Eating Drywall/ Getting hair out of drains
Evan is 28 and he is addicting to pulling hair out of shower drains. He says that it is a stress relief for him :/ weird I know. He gets it and he likes the wet slimy kinda and then all of his anxiety is gone. I'm noticing a bit of a pattern that alot of these addictions are anxiety caused. He addiction started when he was younger after his father passed away. His freinds worry about him cause they don't want him to become that "weird guy". He likes doing it to peoples drains that he has never been to before. After he does it he regrets doing it, and he feels disgusted with himself, than just throws the hair away. Its sad that he really does want to change but doesn't know how to do it, what steps to take to move forward. You start to ask questions such as how far could the addiction take him? Could it push him to weirder and extremer limits? I don't really know where the death of his father could bring up the want to pull hair out of the drain, if thats the cause of it at all. He said that his favorite type is brown hair and his father had brown hair but I don't know. Him playing with the hair causes him to visualize what the women look like that the hair belongs to. If anything it sounds like he just might have a hair fetish. The therapist said that he has an anxiety disorder.
Nicole is 26 a single parents and she is addicted to eating dry wall. She has been eating dry wall for 7 years, and she eats up to 3 square feet in a week. She is seriously eating her own house. Her addiction started to become really bad shortly after mother died. She hides her addiction. Just thinking about all the things that are in dry wall is scary, things like fiber glass. Fiber glass could cut up her insides and could possibly kill her! Luckily her addiction have been a little easy to kick. She stopped eating it after a visit to the doctor. She decided that her sons life and her own were more important than feeding the addiction
With this episode it makes me wonder, could a tramatic situations really cause a spark in a strange addiction?
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