My Strange Addiction
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My Strange Addiction is a TLC documentary television series about people with unusual compulsive behaviors. These range from eating specific non-food items and ritualistic daily activities to bizarre personal fixations or beliefs.
Despite the title of the show, few of the show's subjects have what would medically be classified as true addiction, neither conventional (substance-related) nor behavioral.
Rather, the cause of their behavior varies and may include a variety of psychiatric diagnosis. Examples of disorders on the show are:
Obsessive compulsive disorder, Pica (disorder), Schizophrenia, Psychosis, Alzheimer's disease, Exercise bulimia, Trichotillomania, Body dysmorphic disorder, Dermatillomania, etc.
I really feel for those poor people, I m not sure what kind of medication did that to them... but, with all the mixed stuff we have in our food, toxic chemicals we re being submitted to, and drugs we re being suggested to take, it s no wonder some of us go looney!
I'm 32 years old and have had trich since I was 11 years old. I just retrieved old medical files and found that my mother has Munchausen by proxy and was psychologically and physically abusing me since I was 4 years old due to her jealousy. she was the cause of the trich on each of the episodes. Sorry strange addictions but I've found a cause for trichillomania. There is a god. If I hadn't retrieved these files I would not have known and would still be thinking that I'm sick and that I'd always have it and that's exactly what my mother has being telling my brothers, family and friends. There's finally nothing wrong with me but now I have to try and find a way to get on with a happy life. Obviously I could write 100 pages on this. :) My advice to people wondering why they are where they are - please retrieve your old medical files as a child, you never know what you might find. I have been seeing therapists for years and they never even suggested doing this - where has all my money gone?! BTW I only found this out a week ago. :(
I have tricholtillomania from high anxiety and depression since 12/13 years old. I don't even know I'm doing it sometimes, it's just normal now :) luckily I don't pull head hair anymore, just eyelashes and eyebrows. All sorts of ticks and OCD, nothing wrong with it unless it's harming you.
That glass cuts up your in side and you get infected . then cancer will start from not washing your hands . the doctors will put him to sleep .
I'm also in love with my pillow, but its still strictly platonic.
W..T..Fck!?.Ah na na na na na na...and,ah....NO! I got through the first episode and that was more then enough for me. The gal with the hair dryer fetish thing wasn't so bad.....BUT!.. the lady with the g*d d*m toilet paper diet..ah................................................................no. I mean how can someone gordge on the very thing that your a$$ is wiped with? ....no! It ain't right, because this lady was a pretty healthy lookin' grazer and could probably consume a whole f***ing trees worth of toilet paper a week! I mean the gal was tearing off strips of of a$$ wipe all day long like it was g*d d*m string cheese!.....at home....at work...in the d*m restaurant...and probably eatin'it like a tub of f***ing popcorn in the movie theatre. All I can say about this is .......................................................................no.
Humans can be incredibly strange.
ok..the lady who eats rocks has more wrong with her than just addictive behavior.
how come i cant watch this documentary!
I never thought about this, but my sister is totally addicted to biting her nails off. she does it, and I don't think much about it, but every time I see her nails, always gone- so I finally thought about it just now, probably been doing it for 20 years...
me- I was addicted to pokemon, yeah, totally lame- 2 years, 10 hrs./day and I ruined 2 college years/grades. I'm also a light hoarder, collecting a few things of a bunch of diff. things(many diff. collections, each one small). and I'm addicted to gaining skills and being better than other people. both those aspects are related to 'gain'.
my dad was addicted to cigarettes, stopped for who knows? I thought it was at least 8 years, but I know he sneaks some sometimes and now that I'm out and he's back on it (says my mom), I'm inclined to believe he never quit...35 years.
my mom is addicted to her work, such a workaholic, comes home and only thinks about her work. dinner for 1 hr. and immediately shower and sleep at 9-10PM, wake up at 6 for work. -__-
How can you tell Kesha's been to see her shrink ?
There's teeth marks on the toilet roll dispenser and all the bog rolls missing.
whats so wrong with sleeping with a blow dryer. fire hazard. ok. but other than that, its warm and cozy.
Im addicted to watching documentary's...
The guy with the dolls is absolutely disgusting and creepy. Get a grip! Move on, grow up.
Your stomach will not rapture because of toilet paper... Where do these so-called "experts" come from? The University of Quack? Next thing they'll tell us that biting fingernails causes AIDS. >_>
They should do an episode about weeaboos or wapanese. These people have a strange addiction with all things Japanese. O_O
recently read that the blowdrier is The most radioactive of all the household appliances.. its annoying in this film how passive the family members appear to be about their relative's addiction.. i wanna see them snap that toilet paper/blowdrier out of her hands!! get it out of her life!!....its a bit like - 'oh you should't do that' - 'yeh i know.. oh well ':
Id love if at the start when the girl was crying and wiping her eyes with the toilet paper, if after she ate it, that would be gold! haha
it's always interesting to see what kind of music documentaries choose to ''suit'' the content. clearly in this one the spectator must be spooked and must fear any1 who resemble the people featured in it.
also i can remember seeing the vantriloquist lady in some humor show on tv (i thought she sucked and that SHE was the puppet), so i think they also selected a large number of fame addicted/seeking people... like this guy who have sex with dolls
*spooky music*
collecting rocks isn't an addiction, it's geology! XD she missed her calling!
...as long as she's not eating them ^^;;;
i find the blow dry woman absurdly attractive. not because of her addiction but for her facial expressions when she talks. i think..
Tomorrow on TDF! World's fattest animals!
Gah! I only read the description and already I feel like I need to bleach my brain.
The modern equivalent of Victorian freak shows.
I could go into a long tirade about how depressing it is to see the amount of this sort of puerile drivel that passes for mainstream television nowadays, but what's the point? One glance at the tv schedules in the UK would seem to suggest that there are more than enough viewers happy enough to lap up this type of lowest common denominator crud.
That people will actually sit and watch this stuff, must seem like an absolute gift to the tv stations, as it's so cheap to make....it's just a pity that it's cheap on so many other levels too.
wow i never thought about this kind of addictions, it kinda reminds me of the people i know who also happen to have disorders like eating fingernails, pinching, eating lipgloss etc. but some cases here are just far out! anyway good freakshow, hope that most of em will overcome their fears one day :)
Many people have strange tendencies,I think that some of these people really have problems,yet,others are bored....so they wanna make their lives interesting... But I think they made this,I will say 'show',primarily to amuse public... And yes,they made script for parts where family and friends talk to 'addicted' person about how is that wrong,weird and so on... It would be better if they made documentary,in real meaning of word,with different approach to all this ... 'addictions' ,behaviors.... We live in very degenerate world,where everything that people do and think nowadays is not normal.. There will be more and more weird and vicious things going on with people...
You can tell they had to give all these ret**ded rejects a make over before they put them on camera. What a bunch of ret*rds! they must have been rejected from The Jerry Springer show. Not worth watching.