My Connection with My Spirituality

 I dealt with depression since I was a kid.  Children of Hoarding disorder often are emotionally, psychologically, physically abused and neglected.  My sister and I were no different.  Parents with Hoarding Disorder often suffer a multitude of mental health issues like Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, tragic loss, victims of violence, or have a physical reason as to why they hoard.  Brain injuries and dementia are causes for hoarding as well.  Both my mother's and father's life histories were filled with violence and loss.  They were from Slovenia and Austria, and were young children when World War II broke out.  They were children of the Depression Era.  My father's history in Europe ended with losing his own homeland and everything he knew.  Forced at the tender age of 15 to join the German Army.  Migrated through Europe in Displaced Persons Work Camps and eventually ended up in a small town of Skt. Josef, Austria where he worked alongside my mother in the farm fields.