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The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in the Business of Death, Decay, and Disaster

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“If we all talked to each other in this way, with warm camaraderie and complete non-judgement, much pain would be spared and happiness generated.”

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“...hard loneliness, that type of desperation that makes one accept the stab wound of familiarity as a substitute for true connection.”

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“Sandra picked up a bottle and threw it at her. Just missed the TV by a bee's dick.”

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“I think back to the years when I barely left my room, when the pills I took each day for anxiety and depression made the light hurt my skin and my hands tremble too hard to hold a pen. How I devoured books, lying in the fetal position in the dark until my hips hurt against the mattress. How much I needed the desolate predictability, the safeties of stillness and solitude. Beyond distraction or entertainment was just the perfect permanence of the written word and the camaraderie embroidered in its silence.”

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“Hoarding does not discriminate on the basis of income or intellect.”

Mental Health Hoarding

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“What's the difference between a private library and a book hoarder?' he wonders. We are both silent before chuckling and answering in unison: 'Faeces.”

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“I have a firm belief that we change the concept of the house from what it was, so that they have in their mind that things are different now. It helps with their processes of dealing with the change, and then it's a constant reminder that they're not following the same patterns and things need to be different.”

Environmental Awareness

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