The BEST episodes of My Strange Addiction
Every episode of My Strange Addiction ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of My Strange Addiction!
Some people turn to chocolate when stressed, others will indulge with a little retail therapy and maybe schedule a massage, but the individuals featured on My Strange Addiction resort to extreme and unusual things in an effort to emotionally regulate themselves. Some of the strange addictions explored in each episode are everything from an obsession with a blow dryer, to another eating toilet paper, to spending time with a silicone person, to eating detergent, to extreme body building, and to thumb sucking.
#1 - Married to A Doll; Picking My Scabs
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 1/26/2011
A man treats his life-size doll like a wife; a woman spends hours a day picking scabs on her body.
#2 - Eating Cleanser; Tanning
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/5/2011
Crystal has been eating household cleanser everyday since she was twelve. Her shame, embarrassment and concern for her health have caused her to keep this a secret. 20-year-old Samantha tans up to three times a day in tanning beds, in addition to tanning outdoors slathered in vegetable oil.
#4 - Cycling; Taxidermy
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 7/31/2011
55-year-old Tom has been addicted to cycling for more than 25 years. He peddles at least 6 hours a day, seven days a week. He rides his bike at home, outside and even in his office as he works. Divya is an attractive 28-year-old with a very unattractive addiction to taxidermy. She spends her days and nights searching for animals on the side of the road and even keeps a freezer full of dead mice – despite the risk of disease.
#5 - Eats Couch Cushion; Furry
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/19/2011
A woman insists on wearing her fur suit everywhere she goes; another woman has been eating couch cushions for 20 years.
#6 - Pulling Hair Out of Drains; Eating Drywall
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 7/17/2011
28-year-old Evan has hidden a strange addiction from almost everyone he know, pulling hair from shower drains. In social situations, he heads straight to the bathroom and compulsively pulls hair out of the homeowner’s shower drain. For the past seven years, 26-year-old Nicole has been eating the drywall. She craves the taste and will eat up to three square feet of drywall every week.
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#7 - Eats Detergent; Strongman
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 1/12/2011
A teen who eats detergent up to seven times a day is profiled. Also: A man is obsessed with training for strongman competitions.
#8 - Laxatives; Pottery & Ashes
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/16/2011
At fifteen, Kimberly started using laxatives to lose weight and is now addicted to them; Bianca craves pottery and ashes.
#9 - Adult Baby; Eating Dryer Sheets
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 7/24/2011
25-year-old Riley lives her life as an adult baby and refuses to grow up. She sleeps in a crib, drinks out of a bottle and even wears diapers 24 hours a day. 35-year-old Charmissa has been addicted to chewing dryer sheets for four years. She wraps them up in toilet paper and tears off a piece when she has a craving. Chewing on them helps to calm her nerves, but the chemicals in the dryer sheets can cause cancer.
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#10 - Extreme Bodybuilding; Thumb Sucking
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 12/29/2010
Lauren used to be addicted to drugs and alcohol, now she's addicted to extreme bodybuilding. She works out up to six hours a day, six days a week. 24-year-old Rhonda can't stop sucking her thumb while sniffing a scrap of her childhood blanket. The safety and comfort the thumb sucking gave her during her parents divorce, has now become an isolating social behavior she can't let go.
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#11 - Can't Stop Cleaning; Love Rocks
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 2/2/2011
Cyntrelle spends up to eight hours everyday cleaning her home; Belinda excessively collects rocks.
#12 - Sleeping with Blow Dryer; Eating Toilet Paper
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 12/29/2010
Thirty-one-year old Lori has been addicted to sleeping with her blow dryer since she was eight years old. Although she finds the heat and sound comforting, Lori risks the chance of burning her skin severely or worse, starting an electrical fire. Kesha has admitted to eating half a roll of toilet paper everyday. Whether in the car, at the movies, or in a restaurant, Kesha seizes every opportunity to give into her addiction.
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#13 - Sniffing Gasoline; Teddy Bears
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 7/24/2011
For the past 30 years, 44-year-old Theresa has been sniffing gasoline out of a water bottle. Her addiction has gotten so bad that she can’t go more than ten minutes without a sniff. 26-year-old Krista is a loving and caring mother… to her 12 teddy bears. Krista tends to her troop of teddy bears as any mother would: dressing them, caring for them and putting them to bed every day.
#14 - Eating Rocks; Carrying Pillows
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 7/31/2011
44-year-old Teresa has been eating rocks for more than 20 years. She drives up to an hour away from her Virginia home to gather the stones she finds most appetizing. Tamara is a 33-year-old personal trainer whose been carrying around her childhood pillow for over 25 years. Tamara takes her pillow everywhere – to work, to the mall, on long walks – and considers it her best friend.
#15 - Growing Fingernails; Hairless Rats
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 7/17/2011
48-year-old Jazz has been growing her fingernails for the past 22 years. Even though her extreme fingernails make life tough, Jazz refuses to cut her nails. 56-year-old Theresa is addicted to her 52 hairless rats. Instead of working, she spends her day feeding, cleaning and caring for her strange obsession.
#16 - Eats Glass; Bleaches Skin
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 2/9/2011
Over the past four years, Josh has consumed more than 100 glasses and 250 light bulbs. As if ingesting glass wasn't dangerous enough, Josh also swallows live bullets. Candice struggles with her addiction to skin bleach to lighten her skin. Discrimination at school and teasing from friends has her convinced she is ugly.
#18 - Ventriloquism; Cats
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 1/5/2011
When April's fiance gave her the ultimatum "it's me or the puppets" - April chose the puppets. Not only do the puppets go everywhere she goes, she practices with them 12 hours a day. Debbie is severely allergic to cats, but has over twenty of them. Despite the health problems they cause and the isolation that comes along with being the "crazy cat lady," Debbie continues to choose the cats over herself since her husband's death.
#22 - Justin Bieber Look-a-like; Makeup Eater
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 1/29/2014
A 33-year-old man spends thousands of dollars on cosmetic surgery to look like singer Justin Bieber; a 22-year-old woman can't stop eating makeup.
#23 - Men in Doll Suits
Season 6 - Episode 1 - Aired 1/7/2015
Men who get dolled up in secret are stepping out in public for the first time at rubber doll rendezvous. This is an insider's look into the world of female maskers: men who dress in rubber suits and masks to look like life-sized, shapely female dolls.
#25 - Addicted to Being Pamela Anderson
Season 6 - Episode 3 - Aired 1/14/2015
Carolyn Anderson, a 29-year-old women from the UK, is addicted to transforming herself into Baywatch beauty Pamela Anderson.