[linda_22003]

Then you've never heard of the Collyer brothers, two Brooklyn brothers who shared the hoarding obsession, back in the 1940s. One was in a wheelchair, and the other did everything for his brother. A pile of junk collapsed on the mobile brother, and the other starved to death upstairs.

[ReignOfError]

http://www.ocfoundation.org/1005/m140a_001.htm It's an OCD site, so there's a lot of clinical stuff non-pshrinks will probably want to skim through, but it's a fascinating story.