Look, guys, I'm going to be real with y'all.
I got to transform this living room back into a livable condition
within the next five days.
And I'm not sure if that'll be possible due to the amount of urine jugs
that we found throughout the property and just the sheer volume of stuff
and trash we got to take out.
Not to mention these urine jugs got to get emptied out by hand.
And obviously you can't step on.
And I know what you guys are thinking.
You're probably like, how in the freak does anyone live
in hundreds of gallons of their own urine?
So let's talk about that psychologically on how this could be possible.
And don't forget to stick around to the end
because I got all the finished results over there.
And you're going to want to see that in case you didn't know.
Trauma isn't just about like emotions and stuff.
It physically changes your brain, right?
It can literally rewire how you think, how you feel,
and even how you clean your house.
When someone experiences chronic trauma like abuse,
a loss of a loved one or extreme stress,
the brain will adapt to survive the environment.
So that means the part of the brain that controls our fear and our emotions,
the amygdala, right?
That part gets really, really big after trauma occurs.
And the part that helps with decision making and organizing,
you know, the prefrontal cortex, that part gets weaker.
So that means things like sorting, throwing stuff away or even cleaning
can feel impossible after traumatic events like this occur.
So when you see extreme hoarding like this, it's not
it's usually not just about laziness or bad habits and that sort of thing.
It's literally a brain that's been rewired, usually through trauma.
And so it just, I don't know, it just makes you think like,
how bad was the freaking trauma that this guy experienced
that led to the situation?
Like, it's got to be pretty intense.
I don't know this guy's story.
All I know is I have a job to do and no one deserves to live like this.
So I don't know.
That's just how I feel about it.
But all this trash I'm standing on top of has to get taken out into the dump.
So this is how I like to do it.
Easy peasy, man.
But with that said, the last part of these projects is to rip up
all the carpet, which is oftentimes one of the most grueling parts of the job,
just because it's so hot in that hazmat suit by now.
And all we really want to do is just be done.
But I got that carpet up in the carpet pad
and we got this place looking really, really good again.
Check this out.
This was a ton of hard work, and I'm honestly surprised all of it got done,
but we still have a little bit more work to do out here in the kitchen.
So check out the next video for an update on that.
