Hoarders

In this reality series, a team of professionals assist people with a hoarding disorder with understanding their compulsion and cleaning up their homes.

Her son, Jason, has already been removed from her home. Augustine was never able to actually have him return to the house. Augustine now lives without water, gas, heat, or appliances and the courts have become involved forcing her to clean up.

Daughters help their mom in an effort to clean her home to keep it from being condemned; and a mother of two is threatened with divorce if she doesn't stop hoarding.

Every room in Phyllis' house is packed with dolls. Her obsession has manifested itself into a floor to ceiling collection of bags stuffed with dolls, and a doll hospital in a spare bedroom where she "amputates" the limbs of one doll to make another complete. Now, her son is threatening to call Adult Protective Services if she doesn't get a handle on her compulsion. Janet's home is so hoarded that she has to crawl upon mountains of garbage to get to the one recliner where she eats and sleeps. She's had no running water and no heat for two years and routinely huddles under seven blankets to keep warm. Unable to watch her mother live in such horrid conditions, one of Janet's nine children is threatening to have her committed for her own good.

Paramedics rushing to save a woman's life lose precious time when they're forced to climb over the hoard they find in Norman's house. Officials on the scene immediately call the Fire Chief and the Fire Marshall because the home presents a huge fire hazard to the neighborhood. Within an hour of being told his girlfriend is dead, the property is crawling with city officials and the house is condemned. Norman is given 30 days to clean up, or he could lose his house forever. Ever since Linda's husband died ten years ago, she has been adding to a hoard that has now spiraled out of control. Her two grown sons living with her do nothing about it either and each family member blames the other for not cleaning--causing a toxic three-way in the house. If Linda doesn't get help with the hoarding so she can recuperate and rehab from her future surgery, her sister is threatening to report her to the authorities and will have her own sister "shut-down."

Debra has filled her house with an avalanche of clothes and run up a $50,000 credit card debt. Fed up, her husband and children are threatening to leave her to wallow in the hoard by herself. Meanwhile, Patty has stuffed her house with so many floor-to-ceiling cardboard boxes that she's had to move to her son's apartment. But now she's filling up that place too, and the situation has already forced her son's partner to say, "Keep the heap - I'm leaving!"

The season kicks-off with a one-hour special focusing on a Massachusetts family and features live segments culminating in an all-live intervention. Also featured is the story of a second hoarder who faces jail time if he doesn’t pass a final city inspection.

A Vancouver, Washington woman lives a dangerous life of strange contradictions. Judy is an extreme germaphobe who spends her entire day engaged in sanitization rituals, yet she lives in a severe and extremely filthy hoard overridden with mice whom she considers her friends. The situation is so hazardous to her health that the fire department and health department have mandated a clean up.

Lonnie is a famed neurosurgeon and former Lt. Governor of the State of Nevada. He is also a notorious hoarder spending an estimated $10 million on his collections! Lonnie is facing potential bankruptcy and the loss of all assets if he can't auction off some of his hoard to pay off debts. Linda loves Storage Wars. However, she has accrued so many storage units, she can now barely live in her house. Her loved ones are on the verge of calling authorities to have Linda forcibly removed from the home if she doesn't clean up.

Andy and Becky feel it is their constitutional right to live however they choose, even if that's among 250 tons of hoard; they soon find themselves in a battle with the city government that could end with them going to jail and losing their home.

Over the past two decades, Carol has hoarded her husband's home. Now, she's left her husband Dave to deal with the hoard and his failing health. With the mansion threatened to be condemned, the family unites to try to save the house and confront Carol about her behavior.

Hoarding experts visit a business owner, cancer survivor and others. Plus, a collection of retrospective specials looks back at some extreme cases.

Terri has never really been able to live in the home she bought as the house was filled with clutter from her hoarding. Terri and her boyfriend Kraig have always wanted to get married but the hoarding has stood in the way. Terri spends all her time as a live-in caregiver for an elderly gentleman and has hoarded clutter in his house as well. Her entire life hangs in the balance as her relationship and her career are in jeopardy. Terri is finding the process extremely difficult and is clashing with the cleanup process. She needs to organize her house, her client's house and get her hoarding disorder under control. Will the Hoarders team of experts be able to complete the job or will Terri's temper stop the process?

Dr. Zasio and her team of organizers help people with a hoarding disorder clean up their homes and lives — but letting go can be emotional agony.

Being on call 24 hours a day enables practiced midwife Terri to hide her personal life and the depths of her hoarded home; as she constantly blames the hoarding on her busy schedule, past trauma surfaces to reveal the real reason for her disorder.

Hoarding cars and car parts is Tim's way to cope; Tim intends to fix and sell the stuff, but he never does; his wife, DeeDee, refuses to return home to the mess, and they face the possibility of divorce if he doesn't clean up his hoard.