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tv   Hoarding My Mothers Garden  MSNBC  September 28, 2015 12:00am-1:01am PDT

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because if it's monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday or friday it's mtp daily and we'll be back next week because if it's sunday it's "meet the press." as a kid i realized she had a problem when my friends from school told me they saw her in the alley going through the dumpster. >> look. how beautiful is this, right? it's from japan. >> she loves collecting things because she finds beauty in them. she finds beauty in life. one person's trash is another person's treasure. >> this could be for the
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bathroom, you know, to put the tooth brushes. i see how hard it is for me to get rid of stuff. you know, i put things to the trash and sometimes i take it back out. a few things. and it takes three, four times to go through before i get rid of it. >> my mom was collecting things that we didn't actually need. she just wanted them for the sense of having things. at some point we knew she couldn't stop. >> i found something for the kids, for my grandchildren.
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i have recyclables i always pick up because i think if they're laying in the grass it doesn't look good in the park. something for hair. >> she didn't want anyone seeing the disorder of her life and she actually barricaded the house to the point where you had to climb in through a window.
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>> actually, like i said, i don't sleep in the house. i'm outside more comfortable than inside. sometimes i am too lonely inside the house but outside i never feel lonely. even if nobody is around. just the birds, the creatures, you know, the trees. the sun, the moon. at night it's so peaceful with the stars. i think that god makes better creation than we do and his house is perfect. outside is god's house -- his trees and the way he created them, you know?
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it's so beautiful that whatever we do inside our houses is going to be -- never going to be as good as outside. >> our whole family hadn't been together in about ten years. i came back from my life in new york and was able to get my brothers to come to the house and assess the situation. yesterday i was working in the
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>> cindy, would you like blouse doesn't she look beautiful in it in a store have you to pay 15 to i need to have the house together a petition to get her
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no, mom. let's take one of these so i can supermarket which has a healthy, my mom goes here but she gets but the food is still good for >> she's actually eating pretty
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>> too big for you.
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with the very real threat of for her but we didn't know where >> the los angeles department of >> calls and visits to the disorder but no viable treatment no one seemed willing or able to >> post war poland was in a my mother's family structure >> first of all, i lost my
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father when i was only ten he went with his family back to >> my mother was abandoned by responsibility for her was my there was a lot of abuse childhood can trigger certain and she definitely had enough
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this was the first time my mother actually allowed my
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>> come on. >> are you serious? i don't even want to come in here. >> okay. come here. this is the kitchen i'm not using lately. so i have more stuff here. the bathroom hasn't been used. in the bathroom the ceiling is coming out. >> is that it? >> you're walking on piles of
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i felt like this was a crisis and she tells me it can't get i'm hoping to sell this at the odor in there is just now, something worse could the fire department can just come in and basically demolish
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you were always nice and clean and you still complain about didn't really know how to we didn't have normal things growing up like a desk or instead, my mom just collected sleeping on a sleeping bag in couldn't bring friends around,
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very introverted, you know, >> my brothers and i all took we did what we had to do to >> the problem is especially it's nothing to do with going it was just a place that kind of
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>> i left home at a really young home because i had nowhere to friend's house to another i got involved with doing things proud of but i think a lot of girls end up doing this when they feel they don't have a home i've always had a hard time in i would go out every day and not
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that summer i came home to take >> why don't we listen to for the trip so i stayed with her and i wanted to be with mom, may not be getting what you
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there's something wrong with >> while all of us were drifting
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>> with my mother facing the and i are trying to help her >> right now i have the books so i have room on the shelf to put >> why can't you put the books in and donate them to a library >> are you really going to read
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>> what about the three of you, >> don't worry about us. >> do you want to just throw it away? >> i'm starting to lose i'm starting to think that it because we'll get her started being in the house my brothers we weren't really sure if she >> you want to get your way
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without consideration for what i >> we're trying really hard to you want to -- the boys will do >> mom, you have to enjoy this we're bringing everybody >> i am not enjoying this. >> i'm sorry you have to go through this. do you understand the >> you can't rationalize with she doesn't see things i convinced brian and andy and
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>> i need you to be quiet for going to drive the car unless >> oh, stop telling me what to i am not strong enough to hold >> you don't get it, brian. . >> so, mom, go back in the house
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i can't believe you want to live >> oh, it just happened over she was ready to get rid of the and get rid of the 'fridge it turned out to be way more >> a lot of time and effort.
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>> i'm really sorry. >> pretty funny. crossed her out. that's it. >> the morning that we had to get her on the plane we still had no idea if she was going to >> i hope we get mom on that she's watering the garden right >> you're going to have to be in >> i need to be here to make >> i will do it with you out of
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i hap people standing over my >> we're going to miss the >> we've got to get her out of maybe i can pull a smile
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>> my mother actually used to when she first came from poland she worked as a waitress on >> when should a woman get
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isn't it nice to be around all these polish people being proud after she came to new york i noticed my mom's condition was every year i come here it's better, putting on makeup, going >> still won't take my age away actually invited over all of my
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know which one i want you to the one we took from the the most important thing for me, that you and andrew stay in >> there's no real way to get i mean, there's no way any of this stuff would have got out
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>> our first priority was to get rid of the compost piles and we that was probably the worst part >> the house spells better now it's not super pleasant but not >> my mom's room started filling i knew that this problem was you're not hiding it back there.
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i work every day very long hours and i come home and i want my house to be a certain way. when i come home -- >> and i am the one who clean your house. i moved the refrigerator. i cleaned inside, outside. i move this, i clean inside, outside. i wash the floor. i wash this one. i clean this rug. i clean the whole floor. i move this. maybe that's why i have a back problem. i moved your couch. >> i don't want to clutter the house. >> yeah but i need stepping stones. >> you're not respecting my wishes. for your own medical and mental well being i think it's good to
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let go of some of these things and for my own mental well being because most of the time i am having to carry your load. my mom just hopped on a plane and jetted out of new york without letting any of us know. and is heading back to the house. this is going to be quite an extreme change for her to show up at the house completely gutted out. there's nothing in it. >> ah, two dumpsters.
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mom, the city was about to take
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as soon as i could, i got on a plane and came back to
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mother was living in a clean house and she was completely
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you want to go for a walk, get >> i have no strength to go >> you going to lay in bed like the mental health people are situation, see if you need maybe you need to go to the
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>> well, you know that we love you and we're very concerned and we're trying to make your >> you're not going to make >> why are you here? >> because i want to kill >> i told you not to come. i don't like seeing you in this
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i wanted to learn more about my i take her to another place and evaluation for my mom is really you can have any kind of >> we love you. hope you get better soon.
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>> he's been doing lots of and they said basically, you
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>> how do you feel about i don't feel right going to >> i want to tell you about my a lot of places don't even she has to go to this retirement
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it's a nice street. is this the little eating area what do you think about this >> and there's all the younger you can go hang out with and >> you can read books. >> what do you mean you're
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we can move to more independent construction crew to come everything that needs to be done
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>> i brought dinner just in >> i think it's going to cool you're going to feel much >> as soon as you feel better, other patients, then i could be
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that i felt started slowly to but look at that. >> happy birthday, lynn. i'm sure god going to make you >> mom, i'm really impressed. things are looking really >> objects are the seeds of her
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we hope that the garden will >> this is because sometimes i'm i don't have enough courage to tell somebody straight for myself because of my childhood so i bought myself this to
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and i'm living in this pink where i went outside and it was but to my surprise they didn't she couldn't swim after her so she was running around the
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>> what do you want your they should give their best, i just wish i was more it's better late than never,
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