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Diogenes syndrome, also known as senile squalor syndrome, is a disorder characterized by extreme self-neglect, domestic squalor, social withdrawal, apathy, compulsive hoarding of garbage or animals, and a lack of shame. Affected people may also display symptoms of catatonia. [1] [2]
The councilman pulled out his camera to show me the “before” photos of people living in squalor, taking shelter under highway overpasses and fending off rodents.
The 1975 documentary Grey Gardens depicted the two living in squalor in the mansion; the highly regarded film [2] spawned a 2006 Broadway musical, a 2009 television movie, and other adaptations. The house dates from 1897, and was designed by Joseph Greenleaf Thorp.
Grey Gardens is a 1975 American documentary film by Albert and David Maysles.The film depicts the everyday lives of two reclusive, upper-class women, a mother and daughter both named Edith Beale, who lived in poverty at Grey Gardens, a derelict mansion at 3 West End Road in the wealthy Georgica Pond neighborhood of East Hampton, New York.
The couple certainly doesn’t seem to be living in squalor. They apparently own dozens of mobile home and RV parks across Washington and Oregon. KGW News 8 also found public records showing the ...
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Some families on the estate had even abandoned the decaying upstairs bedrooms and were sleeping in downstairs rooms, few of which were in a much better condition. The plight of people living in squalor on the Wren's Nest was highlighted in February 1985, in the second edition of the Dudley News.
Sky News explored Ukrainian homes after Russian soldiers left them, and found squalor and disarray there.