To wonder how people aren’t embarrassed by going on “Sort Your Life Out”

[ThePunnyPeachDuck]

Their houses are shit holes and they are sob storying Stacey Solomon

I would rather torch my house and all the stuff in it then have to listen to her screechy voice all day

Just tidy your house up you dirty sods

Give you pills so you don't notice anymore?

Knowing my Dr he would say eat less move more how are your periods? And no matter what the answer to that question is it will be normal or because I'm overweight

I don't watch these programmes as they are rather close to home.Im not a hoarder but I do have a lot of 'stuff' and collections. I love it all.They are important things to me .
I also have a 'returned' daughter who has brought the contents of her house, we are both functioning mental health/adhd with jobs and a couple of animals, lots of interests and hobbies, it really isn't easy.
I want to collate it all into a comfortable and more attractive living space but I would hate millions of people watching me.

🤣🤣🤣 Oh my goodness that was actually a thing on TV Gillian McKeich we called her 🤣

YANBU.
its the 'playing the victim' thing which sticks in my throat.
Awful, embarrassing programme.

You'll always get talked about on Twitter if you on TV, not always very complimentary either.
I wonder if they revert back to their old ways, if so a waste of BBC money.

Some of the earlier shows seemed to have people who had genuinely struggled. Latterly, they’re lazy people who just can’t be arsed to tidy and take a few bits to the charity shop! I feel very sorry for the children who live in messy hovels.

So needing that laugh emoji back. But yes a delight to brighten my dull day.

Same
Clearly the OP has absolutely no clue, it's sometimes not as easy as "sort your house out you dirty sods" 🙄
It's not always that easy. Do you know anything about hoarding, for example? It's a type of mental illness. They get distressed at throwing even so much as a receipt or old tin can out in extreme cases.
You tidy up for them, a few months later they've piled the room full of crap again.
If they've gone onto that show, they're obviously wanting to change but don't know where to start.
Educate yourself instead of sneering.

I don’t think the BBC is financially impacted by whether the guests revert to their old ways afterwards 😊

My house is like the people on that program. I am too embarrassed to go on TV about it, so I suffer in silence amongst my clutter.

Exactly. They can still stick the show in repeat runs for as long as they like!

Well said, and well done.

I agree, @FreezeDriedStrawberries - and even if there were no mental health issues, once a house gets that full, how can people find the space necessary to do the sorting out they need to do? The way that this programme sorts and spaces out all the possessions makes it so much easier to do the sorting and weeding out that needs to be done.

It looks as if a few mumsnetters need to pull their socks up

It's the sheer waste that annoys me. Just don't buy it 😡

I think that the act of acquisition is part of the mental illness for some people, @PrincessofWells. There's a dopamine hit when you buy something, and for some people, there's the feeling of emptiness inside and the belief that the things they buy will fill that. Of course the dopamine hit never lasts, and the things bought never fill the emptiness, but when someone has this sort of mental illness, they can't see those facts - their mind is lying to them and saying that the next purchase will be THE one that cures it all.

You are right that the answer is simply not to buy the stuff, but it's only simple to do when you aren't deeply enmeshed in an illness that is telling you you need all the stuff. The buying is a symptom, and to tackle it properly, you need to deal with the root cause, not just the symptom. This is why the hoarding programmes like Hoarding: Buried Alive have a psychologist as part of the team to tackle really serious hoarding issues - otherwise clearing the house out won't solve anything - the hoard will just build up again.

I suspect that the families on Stacey's programme have much less serious hoarding issues than the HBA programmes, but when she's talking to them, you can see that there are deeper causes to their problems than just 'she buys too much stuff', and they do try to tackle these things too.

You could say it's a waste of licence payers money.

Go round on his day off and help them tidy up?😁

Do you mean it’s a waste of license payer’s money if the results are not long-lasting for the guests of the programme? I would say that it’s judged on whether or not people enjoy the program and therefore the viewing figures justify it? Otherwise how do you justify drama vs reality / documentaries? I think I must have misunderstood you.

@637382gdjdbi think that's the one I was going to mention. The man was finding life so so hard and the house had just got out of hand.

I've not seen this but sounds like desperation if people are willing to be filmed 🤔

You could, but you’d be being a bit daft. The BBC aren’t tidying up for these people as a lovely treat for them. They’re creating content - cheaply at that. The BBC still gets a programme out of it even if the house is full of crap again a week later.