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My Strange Addiction

My Strange Addiction

Description: "Strange" doesn't seem to adequately describe some of the addictive behaviours profiled on this series. `Dangerous', even `life-threatening', come much closer. Each half-hour episode features two adults who resort to extreme compulsions in an effort to soothe their emotional demons. Some of the addictions explored include sleeping with a turned-on blow dryer, eating bathroom cleanser, eating half a roll of toilet paper a day, extreme bodybuilding and thumb sucking.
Genre: Documentary, Biography, Reality-TV
Year Released: 2010
Number of seasons: 6
Number of episodes: 51
First episode air date: May 5, 2010
Network: TLC
Genre: Television documentary
Writers: Jason Bolicki, Bridget Sarno, Becky Postmus
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