After looking at Spencer's latest links, I was struck by two things-emotional trauma and hoarders of things. My friend previously mentioned also (1)hoarded things - probably 99% useless junk and trash that she for some reason felt the need to hold on to (and I really mean trash-I was not editorializing-things such as empty coke bottles and such) and (2) her husband killed himself. Previously to that tragic event she was not a hoarder.