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The long race reality TV series Hole Returned on Monday, January 8 with another season featuring people with a compulsive hobby confronted with their diagnosis and eliminating their dangerous houses. Despite its popularity, some accused the program A&E, which was created in 2009, of exploiting the participants and their mental health problems in order to shock viewers with the conditions in which they live. For example, self-identified hobby Rachel Kramer Bussel written in a 2016 show article "While the experts brought in the show can actually help individual hobby whose disorderly houses are displayed in all their bloody details, what message did he send on these people? In my opinion, it's simple: look at how they are crazy! ""

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In a new interview, two Hole The stars defended it against such criticisms, stressing that hobby receives treatment and that the show also seeks to help viewers at home.

"I do not disagree that there is a shock value," Robin Zasio ,, A psychologist presented on Hole , said USA today . "Sometimes I do not enter - I do this anymore, there is probably less shock value, but there is still a shock - because you see the devastation of the way people live and what it is made to their lives. And it's just a human condition to have compassion for someone in their situation. ""

Zasio explained that all the participants are verified and know what the spectacle implies. "We must understand that these are human beings, we must understand that they come from life circumstances that have seriously or significantly or the two that have led them to certain behaviors that are not functional," She declared. The psychologist said that the participants worked with therapists during their stay in the show, but are also set up after taking care of the cameras. AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB

According to the American Psychiatric Association, "people with hobby disorder Have persistent difficulties in getting rid of or separating goods due to a perceived need to save the articles. Attempts to separate from possessions create considerable distress and lead to decisions to save them. "The consequences of" serious hobby includes health and safety problems, such as fire risks, trigger risks and violations of the health code. This can also lead to family tensions and conflicts, isolation and loneliness, the reluctance to bring someone else's house and perform daily tasks, such as the kitchen and bath at home. ""

Zasio said USA today that during the 15 years since Hole I am created: "We have increased our understanding of how to help people and what they need, and to be able to really face the complexities of the condition." She added that there is "not a single simple response" to the reason why people are theater, which is why the series tries to show what "led to this problem" for each participant.

Professional organizer Dorothy Breinger , who worked with Hole Since his beginning, he also talked to USA today . She said about the participants: "Whatever the situation, they have nowhere to turn and no money to get there ... When it's a particularly good result, it's the most satisfactory thing in the world." The organizer added: "Everyone I met who horrible is a spectacular human with a scandalously incredible life story."

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