The small paths in Michelle's house are the only way she can get to her collection of more than 60 birds. Her husband of 30 years has been chased from the home by the animals and the hoarded piles that in some places reach five feet high.

Linda's family has been ripped apart by hoarding. She wants nothing more than to have a relationship with her grown children, but they refuse to come near her house, which is packed waist and neck high.

When rescue workers were called to Judi's home they found her stuck in massive amounts of clutter and were forced to remove her through the kitchen window. The city condemned her home and she was placed in a rehabilitation facility.

Dennis and his wife Nadene are compulsive hoarders who blame one another for the clutter and mess that has completely consumed their home.

Janet's picture perfect life crumbled when her husband of 32 years died while waiting for a heart transplant.

Kerrylea and her husband Geoffrey are facing imminent foreclosure on two houses. After her hoarding filled the first home, she convinced her husband that the only way to solve her lifelong problem was to buy an additional home.

14 years ago, Jason was removed from his mother Augustine's home by Child Protective Services because of her hoarding.

Gail's house is literally falling in around her. With no heat, cracking walls, a leaking ceiling and bowing floor boards, Gail desperately needs to make repairs but can't because the house is packed full. Gail has to go in for major surgery in two weeks.

Bob and Betsey's home is filled with broken furniture, appliances, food, piles of clothes, mounds of books and toys.

28-year-old June lives in a mobile home filled with keepsakes like Care Bears and Cabbage Patch dolls. She's not only facing violations of the city's fire codes, but a strained relationship with her 13-year-old daughter.