on her toiletbowl. And they described her leftovers in the fridge as "carcasses". Sick i tell you! And she doesn't even clean the poop in her house and allows the dogs to shit everywhere. OH GAWD.

Back to me! This is my blog! Yes i admit i'm a hoarder (if there's such a word). I keep nonsense stuff, not knowing whether i'm ever gonna use them or not. I just keep. Keep what you may ask. Well, i keep paper bags, boxes, (some) bottles, tags from clothes ( i don't even know how that can be useful, but i keep telling myself i could use them as bookmarks, and do i really need that many bookmarks?), my cosmetics are pretty old, but i have no idea why i'm not throwing them away, neither am i using them. And gross clothes which i would never wear out, why the heck do i still have them in my cupboard? I also don't know!

The guest psychiatrist on the talk show mentioned something about ppl with compulsive hoarders are a mixed of perfectionists + indecisive dumbfucks. The perfectionist part- They want to keep everything, because they see discarding things as not being perfect. The indecisive part- They can't decide for themselves whether the rubbish is of good use, they keep it nonetheless. I'm not an extreme hoarders. Extreme hoarders do not even discard yesterday's newspaper. Haha. How's that for a joke. Oh, but i'm not sure why in that gross lady's case, she can't wash her dishes or clean the dog shit. The irony is that, she claimed that she loves her dogs, but she ain't doing a good job. Eg, a fish enthusiast would constantly clean the fish tank and stuff right?

And so, Oprah felt sad for her. She even COERCED her to seek treatment. Haha. I'm glad that stupid lady is ashamed of herself. Gross.

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All Hail Oprah!!