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There was a rash running up and down her legs and she was eating moldy food that the landlady had retrieved from the garbage cans and was serving people." "The woman who we started the series with was lying on a mattress, drenched in urine, with piles of spent toilet paper around the room. "When you go around to these rooming houses, it's horrifying," said Meg Kissinger, who reported the story. Hoarding occurs in about 1 to 2 percent of the population, according to Randy Frost, a psychology professor at Smith College who wrote "Buried Treasures," a self-help book for hoarders. The syndrome was named for Diogenes, a Greek philosopher of the fourth century B.C., who advanced the principles of self-sufficiency and contentment unrelated to material possessions - a misnomer - given the nature of the disorder, which causes people to hoard animals and belongings. The eccentric Beale pair - the first cousin and aunt of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis - is a classic example of what has also been called squalor disorder, which especially affects the elderly.
#DIOGENES SYNDROME. MOVIE#
17, 2007 - The Broadway musical "Grey Gardens" - headed for Tony nominations and a Hollywood movie - highlights the fall of socialite Edie Bouvier Beale and her mother, Edith, who lived in a squalid 28-room mansion among scores of flea-infested cats and raccoons, and towers of dirty cans.īut the hit show also highlights Diogenes syndrome, a disorder characterized by self-neglect, domestic squalor and social withdrawal.