© Courtesy Elizabeth Nelson

Children of Hoarders

A difficult relationship

by Eve Silberman

posted 12/30/2011

Elizabeth Nelson also works to make people aware of the complexities of compulsive hoarding, but with a different emphasis. Nelson is co-founder of Children of Hoarders, a nonprofit that reaches out to people who, like her, grew up in homes to which they were ashamed to bring friends.

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