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    Validate Me! (How My Mom's Hoarding Kind of Messed Me Up.)

    By Melissa Patton

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    Compulsive hoarding damages house structures, threatens safety and health, drains bank accounts, and estranges a hoarder from the rest of society. It goes way beyond just saving stuff. It goes deeper than just being a pack-rat. It is a very real disorder, and it affects more than the hoarder. In this brief memoir, Melissa shares her struggles growing up as the daughter of a hoarder, her reality TV experience and the events that followed, and her journey through the therapy she did not realize she needed. "Validate Me! (How my mom's hoarding kind of messed me up.)" opens your eyes to the most important “things” that get destroyed under the piles.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLulu.com
    Release dateAug 5, 2015
    ISBN9781329425040
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    Validate Me! (How My Mom's Hoarding Kind of Messed Me Up.)
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    Melissa Patton

    Brenda Scott-Coleman is a retired international trade specialist and a designer of CHANGE-A-LETS, a unique earring for ladies who cannot wear traditional earrings. She is also the author of BREN-DEE: A Child Who Survived on Bookmarks, a story about the challenges she faced as a child with facial differences and how she fought that adversity. Her latest book, The Girl with Many Faces, is written for children who have difficulty making friends. Her most important goal in life now is to reach out to children with differences, praying that her stories will be an inspiration to them. She also hopes that her stories will teach children that we are all different in our own special way.

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