Season 2 of the documentary series My Strange Addiction (2010) explores the unusual compulsive addictions and behaviors of individuals and the way in which they significantly impact their lives. YLC ...

Take Allison, for example, who became famous for her unusual addiction to eating rubber tires specifically for their “chemically taste.” While Allison insisted that there were no health issues or any ...

When you think about addiction, your mind probably jumps to the usual suspects: alcohol, drugs, gambling, or cigarettes. But the human brain’s capacity for developing compulsive behaviors extends far ...

Today’s post is the first of a three-part series looking at some of the stranger addictions that have been written about in the academic literature (or by academics who have tried to argue that these ...

On the recent seventh season premiere of My Strange Addiction, the long-running TLC show spotlighting folks who suffer from “strange” (usually life-threatening) “addictions” (usually not quite ...