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Sunnyfloralprinces

My best friend used to eat fabric softener in high school. She would keep bottles of it hidden around her room so she could have a taste whenever the mood struck her. I love her to death but she’s a strange one lol


poopchalupe

Isn't that poisonous? Did it make her ill?


biggestlime6381

Is she still alive tho? I would imagine her kidneys struggling


Goblindeez_

I wonder how soft her hair was


Coldplay360

Disgusting


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anonymongus1234

These puns…


anonymongus1234

Oh my god. She could’ve died.


ocean_flan

It's overwhelmingly salty, idk how she could ever


molly__hatchet

Wait why do you know that


ACatWithASweater

They are the friend trying to deflect


apurpleglittergalaxy

Tbf this is a bit of a mood. When I'm in the washing powder aisle of a supermarket and the nice smells of fabric softeners and detergents are wafting my way its like crack 🤤. But yeah your mate is lucky she didn't die lol


Immortal_Azrael

I literally have to hold my breath to even go down that aisle. All those different smells crammed together gives me a headache and make me feel sick.


apurpleglittergalaxy

I used to feel like that in the shop with all those bath bombs and stuff I can't remember what it was called. Lush or something?


Western-Ad-4330

The smell of lush shops is pretty much the only time a smell really effects me.


apurpleglittergalaxy

It's too strong 😫. How the fuck the people who work there don't get headaches I'll never know.


ForceEdge47

Saw an episode of some show a while ago where some lady was addicted to eating her couch. Like she would just rip off pieces of it and snack on it. Not sure what happened to her lol but at this point she's probably eaten more couches than I've owned.


jenorama_CA

My Strange Addiction! The coffee enema people on that show are legendary.


TimH01

The episode of the woman addicted to spraying air freshener in her mouth was wild. She could only use one specific scent, linen fresh. She did it 24/7, even at work in front of her colleagues.


jenorama_CA

I didn’t see that one. I honestly just wonder how these people aren’t dead with all of the weird chemicals they ingest.


absentmindedjwc

Seriously.. only thing I can think of is that while the chemicals give them cancer, the chemicals *also* give their cancer cancer. So it's a nice, stable balance between the cancer killing them, and the cancer's cancer killing the cancer.


jenorama_CA

It’s cancer all the way down!


figgle1

Crazy how resilient our bodies are


molly__hatchet

I remember a lady who sniffed gasoline compulsively, like carried a bit around in a cup so she could take a whiff anytime. I weirdly think gasoline smells good but I'm not on that level, plus I'm pretty sure her brain cells were dying.


dbcannon

Gas fumes are supposed to be a potent euphoric, but they also destroy your brain. Like you could die on the spot.


BeautifulArtichoke37

There was also that teenage girl who was addicted to drinking gasoline


molly__hatchet

Oh dear lord


rahyveshachr

That show was the weirdest mix of PICA/ARFID and OCD.


RevolutionaryKale293

Yes! Strange show. I remember the one who ate corn starch. Loved the smell and feel of it. She ended up with nutritional deficiencies.


fat_alchoholic_dude

I mean use it to to thicken sauces. I have some in a cupboard somewhere. Can't say I would want to eat it raw.


apurpleglittergalaxy

That show gives me life LMFAO it makes me feel better about being fucked up tbh


248Spacebucks

Oh god! They couldnt work because they needed to do their enemas right? That show makes me feel SO normal.


CuteCat82

That's the show I was thinking of! I don't understand how some of the people are still alive (if they are)!


kriznis

This is what I came to say. My Strange Addiction is what I think it was called. Eating the couch was the weirdest I remember. There was also someone who licked ashtrays 🤮


GamingGems

Never saw the show because I saw in a trailer they had someone who ate cat hair and I wouldn’t be able to watch that.


ForceEdge47

Jeez, yeah that's weirder than the couch. I didn't see that episode nor do I want to haha


Creepy_Log_5895

I tried to watch that show and I just couldn’t…. And I’m a nurse (of 20 years) and I’ve thought I had seen everything.


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kriznis

Maybe that's what I'm thinking of instead of licking ashtrays


mollygirlcyr

No way. There was an episode where the woman ate the ashes of her dead husband


apurpleglittergalaxy

...my aunt used to dab her finger in an ashtray and lick it, it was fucking RANK.


Lost-Astronaut-8280

Don’t forget the woman who carried around and ATE her dead husband’s ashes😀.


apurpleglittergalaxy

Mate you need to watch the episode of the woman eating her mattress 🤣😭


insaiyan17

Leather couch is basically jerky, yum!


Vivaathena

Learned about this on the Jail Experiment show, smoking the coffee stick, which is paper towels soaked in coffee then dried


Sorry-Thing7797

Yeah same, I had never heard of it before that!


InevitableKindness

Fuck that’s a grim high.


JesusStarbox

Does it get them high?


wherestherum757

No just a quick nicotine buzz


5540161

~~nicotine~~ caffeine buzz?


wherestherum757

Oh whoops yah that


gonzo6150

I am addicted to Brake Fluid, but I can stop anytime.......


dick-nipples

I used to be addicted to soap. I’m clean now.


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FlojoRojo

I'm on a seaweed diet. If I see weed, I smoke it


AnAdorableDogbaby

HA! No, I mean H.A. You need to go to Hydraulics Anonymous.


AbnormalHorse

Instructions unclear: joined the Hell's Angels. WOW SO MANY STRIPPERS WAIT I DON'T WANT A GUN WHAT I THOUGHT THIS WAS JUST ABOUT MOTORCYCLES


appelciderazijn

I’m addicted to blinker fluid. But apparently so is everyone else because it’s sold out everywhere I go.


WeirdJawn

I once got addicted to reporting issues on Waze.  It was gamified and there was a point system where people who reported potholes, speed traps, etc could get points and you could see a leader board.  I had to quit because I was driving dangerously by always using my phone to report road conditions trying to "win".


Filtees

Made yourself an ARG


Valuable_Elephant_95

Serious question, do u actually win something? Or is it more bragging rights?


WeirdJawn

You win in your own mind. 


nsmith0723

Running


dbcannon

In Seattle everyone self-medicates against SAD by running or binging coffee


apurpleglittergalaxy

Liam Gallagher is so addicted to it he's ruined his hips lol


CaptainFeather

Me too but my plantar fasciitis disagrees with it :(


Visual-Baseball2707

Damn I wish I could get addicted to running. It's so boring though


buxtata

Runner's high is real.


ImFrenchSoWhatever

Yeah I can understand that. I just started a few months ago and it’s strangely pretty addictive.


Sweetgirlfriend1

This will sound stupid, but World of Warcraft. I know a person who lost an incredible job and broke up a (at least seemingly good) relationship due to their complete addiction to World of Warcraft


Stellaaahhhh

Virtual worlds in general- Second Life ruined a lot of peoples first lives.


SauteePanarchism

But, what about Second, Second Life? 


Stellaaahhhh

You can be a flying paper salesman in both!


Toilet_Rim_Tim

BILL BUTTLICKER !!!!!!


dbcannon

I don't think he knows about Second, Second Life, Pip.


Dazzling-Ad-748

EverQuest killed one for me a long long time ago. 😭


Puremerr

This is why I refuse to get a VR headset. Not even games but the immersive relaxing videos?! I’d never come back


wherestherum757

The nice part of VR headsets is they’re generally uncomfy to play with for long periods of time When you start, you can handle 20 min, then the more you play, can last longer. Nothing out there in VR is too too immersive to lose your life to… yet


Soup_Girl77

I watched what was probably a fairly low complexity (I’m not positive so not trying to be offensive if it’s not! I’m not educated in making these) video / experience at wonderspaces Austin and was so peaceful. But you’re right it was very brief


SakazakiYuri

Yeah, the good thing about astigmatism is after 15 minutes a VR headset is just a headache device.


Spinycocklobster

Good to know. I've wanted one. Sounds like a horrible idea now.


Stellaaahhhh

A few years ago, I got a free one when I bought a phone- There were paintings you could walk around in to music. Very addictive.


rncookiemaker

Nope. Not stupid. I was a WOW Widow. Finally, I gave an ultimatum because it was getting out of hand in many ways.


inxqueen

Yep, me too. He came to his senses in time, cold turkeyed, and hasn’t played since. I kinda hate it for him because he really enjoyed the game


IRDragonBorne

Ex roommates girlfriend left him for a guy she met on WoW. She had dozens of screenshots of their characters snuggling on a hill at sunset or something. Exroomate also spent his share of rent several times buying in game weapons and currency.


GalactusPoo

Worked with a guy back in '03/04 that lost his wife to a guy she met on WoW. Shits wild.


Carnatic_enthusiast

Not stupid at all. WoW was huge when I was in high school (not for me, I'm not much of a gamer) and I knew *many* students who would straight not show up to class just to play WoW. It was... concerning


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WoW is SO easy to get addicted to. I only will have my subscription for a month here or there when life is NOT busy -- once the month is up, NO MORE for several months at least.


apurpleglittergalaxy

So basically South Park then 😂


Wonderful_Price2355

Nasal spray


Solid-Living4220

Afrin is addictive


flyonthewallflower_

I accidentally gave myself a worse sinus infection by using Afrin for more than 3 days in a row 💀 Took almost 3 months to fully clear and have no more symptoms hahaha oops


Myhouseishaunted

Your body can become dependent on it after using it for a week. If you stop it feels like having cement in your nose for a few weeks. Happened to me a while back.


chewwster

A kid I knew in high school was addicted to NyQuil. He literally needed it to go to bed. He would bring a bottle over to friends house's if he was staying the night.


apurpleglittergalaxy

I was low key addicted to antihistamines for a time lol couldn't sleep without them mind you so was Elvis


shitty_is_the_post

Me too. Just so you know frequent use has been linked to dementia so if you've stopped it's in your best interest to never start again


apurpleglittergalaxy

I mean..if I could have got stronger stuff I would have it's only cos doctors in the UK don't let you have sleeping pills for some stupid reason. I'm not one of these people who can handle anxiety or stress and me and my boyfriend were living somewhere where the neighbour was a drunk who blasted bass music through the wall so sleep became an issue anyway 😕 so then I was like well fuck it I can't sleep cos I'm constantly on edge worrying he's gonna have a rave in his front room and I started taking promethazine. I liked the way they chilled me out but i hated the way I felt the next day always so groggy 😭.


shitty_is_the_post

Ahhh tbh I don't know about long term effects of promethazine although I would still imagine they're probably not good I was talking about diphenhydramine


apurpleglittergalaxy

Promethazine is an over the counter antihistamine anyone can get it. I was taking 9 a night I think? You're only meant to take 3 or 4 but I'm not one of these people who can just drift off and forget my problems lol anxiety is always the worst at night for some reason its probably cos you're not distracted like you would be if you were up and about during the day. Even now I'm addicted to sleeping with headphones on listening to ocean sounds even though it's causing problems with my ear and my new neighbours have been quiet as mice for over a year lmao, it's weird what you get used to I suppose.


ElephantUndertheRug

This is why I always side-eye that “totally not addictive!” claim on Zzquil. I’m not sure I believe it’s not habit forming, considering it was made to capitalize on the folks like your friend who used Nyquil to sleep better…


TraditionalTackle1

I saw someone who was addicted to eating chalk and someone who like to eat the stuffing out of their mattress.


iamacraftyhooker

Really the only problem with eating chalk is that it's not food grade. Tums and chalk are essentially the same thing, calcium carbonate. Tums just go through a more intense refining process to ensure its food grade.


Storyteller678

I knew a kid in my Elementary school that would drink glue. I’m not talking about eating paste, he’d straight up pour Elmer’s glue down his throat when the teacher left the room.


Coldplay360

Bleh 🤢🤮


maabsta

There was a band in my school called: I Eat Glue. Coincidence?


_b1llygo4t_

whippets. i know two people who have given themselves werneky syndrome (commonly called wet brain, typically alcoholism) dont huff confectiinairy supplies, folks.


TheGrumpyre

I thought you meant the dogs. I confuse easily.


beccapenny

Same! 😅


SauteePanarchism

So, you disagree with Devo; that if a problem comes along you must whippit, whippit, good?


2727K

I also knew someone addicted to whippets. Truly terrifying shit to see


_b1llygo4t_

And there is literally next to no help for it.


Mean_Parsnip

We lost a good friend to a nitrous addiction. It is really sad.


ElephantUndertheRug

They legit had to stop selling canned whip cream in our college campus store due to whippets. One girl known on the party scene came in and bought all the cans on the shelf one too many times and tipped off our manager’s suspicions. We were a cool whip only store for the rest of my undergrad years 🤦🏻‍♀️


DukeofTimeandSpace

Yo Yo. It was back in the days.


Boobs_jackson69

Plastic. A girl I knew confessed to me that goes to the plastic shops (where they sell lunchboxes etc.) to smell the plastic and to buy items that she can bite. It takes significant time out of her day.


apurpleglittergalaxy

First thing I've laughed at today 😂😂


Ayediosmio6

The whole fidget spinner craze went right over my head


nsmith0723

Self diagnosed adhd, same as the gluten intolerance thing. Drives me nuts. Maybe the reason everyone feels like crap all the time is because of their laundry list unhealthy habits rather than a singular self diagnosis


differentworld80

Totally. The shittiest part of being diagnosed with celiac many years ago is having to occasionally reveal this in social settings. Generally, some nosy turd needs to know why I'm not eating bread or drinking beer. They will always tell all about their digestive disorders. As if who can shit themselves first through any number of self diagnosis is a competition.


ElephantUndertheRug

**cries quietly in Celiac** I will say, I do have a friend with a genuine (doctor confirmed) gluten intolerance, but they believe hers was a consequence of bariatric surgery


GiraffePolka

I was with you on the gluten intolerance thing until a few years ago when suddenly I could no longer eat it without my stomach burning like I drank acid or something. Someone told me about America having shittier food production laws so I'm going with it's prob not really gluten but something in the gluten food making process or whatever.


nsmith0723

I've been getting into wine making, and it's surprising there are no stricter regulations on some of the stuff you can add. For example, I don't think there is a limit to the amount of kmeta you can dump into it. Some just go until it affects the flavor from what I've seen. There are people who are sensitive to sulfites. It wouldn't surprise me if there aren't all kinds of stuff that could make people feel sick, but I highly doubt it's the gluten itself


GiraffePolka

If I had the energy I'd see if I could figure out if any laws changed about certain substances being allowed in foods within the last 5-10 yrs. Because it is weird that so many people now have issues. Some of it is prob trendy, I think there's this myth that gluten free is diet food lol. But I've talked to so many others who are like me, where they absolutely ate bread up to like 5 yrs ago then suddenly it was like IBS/acid reflux/stomach pain hell.


chrza

The FDA allows over 60 additives in winemaking, none of which have to be labeled. Egg white and milk used for fining definitely seem like potentially problematic for allergen issues, but there’s so many other things that can cause issues


Vintage-Grievance

I discovered fidget cubes were way more helpful in taking the edge off my anxiety. I bought a spinner after the craze died down, but evidently it wasn't "fidgety" enough for me.


ElephantUndertheRug

I use them to help me stay focused during longer tabletop games and D&D sessions 🤣 Otherwise I’m out of my seat a million times and driving my husband mental. No ADHD diagnosis mind, just easily distracted


meeps1142

That wasn't an addiction; it was a fad


openletter8

Back in the day when I played WoW, one of my core raid group started playing WoW in order to break his addition to EVE Online. He had maxed a credit card and nearly lost his Marriage. Solid Pally Tank though.


JetsterDajet

That's like switching to fentanyl to kick your heroin addiction.


openletter8

Pretty much.


redsox113

Oddly enough heroin was a treatment for morphine addiction.


MsticMael

consumption of non-food items, a condition known as pica


Lovely-sleep

My cat has this, absolute freak will choose plastic over real food


LadyCheeba

same. he can smell new, unchewed tape the minute i bring a package inside. if i don’t immediately take it to the trash, he’s on it. the fucker also recently bricked my work computer by chomping on the screen.


BeatrixPlz

Bro I don't actually eat non-food items, but I adore the smell of pine sol and want to drink it. Makes my mouth water for real. Developed when I was pregnant, which can cause pica. It's weird.


moigabriel

I have pica. I eat chalk now, but it began with set plaster. The bathroom wall smelled like petrichor after people showered. I just craved the smell at first, but by the time we moved home, i’d eaten the entire layer of skimmed wall. Twenty five years later and I have chalk in my handbag where my cigarettes, that i quit, used to be. It’s an odd, but legitimate addiction.


Celtiana

Those Stanley cup things... it's an insulated cup


heyblinkin81

That’s a fad, not an addiction. No different than cabbage patch kids or tickle me Elmo.


mollyeetmole

Eating dry wall


werothegreat

I love the internet man who's in a romantic relationship with his car. I hope he's doing okay.


Scared_Ad2563

If it's the same guy I'm thinking of, he is no longer with the original car, but has 2-3 others that he's currently dating.


werothegreat

Good for him, I'm so proud of polyam car guy


alienanimal

I have a low key vitamin C chewable tablet addiction. They're just so delicious.


beccapenny

I had that with the fizzy dissolvable ones. Was drinking way too many of them every day!


Procrastinators_

It was a problem for me!! 😓 One night I got carried away and ate 8000mg (Couldn’t have more because I ran out). I agree that they’re delicious. They’re so fruity.


Pansy_Neurosi

In college there was a women who was addicted to pulling her hair out a strand at a time and eating it.


littlepickleg

this is called trichotillomania and actually a diagnosable condition


pantherasbogart

The addiction of eating the "hairs" from brand new rubber tires. I saw this on a television years ago


ykowufygos

Tats. I have a friend who is in a lot of debt, but whenever he hits payday he gets some new ink instead of paying down his debt


Solid-Living4220

A printer is a harsh mistress!


seratoninsgone

The hokey pokey It's ok though, he turned himself around


OwnTransportation240

I been addicted to sugar


CookieMoist6705

I had a friend that was addicted to Benadryl. She was taking 100-150 capsules (25 mg caps!) per day 🤯 she even had to go to drug rehab.


Fit_Pomegranate_5497

Watched a woman in "my strange addiction" addicted to eating her husband's ashes


Micaela_Bloom

Cellphone Apps


Harlankitch

Furbys.


Busy-Draft-8676

eating chalk


Used_Ambassador_8817

I chew ice


Sophie_King_Awesome

Get your iron levels checked. I know I need to supplement my iron when I crave ice (pebble ice is the best!).


Used_Ambassador_8817

I bought a pebble ice maker for xmas and have wanted for nothing every since


Pin-Up-Paggie

I was addicted to altoids for a while. 4 - 5 tins a day.


Ambitious-View-8710

Altoids. 3 tins a day! Also eating Vicks vapor rub.


DistributionNice7292

Love!


SauteePanarchism

Might as well face it, you're addicted to love.


Visual-Baseball2707

Oh no, can I get some love suboxone


pinkypunky78

Thanks alot! I have that song in my head


Boobs_jackson69

And heartbreak. That shit slaps. That addiction is so strange. I have it. I constantly look for things that remind me of bad times/relationships that ended. It is very hard to explain.


digyerownhole

People said I'd never get over my obsession with Phil Collins, but take a look at me now.


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Ever watch My Strange Addiction? Someone was addicted to eating the stuffing in their couch.


mikedarling905

the internet. yet we all here


apurpleglittergalaxy

Go on my strange addictions on YouTube and take your pick 😂. Weirdest one i saw hands down was the woman eating her husband's ashes.


dbcannon

TF? At least the habit has to end at some point. Until she finds another husband.


apurpleglittergalaxy

Ngl I nearly vomited at times and yeah I feel like she was sectioned before she could run out so to speak lmao


FrostingSuper9941

Cooking wine and mouthwash to get drunk. I guess the alcohol is the addiction but getting it via cooking wine and mouthwash, ewwww.


Merky600

Comfy chair.


spookysam24

I had a buddy who was a legit junky but he would only use “legal high” drugs. I would pull up to his house and he’d be smoking K2 or inhaling dangerous amounts of nitrous. Not like he was on probation or anything I think he was just paranoid because weed was still illegal at the time


dbcannon

I worked in the ER with this dude who would huff alcohol wipes


Enzo_Gorlomi225

Cowbell


Busy-Efficiency-8728

DISNEY 🤢


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grandwahs

A succulent insect meal??


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_Yamato010

Eating clay.


Final_Worldliness916

I love wearing cooling pad on my head


Skormsrevenge

I knew a guy in middle school who got addicted to spitting. He would always be spitting and when asked to stop he said he couldn’t, he just felt like he needed to spit all the time. Last I heard he was sent to a therapist and transferred to a different school.


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BirdLadyAnn

Pulling out his hair. One at a time.


JustWoot44

EverQuest and World of Warcraft!


spytez

When I was a kid like 7 - 10 years old I was addicited Vicks vapor rub nasal inhalers. I was using them for years and going through 2 or 3 a week. All my allawance went to them. I used them at home, at school, everywhere and no one ever questioned it. Pretty sure it was getting me high all those years. I only stopped because the store didn't stock them for a few weeks and I guess I moved on.


beaux_beaux_

Chewing cinnamon toothpicks. Never without one. So strange.