Tv Show - Ptsd - Crawling With Disgust

[shimmerz]

I don't have words for this. Hoarding, Buried Alive. I have never watched it before. I watch very little television.

I don't even know what to say about what I am seeing here. I find it hard to watch.... and the link I am providing only shows highlights (if that's what you want to call them) and gives a commentary on this particular episode.

I need to really figure out how to not tell people about my PTSD if this is what is being fed through the media. I am so incredibly disturbed by this. And I actually want to choke the crap out of the psychologist who states 'I don't think you have had the right kind of treatment - I will do exposure work with you'. Unbelievable.

Is Hoarding: Buried Alive's 'mentally ill' man reality TV gone too far? | Daily Mail Online

 

[Ronin]

The show is for shock effect & the news is a greatly gossip kind of a reporter.

I'm not sure sensationalism is a reflection on anyone's idea; they might as well hear it first from you, and not take that exposure for much, IMHO.

 

[Friday]

Since hoarding itself is a mental illness, and the entire show is founded on gawking / pointing&laughing at sick people? The horror of comorbid PTSD means it's now gone too far? (According to the article). I just find sad. The whole show is gross. This is just gilding the lily.

As far as what "people" think? Shrug. There will always be classless junk out there & trifling people. Whether they're watching the babble box, or f*cking with homeless people. I couldn't care less what those people think of me.

 

[Ronin]

& One thing to keep in mind: Those suckers complaining about hoarders & the homeless people?

Wouldn't survive a day on the streets. So think of that: Some forms of hoarding can be seen as seeing usefulness in everything, just not being able to let go of things, problematic for other reasons, and homeless people seeing use and finding just the darn thing they're looking for in situations nobody else provides? Badass resourceful.

What anyone else thinks? Unimportant. Coming down from their high horse? They'd end up dead. Which, without being spiteful, amuses the hell out of me any time seeing judgment.

 

[shimmerz]

I have never seen this show before. It looked totally staged. Millions of things on the bathroom floor, but the bathroom was brilliantly clean. The article, regardless of its source, was very reflective of the show content. How they call this reality is beyond me.

What is incredibly annoying to me is that this psychologist drags him into a school (his trigger), tells him to read a letter that she found that related to his trauma and bing.bang.boom, he is all better again. House is clean, he is smiling, everyone is eating pizza in the house together.

The premise of this show was that this man didn't love his daughters enough and this psychologist fixed it in one session in his most triggery place. It worries me that others who are fighting PTSD (or worse still their families) see this as the 'reality' of how to deal with someone who has PTSD.

TV is so hard for me. I shouldn't be watching it. Thanks guys.

 

[ladee]

I was gifted a brand new TV from a friend for Christmas. I NEVER watch TV. I don't have money for internet or even an outside antenna. The things I could have done with what that TV cost.

 

[Deleted member 541]

I believe it's all about the ratings. That's pretty much how they gauge if a show is to be shitlisted or if it will continue into the next season. Whatever gets the viewers to watch, some stations will put it on the air.

I know what you're saying @shimmerz But truly, the stations will use anything or anyone to get the ratings. Look at all of the shows about obese people. I think they use these people too, or the "little people??? Exploiting whoever they can and using whomever they can to get the ratings...

It's just not about PTSD, it's anything and everything !!!!!

 

[jaccat]

There's a UK show where people with supposed OCD tackle the houses of hoarders, and their owners, head to head. I've never watched it, because just the concept is absurd. Anybody who knows anything about either of those disorders knows, if that's real, it's a bad idea. But somehow, I don't think it's real. Reality TV is never reality.

That's not to say that they wouldn't/don't exploit vulnerable people, given the chance.

 

[shimmerz]

It's just not about PTSD, it's anything and everything !!!!!

Fair enough. That's the thing with not watching tv. It honestly shocks me what people watch.

But somehow, I don't think it's real. Reality TV is never reality.

I find this whole thing repulsive. Worst name ever is 'reality tv'. It seems like a form of gaslighting.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

I very much dislike "Hoarding: Buried Alive" on TLC and prefer (if I were to like either) "Hoarders" on A&E. Why? Because "Hoarders" actually have a psycholohist that helps, a cleaning crew, an organization specialist, and most important, aftercare. They also help families to understand the mental illness and often help families reunite and help support. So the Hoarder gets actual help that they need, which is nice to watch. From what I've seen of "Hoarding: Buried Alive" it is the family trying to force it or they are missing the psychologist and the aftercare. I really did not like "Hoarding: Buried Alive" on TLC at all! "Hoarders" on A&E is a different story.

 

[lalazagna]

Yeay, finally a psychiatrist that can cure PTSD! and in just a day!

Oh my, was just writing almost the same thing almost word for word

Was more into "Hoarders", than Hoarders - Buried alive, they seem to have more Narcissists who are hoarders on that show, most of whom are very obvious that they do love their stuff more than their children, yet the psychiatrists on that show seem to show far more sympathy to them, then on "Buried Alive"
On Hoarders you don't get the whole "fixed in a day" impression, and have everyone back playing happy families at the end. They explain the illness to the families, and try and get them to help the hoarder, no blaming.

The psychiatrist on this episode... was just disturbing. Invalidating. Victim shaming.

 

[lostforgottensoul]

What is incredibly annoying to me is that this psychologist drags him into a school (his trigger), tells him to read a letter that she found that related to his trauma and bing.bang.boom, he is all better again. House is clean, he is smiling, everyone is eating pizza in the house together.

That was my point with "Hoarders" on A&E. Yes they show before and after but they stress how important aftercare is and do updates (like on the end of "Intervention") where they do a small written update then they do shows to update on past episodes. It is stressed so hard that this is a mental illness that takes a long time and hard work to overcome and that the 3 days they are there isn't a quick fix or any sort of fix.

That's the huge difference in the shows. "Hoarding Buried Alive" is a shock value, gasp, hold mouth, oh my god, show. Disgusting!