After watching it for a while it seems the different addictions repeat over and over and can be grouped into three categories:
Eating/smelling a non-food (chemical/pet food/cleaning products/urine) and other related self harm/seeking sensation (stinging self with bees/sleeping with hairdryer)
Being in love/in a sexual relationship with things (car/balloons/stuffed lamb toy)
Body dismorphia followed up with multiple dangerous surgical procedures or the overgrowth of hair or nails (butt injections/ever growing fake boobs/clawlike tallon fingernails & toenails)
Do you think there are any other categories? (The only one I can think of that doesnt fit into the above categories is a young man who was obsessed with driving around and burying roadkill)
Is it just a freak show?
Why does there seem to be a disproportionate number of young black women on the show?
Does it tell us anything about addiction & human behaviour we didn't already know?
Is it wrong of me to find it so fascinating, regardless of the exploitative nature of the show's style?
― no fear, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 14:38 (eleven years ago) link
am i like meryl streep in adaptation, obsessed with wanting an obsession
― no fear, Tuesday, 4 June 2013 15:12 (eleven years ago) link