Will you live in this apartment?

[jizwood1]

Just find this:

World’s Most Disgusting Apartment Is In Houston (http://photographyparadise.weebly.com/most-disgusting-apartment-is-in-houston.html)

Just wondering will anyone live in that kind of apartment...

[r.j.s]

Absolutely disgusting. You'll never find me there.

[leekohler]

That's the result of a mental disorder called "hoarding". It's pretty bad, too. My aunt was like that. She just would never throw anything away. When she died, they had to gut her house. It's really sad.

[blurredline]

That's the result of a mental disorder called "hoarding". It's pretty bad, too. My aunt was like that. She just would never throw anything away. When she died, they had to gut her house. It's really sad.

Whatever it's called, that's absolutely disgusting! I couldn't imagine how that would smell. It might even burn the eyes:eek:

[rdowns]

Wow, I'm speechless.

[r.j.s]

That's the result of a mental disorder called "hoarding". It's pretty bad, too. My aunt was like that. She just would never throw anything away. When she died, they had to gut her house. It's really sad.

I remember seeing some special on TLC or Discovery about that. Some people just cant get rid of anything, and they showed some that were literally freaking out because they didn't have any more room.

[iVeBeenDrinkin']

What is that on the floor in the bathroom?

[leekohler]

I remember seeing some special on TLC or Discovery about that. Some people just cant get rid of anything, and they showed some that were literally freaking out because they didn't have any more room.

Exactly. They feel like they will have some need for all this stuff sometime in the future. I guess it's a really bad insecurity issue.

[r.j.s]

What is that on the floor in the bathroom?

Your guess is as good as anybody else's.

[richard.mac]

troll's house.

WOW… thats seriously disgusiting. but people like this usually have an illness which is the cause of this. its true i saw it on Oprah. they need a clean team but the resident would probably just mess it up again.

[r.j.s]

Here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Pack_Rat) is the WikiPedia link on it.

Part 1 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3akft5wENjw) of the TLC special.

[leekohler]

Here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Pack_Rat) is the WikiPedia link on it.

Yeah, a guy I know at work has a brother in law with it. They finally had to go into the house and clear it out by order of the city. The pictures were frightening- much worse than this one.

[EV0LUTION]

I did my senior project in high school on hoarding. It's a very interesting disorder.

This is truly an extreme case.

[63dot]

Just find this:

World’s Most Disgusting Apartment Is In Houston (http://photographyparadise.weebly.com/most-disgusting-apartment-is-in-houston.html)

Just wondering will anyone live in that kind of apartment...

I have almost seen the equivalent, belonging to a brilliant PhD programmer with Asperger's, not unlike the man from the movie, "A Beautiful Mind".

Another famous trashed house is the original Van Halen studio from the late-70s or early 80s. OMFG, but I won't post that here as it will make people sick, literally. It was during the band's really heavy drinking, and puking days.

[Saikou]

It's my roommates place in 10 years! :rolleyes:

[Surely]

I suddenly feel like pizza.

[JBazz]

There were some pics circulating on the internet some time back showing Whitney Houstons house. Her bathroom was seriously nasty, nasty, nasty.

[Bargsbeer]

Mental illness is not excuse for living like a Pig. People like this need their asses kicked.

[InvalidUserID]

I've seen my fair share of nasty apartments (namely a friend and his two college friends, ugh) but that takes the cake.

I don't think they'll be getting their deposit back!

[Melrose]

We have a rental property immediately next door to us (otherwise an owner-lived-in residential neighbourhood) and every time a family moves out they find this type of thing... probably not that bad, but I've heard the basement gets completely filled with trash and they regularly pee in the corners of the rooms and on the furniture - it must be a class of person because every time a new, unrelated family moves in it's the same thing all over again.

That photo set couldn't be done any better if it was a Hollywood set done up to the last detail to be that way..

[Aea]

I would faint truth be told, the pictures look horrible but I can only imagine how terrible it must smell.

[runplaysleeprun]

I used to work in community development in a smallish town (aprox pop 35,000) and we had a few houses like this, one I remember was a lot worse, I still get shivers.

[Blue Velvet]

Mental illness is not excuse for living like a Pig. People like this need their asses kicked.


Nice. Ass-kicking mentally-ill people. Have some compassion.

I used to know someone with a house like this. It had trenches through the rubbish. She wasn't well at all and later died of an overdose. For her, all this stuff was a comfort.

[63dot]

I have almost seen the equivalent, belonging to a brilliant PhD programmer with Asperger's, not unlike the man from the movie, "A Beautiful Mind".


When I mentioned this to another PhD programmer, he explained that this was not a disease but a lifestyle, that of a doctorate level programmer working on a dissertation or serious post-Doc research.

He told me once he sat at the computer for 48 hours without eating or sleeping, and only drank coffee and urinated (hopefully in the toilet) because he was so concentrated on making something work in a certain computer language that nobody had done before. He had no idea of the lapse of time until somebody intervened and stopped him and ordered him to bed.

It is typical, he says, for some PhD programmers to become completely oblivious to their surroundings for a day or two and it becomes them and their code. All hearing is gone, there is no sense of smell, no hunger pangs, just this fixated one sided purpose to break through to the other side.

I wonder if this happens to a person like Lance Armstrong during the Tour de France?

[CorvusCamenarum]

Those pics are pretty bad, but I've seen worse when my parents decided to try to get into the real estate market a few years ago. They picked up an almost-foreclosed-on home of an animal hoarder who apparently had never cleaned since she moved in - we're talking years' worth of garbage, rotten food, feces, cats, dogs, rabbits, ferrets, etc. here. How someone was able to live in it and not be chronically ill is beyond me. It turned out to be so horrid they had to basically strip the house down to the studs and concrete slab and start over to make it habitable. They even had to throw out the refrigerator and other assorted appliances as they couldn't be salvaged.

[themoonisdown09]

How did this happen? I can't believe this website has pictures of my apartment on the internet!!! I guess I have to take action now and sue.

No. Really... this is disgusting. I thought it was bad when I would leave some clothes on the floor and maybe some dishes in the sink.

[QuarterSwede]

That's pretty gross but, sadly, it isn't the worst I've seen. Watch "How Clean is Your House (http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/100/index.jsp)" on BBC (BBCA if you're in the states). Those places are NASTY.

[silbeej]

When i saw the iron i lol'ed.

[Big-TDI-Guy]

Mental illness is not excuse for living like a Pig. People like this need their asses kicked.

Wow, talk about ignorance. You obviously have no concept of what mental illness entails, let alone compassion. The second I saw these pictures, I felt bad for this person.

What would really solve the issue here? Beating up someone who likely doesn't even understand that they're doing anything wrong? Or getting someone who is mentally ill some much needed treatment and support?
:rolleyes:

[The Past]

Wow, talk about ignorance. You obviously have no concept of what mental illness entails, let alone compassion. The second I saw these pictures, I felt bad for this person.

What would really solve the issue here? Beating up someone who likely doesn't even understand that they're doing anything wrong? Or getting someone who is mentally ill some much needed treatment and support?
:rolleyes:

True. May be also a good idea to modify your sig then. It pokes fun at another mental illness.

[Big-TDI-Guy]

No, it's poking fun at people who run around the world with BT headsets on all the time. I find it obnoxious at times. (especially if they're in a dark corner of a nice restaurant having an argument with someone on the other end)

[jessica.]

I've seen worse. Usually it is feces all throughout the place, fixtures torn from walls ... disgusting. You wouldn't find me there ever.

[SilvorX]

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that's so very disgusting. I would never want to live in that dump

[dukebound85]

who rents to these people? if i owned that property, id be taking legal action. doesnt anybody do reference checks?

[Big-TDI-Guy]

There is nothing to say that the landlord isn't some slumlord. Also - say things started out fine for the first year, but got out of hand later on.

It could happen here, only time I've seen my landlord is to sign the annual lease extension. I'd think he was dead if he wasn't cashing the checks every month.

[Foxtrot Oscar]

All in favor of a New World Order and Eugenics raise a hand.

It's all very well saying get the person some help, but when they are your neighbor and you know that they've had help and lots of it. The story gets real old real fast!

If people want to live that way, fine, that's personal choice, go and do it away from people that don't want to small your 3 year old pizza boxes. Don't they have rules against the smell? And talk about fire risk, it's a wonder how they didn't burn themselves alive probably taking someone's lovely old granny and someone else's beautiful children with them.

Fox

[n8mac]

There are some people that will never understand or have compassion for the mentally ill, unless they get ill themselves. I myself am mentally ill and live a halfway normal life (OK, not so normal). Some people around me get it and some don't regardless of how much I talk about it.

One thing that people need to be told is that in almost all cases of mental illness, it is not that persons fault no matter how odd they act. They are responisble for their medicine though.

Years ago I heard a story on the news about someone with the same condition I have getting shot and killed just because the people around him didn't want to believe he was ill. I have never been able to shake it. Sadly I might have said something similar to 'Bargsbeer' before I became ill. But I have grown in the last 8 years.

[EV0LUTION]

Mental illness is not excuse for living like a Pig. People like this need their asses kicked.

It would not surprise me if you have OSD

[Bargsbeer]

It would not surprise me if you have OSD



A big part of the problem in this country is that everyone needs a crutch. Everyone has a disorder,ailment ,depression,anxiety,ADD,ADHD,OCD or some kind of phobia....Maybe the person who lived here was a pig. Why do we have to make excuses for them? Isn't there any accountability anymore? Is anyone responsible for anything in they do? Or do we blame it on one of many possible crutches?

[iVeBeenDrinkin']

A big part of the problem in this country is that everyone needs a crutch. Everyone has a disorder,ailment ,depression,anxiety,ADD,ADHD,OCD or some kind of phobia....Maybe the person who lived here was a pig. Why do we have to make excuses for them? Isn't there any accountability anymore? Is anyone responsible for anything in they do? Or do we blame it on one of many possible crutches?

It is hard for me, a person in his right mind, to believe anyone in their right mind would choose to live like that.

[jessica.]

who rents to these people? if i owned that property, id be taking legal action. doesnt anybody do reference checks?

WTF is a reference check going to do? The guy/girl/people could very well be awesome but they're sloppy. I know a Professor at UCLA that I once had to do an eviction on (7+ years ago) who lived worse than this. Seriously, there's really no way of telling. Even if there were checks, this habit can easily develop over time.

[Bargsbeer]

It is hard for me, a person in his right mind, to believe anyone in their right mind would choose to live like that.



I agree, But it doesn't mean they get a free pass. A lot of people are not in there right mind.

[dukebound85]

WTF is a reference check going to do? The guy/girl/people could very well be awesome but they're sloppy. I know a Professor at UCLA that I once had to do an eviction on (7+ years ago) who lived worse than this. Seriously, there's really no way of telling. Even if there were checks, this habit can easily develop over time.

reference as in past landlord references.....

you know, a standard practice when renting a place. chances are that it had been a problem at past residences if someone had this condition

[FrankieTDouglas]

I thought I was bad. How do they even walk around in that?

[philbeeney]

What is that on the floor in the bathroom?

Probably the remains of the missing cats.

[joepunk]

That's pretty gross but, sadly, it isn't the worst I've seen. Watch "How Clean is Your House (http://www.bbcamerica.com/content/100/index.jsp)" on BBC (BBCA if you're in the states). Those places are NASTY.

And I thought they had it bad. Of course I only see reruns on BBCA atm.

[thomahawk]

i feel like im going to throw up...

[ntrigue]

Imagine how obese that person was. Chain-smoking and exclusively supersized fast food diet? Death at 30.

[dilbert4life]

I saw that and about puked........disgusting. You wouldn't catch me living there......ever.......in a million years......:apple:

[Abstract]

When i saw the iron i lol'ed.

I did the same when I saw the soap, shampoo, and cleaning spray, all sitting along the side of the bathtub. :p

Looking at what appear to be used tampons and towels all over the bathroom, I thought, "nice touch".

[Peterkro]

It's obviously a piece of art,the state of the apartment is a very accurate metaphor for what western capitalist/consumerist society is doing to the planet. Those that are horrified and claim they would never live like that have a look around you that's what your doing to the planet.

[JNB]

I have seen much worse working for Red Cross Disaster Services. I entered one apartment and it was floor-to-ceiling (literally) with trash. There were "paths" from room to room. You felt like you were in an archeological dig of a landfill.

[Jelite]

Im a PC

http://cdn.holytaco.com/www/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/houston_mess_apartment_slob_disgusting_13.jpg

Typical windows user:rolleyes:

:D

[nick9191]

Most of the hoarders I have seen are quite clean, they have a load of junk yes, but they keep it clean. Unless people are starting to hoard fag ash and dust now days. That is just pure laziness, not hoarding.

[iGary]

Mental illness is not excuse for living like a Pig. People like this need their asses kicked.

So you think people in their right mind like living like this? Have some class.

[sushi]

I've seen places like this before.

Surprising and smelling.

One place I remember vividly, was a fellow who collected magazines of all sorts. His home was filled with magazines stacked from the floor to about 4 to 4.5 feet throughout the house.

To move around his home, there were pathways in each room.

Before he got old, he knew where a magazine resided. Say you want to see Popular Mechanics, June 1972, issue. He would know exactly where to find it. Amazing.

[gilkisson]

It's obviously a piece of art,the state of the apartment is a very accurate metaphor for what western capitalist/consumerist society is doing to the planet. Those that are horrified and claim they would never live like that have a look around you that's what your doing to the planet.

Good point. Of course, the environment was vastly improved in those countries behind the Iron Curtain for all those decades. Veritable Eden. Chernobyl is now a garden.

Don't generalize.

[bartelby]

Mental illness is not excuse for living like a Pig. People like this need their asses kicked.

What a ridiculously stupid comment.

You obviously have absolutely no idea what mental illnesses can do to people.

[Abstract]

I think the question we're all dying to know is: Is she single?

[Peterkro]

Good point. Of course, the environment was vastly improved in those countries behind the Iron Curtain for all those decades. Veritable Eden. Chernobyl is now a garden.

Don't generalize.

I wasn't generalising I was being very specific.Of course the old state capitalist countries did and do throw out huge amounts of pollution but not as much as western countries and for a shorter time.I don't mean to exclude any polluters just to point out the largest ones.

[arkitect]

Just so sad.

When you look past the horror of it (granted, not easy) you see the remnants of a life.

Someone had a decent life, once. Or at least the semblance of one.

How does it go so wrong?

We can sit here and laugh, but imagine when things just "get out of control"?

That being said, I feel sorry for the cats. Their litter tray is in beter shape than the apartment… hopefully they decamped a long time ago.
:(

[gilkisson]

I wasn't generalising I was being very specific.Of course the old state capitalist countries did and do throw out huge amounts of pollution but not as much as western countries and for a shorter time.I don't mean to exclude any polluters just to point out the largest ones.

Mental illness isn't an ideological condition, it's a human condition. The conditions described in this thread are not driven by politics, they are created by mental illness.

As for pollution, there is no human society which does not pollute. It's a question of degree.

And you meant to say "old state communist".

[Peterkro]

Mental illness isn't an ideological condition, it's a human condition. The conditions described in this thread are not driven by politics, they are created by mental illness.

As for pollution, there is no human society which does not pollute. It's a question of degree.

And you meant to say "old state communist".

No I meant to say state capitalist for that is what they were,political parties who use words like communist,liberal,socialist,conservative or democratic in their titles are generally anything but. What I originally posted was (I thought) a light hearted way to point out the macro in the micro perhaps not too clearly. The person who lived in the apartment may have been mentally ill maybe not,because someone has different ways of living from the norm in their society doesn't necessarily make them mentally ill. Yes it is very much a question of degree which is why I attempted to lay the blame squarely where it belongs. Have a nice day.

[gilkisson]

No I meant to say state capitalist for that is what they were,political parties who use words like communist,liberal,socialist,conservative or democratic in their titles are generally anything but. What I originally posted was (I thought) a light hearted way to point out the macro in the micro perhaps not too clearly. The person who lived in the apartment may have been mentally ill maybe not,because someone has different ways of living from the norm in their society doesn't necessarily make them mentally ill. Yes it is very much a question of degree which is why I attempted to lay the blame squarely where it belongs. Have a nice day.

Wow. Ok. I guess when the only tool you care to use is a hammer, all problems tend to look like nails, eh?

Have a nice dialectic, um, day.

[Dagless]

Damn I hate the press. "Worlds most..." okay, so how do you know it's the "worlds most"? I've seen worse places like that. The guy was such a hoarder that he even bottled is own faeces and urine.

My gran's a bit of a hoarder too. She lives in a regular terraced house but the whole upstairs is full of old clothes she'll never wear again and bits and bobs collected since the 60's. We're going through it at the moment and even though the house is small and clean, it's taking a hell of a long time.

[gibbz]

Exactly. They feel like they will have some need for all this stuff sometime in the future. I guess it's a really bad insecurity issue.

I am glad to have the girlfriend that I do. She is good at making me throw things out. "Keep the memories, get rid of the ******" she tells me. I am not at the level of these people, but I often find myself justifying a future need for some of the most mundane items. I hope I never get this bad.

Mental illness is not excuse for living like a Pig. People like this need their asses kicked.

It is ignorant comments like this that perpetuate the stigma of mental illness. Would you denigrate someone with cancer? How about AIDS? People with mental disorders are no different, so why treat them like they have control over things for which they do not. I feel sorry for you.

[imac/cheese]

Mental illness is not excuse for living like a Pig. People like this need their asses kicked.

From what I understand, hoarding is often a part of OCD. OCD is has been shown to be a biological disorder where part of the brain (basal ganglia) does not function properly. It is the same part of the brain that malfunctions when a person has Parkinson's Disease. So your comment is equivalent to saying that Michael J. Fox needs his ass kicked for his cluttered speech. :(

[EV0LUTION]

A big part of the problem in this country is that everyone needs a crutch. Everyone has a disorder,ailment ,depression,anxiety,ADD,ADHD,OCD or some kind of phobia....Maybe the person who lived here was a pig. Why do we have to make excuses for them? Isn't there any accountability anymore? Is anyone responsible for anything in they do? Or do we blame it on one of many possible crutches?

HAHA love it. something philosophical out of a rude comment. Great spin. You should be a lawyer.

[doubleohseven]

Maybe the apartment owner's windows were wide open while a landfill avalanche occurred. You never know.

[SLC Flyfishing]

Sorta reminds me of the Great Garbage Avalanche of 2505 scene in that movie Idiocracy.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xwi4y_the-great-garbage-avalanche-of-2505_fun

SLC

[decksnap]

Are you kidding? I've seen ten times worse homes on 'cops'. This place looks like they set it with props (except the bathroom).

I always feel bad for the cats.

[iVeBeenDrinkin']

You guys are being rude to someone with a mental disability because he was rude to someone with a mental disability?

:eek: Looks like he disappeared.

[Bargsbeer]

Why is everyone assuming this person is mentally ill? Just because they live in a filthy home,Now they are mentally ill?

[gilkisson]

Why is everyone assuming this person is mentally ill? Just because they live in a filthy home,Now they are mentally ill?

You're right. They should be beaten. How dare they live like slobs! Cane them, I say!

And all those slackers in hospitals! Whip them into shape!

Replace youth activity centers with boot camps!

......

And what happens when you or yours comes down with something that others would diagnose as a disorder, but you call laziness? Just leave them outside in the winter, let the wolves deal with it?

[Bargsbeer]

You're right. They should be beaten. How dare they live like slobs! Cane them, I say!

And all those slackers in hospitals! Whip them into shape!

Replace youth activity centers with boot camps!

......

And what happens when you or yours comes down with something that others would diagnose as a disorder, but you call laziness? Just leave them outside in the winter, let the wolves deal with it?



I never said anything about people in hospitals or people with legitimate ailments/diseases.I never said anything about laziness or youth activity. I simply stated that assuming this person is mentally ill just because they live like a pig was ridiculous. Mental illness or whatever you want to call it is something that is used by too many people.Just like the people who get a handicap tag because they have a bad back or because they are too fat instead of the people that really need it.

[gilkisson]

I never said anything about people in hospitals or people with legitimate ailments/diseases.I never said anything about laziness or youth activity. I simply stated that assuming this person is mentally ill just because they live like a pig was ridiculous. Mental illness or whatever you want to call it is something that is used by too many people.Just like the people who get a handicap tag because they have a bad back or because they are too fat instead of the people that really need it.

And you hate them fakers who get to park closer to Wal-mart than you so, don't ya? A bad back isn't a "real" problem, is it? Put a boot up their arse, make 'em straighten up, no more slacking off. Arbeit macht frei, right?

You know so much about so many things, Doctor. Tell me, are their any valid mental disorders? Would you care to list them?