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we're going to check out some more Strange Addictions remember we're leading with empathy first so be understanding my name is Mark I'm 20 years old and I'm in a relationship with 15 inflatable animals my mother really wasn't there for me when I was a child first time I hugged my inflatable whale I actually started feeling all that love and compassion could be oxytocin which is uh one of the hormones that your body releases when you're a cudding this is actually why animal the I mean it's a little bit different obviously but why animal therapy works quite well especially in those newly diagnosed with autism because animals are not judgmental so you can show an animal affection and pet them and enjoy their company without them judging you and there's less risk there uh for humans to be hurt so they enjoy their time with animals that's why echoine therapy does quite well emotional support dogs Etc now he's so dependent on his Inflatables he can't be separated from them for more than a day this is again entering the the realm of what we categorize a disorder because he can't be without them so as a result it can impact his ability to live a fulfilling life reaching his major Milestones going to work having relationships Etc if I could marry Lyla I would because I am that much in love with her but Mark and Lyla haven't taken their relationship to the next level yet me and Lyla Dragon don't have sex together we keep our relationship clean you know we've talked about objectophilia which is when someone falls in love with an in adamant object or has sexual desire for an adom and object and there's been theories as to why this occurs they're saying there's some pattern with those who been diagnosed with autism those who have these sensory situations where in feeling certain things there's a crossover neurologically that when they see this inflatable dragon that they also engage their sexual desires not because they've trained that way but because the body is made that way the therapist helped me realize that my Inflatables are getting me us to more socializing with them rather than real people from now on I'm going to start spending a little less time each day with my Inflatables I'll still have my Inflatables in my life but they're not going to be the primary part of my [Music] life if something's going on mentally where you you are finding a lot of value in these Inflatables just taking them away abruptly can cause more harm and Trauma because as you can tell this person has an adverse childhood event I'm actually curious about his job situation whose house that is how does he provide for himself because those are the questions that you really need to learn about this person more so than what the diagnosis is or what his romantic life is with these animals that's what's going to tell me who he is as a human and what impact these Inflatables are having on his life I'm Amy I'm Becky and we're 45 years old and we're addicted to being identical what addicted to being identical you either are twins or you're not twins for some reason gain a teeny bit more weight than me yeah and people would go like oh you're the big twin you're the smaller twin and literally from then on out yeah we eat the same exact bites of food and drink the same sips of drink you know I know some sisters and brothers that are like this but not to this degree so I feel like they are closer than what is expected of normal but that's just cultural expectations see this is where it can cause a disruption in someone's life to the point where it can become a disorder if you can't be apart with from each other for more than 30 minutes you have to sleep in the same bedroom that makes accommodations difficult my main concern is that one would actually die before the other and the other one would be lost completely without I mean I'm not going to lie I would say that's probably a little bit of an irrational worry later in life absolutely you need to start planning for that but right now as young women to decide whether or not they need to learn how to be without each other shouldn't be based on the fact that one of them may die that's a fairly lower risk thing to worry about I've never heard of them being in a long-term relationship and that concerns me a lot that concerns you but what if they don't want to be in a long-term relationship that could be totally appropriate so I set Becky up on a blind date hi Becky Becky hi and the show obviously tells them both twins my sister I told jillene I would go on this blind date absolutely and I I technically she we just left a little little part it's not exactly how I envisioned it so they have the same watch I love it married or tell me we're kind of married to each other yeah talk about setting up a guy for failure without giving him a heads up the date didn't fail because there's something different about them the date failed because the guy didn't get a heads up that they're very unique it's like setting up someone who doesn't want to be married on a date and then the person goes and says do you want to get married they say no and then the date ends horribly could have seen that one oh that's a lot of cockroaches you know what's funny I grew up in Brooklyn and okay maybe it wasn't that bad but there were cockroaches in certain areas all over the place hi my name is Shelby cman I am 9 years old and I collect cockroaches oh oh wow she kisses them when I started collecting roaches I only had five you know what I just found out the other day there are roaches or some kind of insects that look like roaches that breathe through their body that make hissing s sounds and it literally kept me up all night can you imagine this thing walking next to you and just going now I have thousands wow I mean roaches don't like bite they may scratch you accidentally or something but they don't bite but they do spread diseases like bacteria especially salmonella strep staff they can even cause chera dissenter so you got to be careful with these roaches uh I could do without them the father says I could do without them these are my Madagascar hissing cockroaches I knew some of them hiss sometimes they're too noisy I would hiss at them they're not actually hissing I think they're breathing they're not harmful at all except they may be a little stinky once in a while yeah also you're keeping like 10,000 of them in like a tupperware container meant for Legos I don't know if that's ideal storage for roaches like why do you need a thousand can you have one roach one friend roach my name is Samantha I'm 20 years old I consider myself pretty responsible independent um like to have fun and I'm addicted to tanning oh tanning is so bad I mean tanning is incredibly problematic especially as a young person if you're below the age of 20 you tan even once your risk of melanoma goes up like 50% my typical tanning day is going to three different tanning places 20 minutes in the bed for an equivalent of an hour a day I think you're almost like guaranteeing yourself cancer at that point not only are you increasing ing drastically your chances of developing cancer you're destroying your appearance because skin becomes dried out becomes poor quality looseness occurs tanning is my everything because it makes me really happy um anytime I'm sad or upset going tanning just makes me like perk right up there is um some evidence showing that going tanning a lot and then stopping can cause like withdrawal symptoms so we try and help that by sending the patients or working with them to go to therapy or even take medication think about tanning when I wake up I think about tanning in the shower I don't think there's actually ever a point where I don't think about tanning that's worth exploring is she thinking about how she feels in the tanning booth is it afterwards is it the appearance is it something she doesn't like about herself like all these are questions that one might ask in a visit to try and figure out where the source of thinking about tanning coming comes from I'm not really worried about the premature aging because um that's why they have botox plastic surgery face lifts the problem is that does doesn't enhance or solve the problem of what tanning creates like if the materials themselves AKA your skin and the the foundational blocks that make up your skin are damaged permanently all those things that you just discussed do not Target or solve that issue this is a a perfect example of an individual that would benefit from meeting someone who was also addicted to tanning and seeing them 10 20 years later just to get a sense of what can happen cuz I think that's that's a good reality wakeup call for many you actually very fortunate I don't see any signs of skin cancer which is great but the risk of melanom is still huge in someone like you I'm pretty excited that the doctor didn't find any skin cancer so now I can go home and tell people I told you so that's not how it works when we say raises your risk of skin cancer it's not right now it's across your whole life a lot of young people have that mindset of oh I I don't even want to live till I'm 40 or 70 I'd rather get all my fun in now and you only say that up until you you're 30 or 40 you're 50 and then you realize how much more you want to keep living life and enjoying the different stages of your life I am Sydney I am 29 years old and I am making my neck long what this thing does is not make your neck long it can make the appearance of your neck long by pushing down the clavicles which are your collar bones here and literally changing the angle of your top ribs so it looks like your neck is longer but it's actually not becoming longer because of the necklace I had to change everything in my life even though the way I eat I can feel my throat pressing against the back of the necklace when I swallow if you're limiting your range of motion you're actually creating restrictions in blood flow weaknesses in the stabilizing muscles of the neck and as a result are setting yourself up for future tension headaches compression headaches maybe even circulation problems depending on how tight the neck rings actually are the idea of stopping has not crossed my mind because it's been in my mind my whole life look where she's at and look where I'm at I would love to get my neck as long as hers remember the way that the ribs move follow a very specific pattern to allow maximal expansion of your lungs and when you're limiting rib mobility and changing the rib Mobility you're actually decreasing your ability to take a full breath and as a result starting to impact your cardiopulmonary performance I don't feel very good after removing the nest necklace wow it is really bruised it's a little upsetting to see the bruising when you have constant pressure on your skin you could actually cause pressure necrosis this is basically what happens in a hospital when someone stays for a long period of time and his bed bound can't walk can't rotate in the bed they can actually develop pressure ulcers they could get so deep to the point where the skin gets broken down all the way to the Bone past even the the adapost or fat tissue this is my destiny and this is what I've chosen for myself people take risks all the time doing things that they find valuable and pleasurable and if this culturally mean something to her who are we to judge I'm Justin jeda I'm 32 years old and I'm a living doll a living doll is that a profession is that a hobby I've had 125 procedures it's a lot of procedures and it's been $158,000 to make me really resemble a doll see I wonder if at any point did his doctors have a discussion as to why he wants this is it healthy to keep going for surgical procedures are there other options like getting in shape where your muscles can look big without having to get implants and I'm only saying that because that's a healthier alternative not necessarily he has to do that I started having a couple other nose revisions they all get a little fuzzy after a while but at the end I've had five nose jobs now because I'm not a plastic surgeon I don't know what the qualifications are of a person that should not get plastic surgery but I think if you're getting multiple facial revisions and you're doing it to replicate an imaginary being I think that's worth an evaluation with a mental health specialist at the very least click here for a clip of my interview with steo where he shares his biggest regret and his most painful injury click here I promise you won't regret it as always stay happy and healthy

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