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A Place In The Sun’s Jasmine Harman comforted by Alison Hammond as she breaks down in tears on This Morning
She appeared on the show to discuss her mum's life-long struggle and how tough it was growing up in the house
A Place In The Sun host Jasmine Harman broke down in tears on This Morning during an emotional chat about her mum's hoarding struggle.
The star became emotional and was comforted by presenter Alison Hammond, who held Jasmine's hand as she opened up about the mental health condition.
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Jasmine, 47, was joined by her mum who sat quietly as she revealed how tough it was growing up in their house which was full of items her mum refused to throw out.
She said she wanted to keep her mother's hoarding struggle a secret from everyone else and it drove a wedge between them, and they argued all the time over it.
Jasmine said she was terrified to invite friends and dates into the house before she moved out of home.
However, the presenter eventually understood hoarding is an anxiety condition outside of her mum's control.
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She started to cry as she told Alison and Dermot O'Leary: "I'm so grateful to her, because she's helped me to become a more compassionate person.
"Now we have a relationship outside of the hoarding. We used to argue so much."
New guidelines released earlier this year have helped GPs diagnose hoarding as a mental health condition.
The disorder, which affects around 2 per cent of the population, causes people to clutter their homes so much they can’t move about in living spaces.
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But few patients are actually spotted because they often suffer with other mental health issues like obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD).
Now, psychologists have released a guide to help medics recognise and treat the condition.
Dr Sharon Morein, of Anglia Ruskin University, told The Sun the key to knowing if someone is at risk is if having too many things is interfering with their everyday lives.
She said: “Its key symptoms are excessive clutter in the active living space so that people cannot undertake everyday activities such as cooking, sleeping or washing.
“Additionally, difficulty with discarding so they find it very distressing to part with possessions, or obtaining too many items to begin with.
“Whilst many people in the population can resonate with some of these, it is when these behaviours are distressing to the individual and those around them, and impair the everyday functioning and quality of life over time, that they would be considered for hoarding disorder.”
Hoarding disorder was only recognised as a mental health condition in 2019, having previously been classified as a symptom of OCD.
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