Quote Originally Posted by kib View Post
And on some level, I do get it. When something is your passion and drive, when you put all your energy into the care and maintenance of something and then "they" decide it should be taken from you, that's got to induce a cocktail of miserable emotions; grief, rage, emptiness, resentment, maybe shame. In the case of hoarding which often seems linked to a sense of security, add in terror. Hoarding misplaces that passion and drive onto material objects in unhealthy and potentially dangerous ways, but I doubt that changes the feelings associated with losing your creation.
I wonder if there is an emergency protocol for when emergency workers (EMTs, etc.) know they will have to separate a hoarder from their hoard...

The hoarder probably needs to be sedated, maybe physically restrained so they don't jump in front of a bulldozer or something. Maybe they remove the hoarder from the property entirely too?