Hoarding Disorder Expert
Beautiful Stories From Anonymous People
Chris Gethard
4.8 • 9K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 83 minutes
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Summary
This week's caller has dedicated her life to understanding hoarding disorder. Years ago, she married someone whose relationship with collecting changed the course of her own life. Now she's on a mission to educate others and replace stigma with compassion. She and Gethard get into what hoarding really looks like, the reasons people find it hard to let go, and how shows like Hoarders have turned personal struggle into public spectacle.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello to everybody who has that tattoo. |
| 0:08.3 | You know the one. |
| 0:10.1 | It's beautiful anonymous one hour, one phone call. |
| 0:13.3 | No names. |
| 0:14.4 | No holds barred. |
| 0:17.0 | I'd rather go one-on-one. |
| 0:19.6 | I think it'll be more fun |
| 0:21.7 | and I'll get to know you |
| 0:24.3 | and you'll get to know me |
| 0:27.0 | Hi everybody |
| 0:28.0 | I know not everybody likes a long intro |
| 0:30.4 | I get it skip about six minutes ahead |
| 0:33.2 | that'll put you right towards the end of the intro |
| 0:35.2 | Thanks so much enjoy |
| 0:40.9 | Hi everyone that I'll put you right towards the end of the intro. Thanks so much. Enjoy. Hi, everybody, Chris Getherd here. |
| 0:43.6 | Welcome to another episode of Beautiful Anonymous, as I sometimes say, a show where we look |
| 0:48.6 | at the human condition, one anonymous phone call at a time. |
| 0:51.4 | That is true this week, maybe as much or more than any other. |
| 0:58.1 | Looking at some very specific conditions of the human condition. I'll talk about that |
| 1:04.5 | momentarily. Thanks so much to everybody who has been ordering t-shirts at chrisgather.bigartel.com. I try to pack up like |
| 1:14.6 | 10 a day. If you're waiting on an order, just keep in mind I'm doing it myself. Andrea has |
| 1:21.1 | offered to help. My friend Jared came by the office one day. He helped a little bit, but by and |
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