Interesting read
I love to read nonfiction and am currently reading a memoir about hoarding called Coming Clean. It's amazing the parallels between growing up in an alcoholic home and a home with hoarding. The secrecy, hiding the truth, presenting a facade, the fear that the family secret will be found out. Even the dynamics with the nonhoarder fighting and trying to control the hoarder. The hoarder would even hide bags in closets.
Interesting too how the author recognizes at a young age that her father can't control the hoarding, its like a sickness and she protects her father but resents her mother at times.
The author mentions that in her research on hoarding she came across the statistic that ACOA's are 4x more likely to become hoarders.
A good book for anyone else who likes nonfiction. The author is Kimberly Rae Miller.