Stuffed : a Documentary Film

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Produced at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.
"Some people can't seem to throw anything away. This engaging documentary invites us to enter the mind of the compulsive hoarder, while dispelling the stereotype that all 'packrats' are isolated elderly derelicts. Hoarding is widely thought to be related to OCD, but this film notes that recent studies suggest it may be a neurologically distinct condition"--Distributor.
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Very interesting submitted by jgetty on December 10, 2010, 11:56am This video is only 20 minutes long. I wonder if it was a research project for a grad student at UC Berkeley? It interviews 3 people with hoarding problems. It is fascinating to see people living so much stuff, and you realize there are so many reasons (many unknown still) for this behavior. The lady Judith Penney (I think that was her name) was listed at the very end of the film as deceased a year later, I wonder what happened to her. It was so disturbing to see the cluttered condition she lived in. She mentioned her dolls had all been thrown out when she was a little girl and she says now she has over 1000 dolls, she thinks, in her home. I was heartbreaking. Maybe everyone has a little OCD and clutter problem, even the doctor admitted he collected newspapers, but it is really scary when these behaviors go over the line. This film made me think about my own clutter problems, and I will clean some piles out this weekend! Very good video, and many things to think about.

WTH?! submitted by macmamma on April 19, 2011, 5:11pm ok, what is up with this dvd! i can't even get the thing to play at all! it goes to the menu, but still won't let me play it! :( i hope nobody else is having the same problem. i also hope the library can fix the problem soon!