I know a hoarder, but she has never had a personal tragedy cause her problem. Since a young age this person has kept everything. Things are not packed away, and everything just lays around floor to ceiling everywhere. All her rooms have been an awful sight. The smell in the kitchen was horrible, with piled up dishes and food still on them, and the occasional cat peeing on the mess. The mess has been dug into a bit in the last couple years, by her grown children doing the job. She could not stand to see it piled for pickup and would often drag things back into the house. Since then it gets either hauled away in a rented truck, or is put for bulky item pickup in boxes so it is not visable. Her yard was piled with dozens of broken and rusted bicycles, lawn chairs, and assorted items. Twice I talked her into disposing of the yard junk piles with volunteer help and a couple loads with big trucks. She has brought a lot of animals to her home, but does not lock them in the house, and many cats have run off after a while. The dogs she kept inside used her house as their bathroom. It would lay there for a long time. Stinky, stinky, stinky. Her big two car garage has been filled to the brim since she moved in about 30 years ago, and still is. In this hot and humid weather, things rot quickly, and this garage is truly a trash collection now. When someone is of this mind, it is almost impossible to help them change.