Validate Me! (How My Mom's Hoarding Kind of Messed Me Up.)

Compulsive hoarding damages house structures, threatens safety and health, drains bank accounts, and estranges a hoarder from the rest of society. It goes way beyond just saving stuff. It goes deeper than just being a pack-rat. It is a very real disorder, and it affects more than the hoarder. In this brief memoir, Melissa shares her struggles growing up as the daughter of a hoarder, her reality TV experience and the events that followed, and her journey through the therapy she did not realize she needed. "e;Validate Me! (How my mom's hoarding kind of messed me up.)"e; opens your eyes to the most important "e;things"e; that get destroyed under the piles.