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Living With Hoarders In Coming Clean By Kimberly Rae Walker

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The Battle Living With Hoarders When you think of obsessive compulsive disorder or OCD what comes to mind? One thing that comes to mind is someone who is extremely organized and everything has to be perfect. Another thing that comes to mind is someone who is a germaphobe that washes their hands constantly. But after reading the book Coming Clean by Kimberly Rae Miller I found out that it’s not just being very organized. I found out that hoarding is a type of OCD. Kimberly explains her whole life in this memoir book. She goes through how living with her hoarding parents was a Battle and how badly it affected her. Kimberly goes from a happy kid to a paranoid young adult that believes there are bugs living in her very clean apartment and even at one point tries to commit suicide. After reading this book I have found out that living in a hoarding lifestyle while not being a hoarder is troublesome. …show more content…

Kimberly remembers her dad’s baby blue Mercury Zephyr and how messy it was. Kimberly states “He pushed aside the shiny loose pages torn from waiting-room magazines, old newspapers, empty cups, and long-ago-used bottles of motor oil and funnels that lived in the backseat to make room for me” (9). This quote from Kimberly’s book emphasizes the point of how hoarding really made an impact on her. Kimberly was just a little girl at this part of the book and she can still remember to this day how messy her dad’s car was. She was disgusted with the filth she had to live with. It even got to the point where she was so involved with her high school so she didn’t have to go back to her house until very late at night Kimberly from when she was a kid to a teen would never have friends over because she didn’t want her friends to see her living in this

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