One of the contributing factors to my boyfriend's depression is his mother's hoarding. It wouldn't be such a huge problem, except that he and I live with his mother. She has a storage unit, so that much of the stuff isn't cluttering the trailer, but storage units are not free. Us three moved last summer about an hour and a half away to the city, and it was very stressful to move all her stuff. My boyfriend got very frustrated that his mother would not throw anything away, not even broken items. It's very easy to just get angry and upset at her, and forget that hoarding is a mental illness just like my problems are illnesses... a hoarder can't just wake up one day and decide by herself to throw half her stuff away... wish that were the case though...