Hoarding

Watching hoarders on TV (I think this show is Buried Alive) and thinking about the dynamics of people who hoard & people who watch it on TV.

Watching how they don't take care of their homes because they are so messy that it is overwhelming so they go from messy to trashed - they have piles of junk that become trash because food and dirt and literal trash accumulate on them. And that makes me think about neighborhoods and that process of deterioration. When I drive through neighborhoods that are in transition from marginal to declining, you can see the litter starting to build up - no one cares - they are trashed. The neighborhoods exude hopelessness.While I think most of the dynamics are different, there is a sense of powerlessness and hopelessness that is parallel in the two situations (hoarding and poverty). People see no way out.