Hoarders

Debra has filled her house with an avalanche of clothes and run up a $50,000 debt. Fed up, her husband and children are threatening to leave her. Patty has stuffed her house with so many cardboard boxes that she's had to move to her son's apartment.

Doug, who suffered severe brain trauma and memory loss in an accident, hoards items he feels might trigger his memories. Ruth has turned her beautiful home into a shrine for the three members of her family who died there.

Charles' house is filled with thousands of the nude paintings he has done. His obsession is so extreme that it's destroyed his marriages. Alvin's hoarding is so out of control that he's been forced to put his TV and food cooler in his bathroom.

Shanna owns the worst hoard in "Hoarders" history -- a house crammed floor to ceiling with bottles filled with human waste. Meanwhile, Lynda is hoarding stuff for the Armageddon. She believes she's going to be raptured.

Joni's hoarding drove her two sons to turn to drugs to cope, and it forced Child Protective Services to take her granddaughter away from her. Millie has agreed to more than one clean-up, only to relapse and start hoarding again.

Manuel was living in his hoarded house with his four grandchildren, but they were removed by Child Protective Services. Meanwhile, Carla has had three failed marriages, and, as if to represent each husband, Carla has hoarded out three homes.

Susan's addicted to buying and selling cars and electronics, but she never manages to sell much. Michael's father was a Nazi SS member who ruled his son with an iron fist, and now Michael is a hoarder.

Terry's fridge is packed with dead cats, and she has another 50 live ones. Her son thinks her problems stem from the time her father died in front of her when she was a child. Adelle's using a bucket for a bathroom and doing laundry in a kiddie pool.

BG and Lee have filled their million-dollar Victorian home with a hoard of stuff -- and now are even competing to see who can bring in the most items. Chris has filled his house and eight storage units with worthless junk that he gets for free.

Jan is in denial about her hoarding -- one of her daughters compares her to a viper ready to strike if you dare talk about throwing anything out. Bebe's privileged life unraveled, and now, her hoarding is so bad that she steals stuff when she's at church.

Merlene had it all, but her storybook life fell apart when she got divorced, and now her house is crammed to the ceiling with her dumpster dive finds. Jeff lost his shoe repair business and moved all the contents of the business into his home.

A victim of abuse as a child, Diana's hoarding became so extreme that her daughter was forced to sleep in a recliner because the trash had overtaken her room. Dolores was once an antiques dealer, but her buying got out of hand.

A pair of former punk rockers, Fuzzie and Fredd are living like teenagers well into middle age and have stuffed their home with records, toys, comics and more. Nancy's home is filled with empty dog food cans, heaps of dirty clothes and rat-chewed boxes.

Find out what happened to five of the most memorable hoarders years after they faced a crisis due to their hoard. Did the help from the Hoarders Team ultimately change their lives for the better or did they revert back to their old ways?