
"Hoarders" is an often painful look inside a disease that can bury its sufferer -- literally at times -- in its symptoms. Each hourlong episode profiles two people on the verge of a personal crisis, all caused by the fact that they are unable to part with even the tiniest possessions, and the cumulative effect becomes a mountain of junk and garbage overtaking their home or apartment. If they don't respond to professional help, the consequences sometimes involve eviction, kids being taken away, or even jail time.
2500 rats drive a man out of his home; a daughter has turned her dad's home into a mess.
A woman's house is stuffed with dolls; another woman must crawl over garbage to get to her chair.
A hoarder's child is removed from his home; woman's hoarding is so bad a homeless woman lives there.
A man's house is so junk-filled that he lives in a trailer on his property; a hoarding wife.