As someone who struggled with binge eating - I shall say - the level of shame I'd feel after a 'shock therapy' would motivate me to binge some more. For me - desperation is what started the disordered eating, and shame fueled it.
Kinda like me, I eat really fast to the point that I choke myself and sometimes I don't realize that and continue eating. That started when my food was taken away from me by bullies cause my food was better than the school food which sometimes had spoiled milk and fries so they toke it away from me to eat themselves which caused me to basically starve for quite a few hours (from 6:30 in the morning to 2 or 3 in the evening) and this continued for 3 to 4 years. I'm trying to slow down and it is hard but it always comes back when I'm eating and a family member decides that I've eaten enough or so so they try to take the food away which causes me to go back to eating extremely fast.
I see you wrote that in the past tense. I’m glad you’re no longer struggling, as someone who also had an ED, I know how hard it is to overcome that kind of behaviour and get better. I’m PROUD of you!
Yeah, on top of it being baseless as a “”therapy””, that sort of move is a serious gamble at best. Some people (myself included) respond well to negative feedback (though I doubt that showing me a year’s worth of anything I was eating before I got my health under control would have been all that shocking, I knew full well what needed to change long before I managed to change it), and others respond extremely poorly to it. You need to be meticulously careful how, if at all, you employ that kind of direct, confrontational approach, and that’s a level of delicacy that the producers of this show completely lack.
@@kitieriwhite7758 your story is so sad for so many reasons. your treatment for one, but also the shameful school food and the fact those kids parents couldn’t afford food for their kids if school food was bad. I eat fast too but it’s because as a kid there was a “no toys or electronics at the dinner table” rule which gave me the habit of shovelling food down to continue playing. so definitely not as traumatic but like you, it’s a habit I still live with and it’s hard to undo. I eat faster than anyone I have ever met, except my own sibling who would’ve also had the same rule. I hate not having more time to enjoy food and also still feeling hungry after eating because my stomach hasn’t had a chance to register how much food I’ve eaten. I’ve eaten for 2/3 people at times as a result. thankfully that extremity is rare as the shame often prevents it but it shouldn’t be happening at all.
Anyone else thinking about the corn starch lady's house getting a raid by the police, because they saw her with that bag of white stuff and finding all her hidden starch bags, and then it turns out it's just corn starch, or is it just me?😅
@@therealmayac Hey, it might not be coke. There are plenty of drugs that take the form of white powders. Most take the form of white crystalline powders, actually. I can't think of any off the top of my head you would survive eating in that quantity, but I'm sure they exist. ...God, now I'm reminded of the idiots who snorted crystal LSD at a party, thinking it was coke. Remember kids, just because it's a white powder, doesn't mean you should snort it. Always read the labels/signage when you're at a drug party.
The corn starch and water is a science experiment commonly referred to as Oobleck. It has properties of a solid AND a liquid. If anything it would make me love cornstarch more!😂
There is nothing more infuriating to ke than seeing JJ hand that lady a box of corn starch like "Oh hey you recovering alcoholic, you did such a good job staying sober for the week. Here's a bourbon!" LIKE WHAT ARE YOU DOING I CANT
I was kinda disturbed by how she was dumping the corn starch into the water, it was like they were treating it like a funeral for corn starch which is so fucked considering she lost a child, but maybe im looking too much into it
That's amazing news, hope she's doing well today as well Same for the other real issues (if there were any others) that had to go through that show, hopefully they are in a better place and state of mind
@@alcololicu She said in her video that the show helped her after it ended and that she now appreciates the work the "food experts" did on her, even if at the time she was in denial and agressive towards them. You need to understand that drug addicts (foods and drinks can be a drug just as much as cocaine or meth can be if you are emotionally vulnerable enough) not always respond easily to being confronted to the fact that they are, indeed, drug addicts, and therefore, sick. Many of them go into denial, hostile reactions, defensive behavior, and so on. It also didnt help that she had an enabler family who would indulge her until it went too far.
'We made sculptures out of corn starch to show you the negative effects of it in your life!' 'Wow, thank you TLC, I could not have considered that this was bad for my lifestyle if corn starch didn't look like my husband. You have changed my life, I was not willingly participating in this show to get help until you mocked me with my addiction.'
I mean...the corn starch thing is literally a form of pica (compulsively eating something with little or no nutritional value) which is a disorder in itself. But honestly, in come of these cases, I don't even know if they need to be "fixed". Like, is eating everything with tartar sauce actually that harmful? I haven't watched the episodes, so I don't know if they cite some medical concern. But if not...is there actually a problem? It kinda seems like it's just a show about people who eat things people find gross and shocking, not particularly harmful. Which, if that's the case...yeah, they can shove it. It's none of their business. Hell, if it was a cultural thing, like how the Japanese use rice in nearly everything, I don't think anyone would even comment, even if it was unhealthy.
@@Nixeu42 Yea, I thought the same thing about the tartar sauce lady! The only problem it might cause is a few extra calories, but other than that I don't know what the issue was either. Your point is really good too! It's just that a lot of people on the show suffer from an eating disorder of some sort, so I thought it was disrespectful to name the eaters "freaky". Sounds like a straight up insult, tbh.
Even worse that they hit us with a vague and insensitive definition (a freaky eater is someone who takes an eating habit to the extreme) at the start of each episode as if it's a real medical term. It's no different than if they were talking about binge eating disorder and went "A fat cow is someone who takes portions to the extreme." It's WILD
Because our bodies can get adjusted to poison. Avoid eating any dietary fat for 2 months, then eat something fatty, you'll be so sick you're cured from wanting it (followers of dr. John mcDougall's starch diet know this, it's lovingly called mcDougall's revenge).
It seems fake, like My Strange Addiction-the guy who said he ate plastic bags but you never once saw him swallow one. I also doubt any of these food addictions were real
One of my coworkers was like that. She became anemic after having kids and would eat bags of cornstarch instead of lunch and then complain about her mouth being dry and her stomach hurting. I’d tell her stop eating corn starch then but she said it’s just too good to her. Then she kept trying to make me try it.
I mean, do they ever call them licensed or show any proof they're professionals and not just 'bought it online' type? Unfortunately there is a lot of cheats in therapy...
"Could TLC's health experts be any worse?" Probably not. Even though I like Dr Now, he often fails to recommend therapy for far too many obese people whose obesity is clearly due to using food for comfort, like I did when I was obese.
Dr. Now once said that in his experience, bariatric patients are often unwilling to confront their issues until the physical hunger is removed, so then they see their issues with food originate elsewhere. But it used to bother me too.
this is a great episode. sad how the tv stations constantly abuse the trust of the viewers by insulting their intelligence. bunch of peabrain execs no doubt
And now I'm imagining this with other drugs: "...What the hell was in that bread? Why am I seeing all these colors?" "Oh, I added a little crystal LSD to your sugar. That way it's not LSD anymore." "...What is *wrong* with you?!?"
The shock therapy is so bizarre because... Of COURSE you're eating a ton of any food in a year, let alone your favorites. If they did a round up of everything a normal person eats in a year they'd still have multiple trucks dedicated to specific things and especially ingredients. Like it just doesn't make sense to me.
It reminds me of tv shows (prolly happened in real life too) where a parent catches a teen smoking and makes them smoke an entire carton of cigarettes to try to get them to stop It’s like…who thinks this will work?
I mentioned that punishment in the last video where it was known to happen since at least the 40s but was seen as an outdated punishment that only made lifelong smokers since at least the late 80s.
I did it to myself (not intentionally). In my twenties I had a really dark episode and on an extremely bad day I smoked the whole packet of cigarettes in one evening plus a bottle of wine... It made me feel so freaking bad for the next few days and was followed by some very unpleasant consequences caused by an ex-roommate I never smoked again. If I try, I instantly feel nauseous and unhappy.
I sometimes do that. When there's an unhealthy food that I keep getting cravings for, I let myself binge until I feel sick. It actually works quite well. Although I don't know if it would work if someone else forced me to do it, and if I wasn't knowledgeable about why exactly the food is unhealthy.
It’s like this show expects you to have an imagined guess of what “too much tartar sauce per year” is. I have no idea. This tub? Is it a lot? Is it not a lot? It’s a tub… but for the WHOLE year. I have no idea. The “shock therapy” doesn’t shock me as a viewer. And neither does it do anything for the patients (victims) of the show.
Very fair point. Honestly, if you pulled out a year's worth of anything someone eats daily, it would probably seem like a lot. I don't think a kiddy pool would fit the amount of Cheerios I eat in a month, much less a year.
I remember watching the cornstarch episode a while back but I didn't think of it this way. It's actually awful how they dealt with it!! I hope she managed to break the addiction, regardless.
When I was little, I used to watch this show all the time and I thought they were actual doctors 💀. Can you do a video on the addicted to french fries for freaky eaters? It would be interesting to see what you think about that episode.. Edit: I randomly remembered the time when I watched the cornstarch episode, and then I tried to eat a spoonful of cornstarch, and I spit it all over the counter. I don’t understand how it’s physically possible to even eat cornstarch 😳.
You hit the nail on the head with the psychological reactance to confrontation. When I got diagnosed with POTS, I got so sick from many foods. Couple that with the constant vertigo, I lost weight drastically. My husband got mad, would shame me, confronted me and said "You're nothing but bones. You NEED to eat more", when I literally couldn't help it. A bunch of people were saying that to me as well, so my response to that in my head was "well if you don't like my "bones", I'll show you REAL bones"....ya and that was the final trigger for my restrictive ED. Don't do that to people. Only when he realized what was happening, did he become sympathetic and that helped me realize what I was doing to myself and eat a bit more.
All TLC program formats are bizarre to match the human need to feel better about their own lives by judging how "bad" or "strange" others live. Ultimately it's about the viewership and inherent profits made. It also why I watch you.
I’m surprised JJ and Mike didn’t mix Nikki’s dead kid’s ashes into the corn starch and tell her every time she eats corn starch imagine she’s eating her children
Not only did they bring her more cornstarch, they had her dump it into whatever waterway they were in. That's so bad for the ecosystem to dump nutrients that don't belong into it like that
It can be. But we're talking about a fairly large, fast-moving river, by the looks of it. And it's one bag, of something not extremely nutrient dense and extremely common. Starch is basically what most plants are made of. Also, there's probably more starch from washing clothing getting into that water anyway. Don't get me wrong, casually polluting water isn't great to encourage. But I don't think the ecosystem really noticed. If it was nitrate fertilizer, we'd be having a different conversation.
Kiana - I've been loving your behavior change videos for a while now! I would love to see you cover some of the individuals covered throughout MTV's True Life. I've been rewatching the series recently and wow! So much I would love to hear your comments on.
I 100% prefer the uk version of this show. They do shock therapy too, but also actual therapy (going into why their addiction to a certain food started) and also taste test foods they've never tried/fearful of. All the USA version does is make them feel guilty about their addiction
The fish are fine. It's one bag of extremely biodegradable material, in a river. And clothing starch usage probably adds pounds of it to the water supply daily anyway.
Definitely an oversight. I feel like I need eye protection when pouring a bag of flour into a container, so I can't imagine that much corn starch dust would be fun. They also did it inside a garage, not somewhere well-ventilated. I mean, yeah, the door's open. But I suspect that dust ended up in all sorts of places they didn't want it. We had part of our garage set up for wood-work for years, and the sawdust got everywhere.
Did her husband threaten to take the kids bc of her cornstarch addiction? Or was he dismayed at her addiction & wanted her to get help knowing shes using the corn starch to deal with the emotional trauma from losing her child.
The shock therapy reminds me of the tactics they used to use in Your Are What You Eat with "doctor" Gillian Mckeith. She was also obsessed with people's poop. It was an odd show.
I love chocolate, and standing in a kiddie pool of chocolate would make my day. Also, from watching this show on TH-cam (I've only ever seen any of it on TH-cam) I've convinced myself these two got their degrees from a one-week course online.
My stepdad had a fixation with covering all his food with salt. Ridiculous amounts of salt. Because when he was a kid, his mother was a horrible cook, or would feed him nasty stuff, and he'd cover it until salt was all he could taste. It became his normal.
I used to watch JJ's TH-cam channel and then stopped. Something about her delivery just grates me. As you said, she isn't the best when addressing addiction and to her, "you should get over it" is the best approach. All your evaluations on both these clowns are spot on
The tartar sauce isn't that far fetched. That happened to me with ranch dressing and yes, my obsession became experimental enough that I dipped brownies and cinnamon rolls in ranch. Luckily it was a phase that only lasted a few years. I'm concerned it's returning lately in the form of Sriracha mayo. Ive been putting it on everything
Honestly, you do you. Some people like weird food combinations, and some stuff is unintuitive, but surprisingly good. Or so I've heard. I'm not much of one for combining foodstuffs, most of the time. I hate sandwiches, and just about anything not basically homogenous in composition. I do, however, like to heat my sunflower-butter based protein bars in hot water for 5-10 minutes before eating them. It legitimately makes them taste better. It also means my jaw gets less sore, because those things can be really tough to chew. Nothing wrong with "weird" food choices, so long as they're not causing you legitimate medical issues.
The thing is though... that's not an addiction. Those are too different things. Going through a phase where you eat a lot of something because you like it, is NOT the same as feeling an urge that's impossible to withstand. For these people it's like OCD or alcohol addiction...
@@Jazzisa311 trust me I know the difference. I've battled addiction my whole life. Trouble now, and what brought me to this channel is I beat cigarettes, alcohol and opiates in my life through cold turkey method... The last of which came through family's help and really painful withdrawal symptoms. After having my kids, I knew I had to put them first. Unfortunately I tend to replace one addiction with another and before I realized it, I had a food addition. Or I should say I have one. I think about food all the time, eat compulsively even when I'm not hungry. I eat til I'm uncomfortable or in pain. I hide food, sneak food, buy food I can't afford and recently caught myself stealing a few bucks from my husband because I thought if I couldn't buy and eat a mcflurry I'd snap. I'm not proud of this. It's scary and sometimes gross. But this is the first addiction I've had that I can't cut cold turkey. I can't just stop eating. And junk food is literally everything I look. On billboards and commercials, in grocery stores and on every street corner. I started therapy a few weeks ago, hopefully it helps because I can't keep up like this. But trust me, I'm intimately familiar with addiction
Omg, I don't think I could ever do that but tbh, clay smells so delicious 🤤 I got some red clay cups last year and I spent a full hour smelling them and salivating over the smell
I liked Dr. Pimple Popper until my (nurse) wife pointed out how rude and dismissive she was about nurses. A nurse was demonstrating/explaining something and she was like "why would they have a NURSE doing this they should have a DOCTOR OF BLABLBALA" like... I promise you, a nurse knows on average, more than the doctor does about most things. They're in the damn TRENCHES. I also noticed that there's a huge difference between how mental health is treated by TLC versus by something like A&E. They both have hoarding shows, but in TLCs it almost feels like they try to trigger the hoarders to have breakdowns/tantrums for their ratings. Meanwhile A&E is all about taking it slow, talking about things and making sure the hoarder is comfortable. Oh god and the tartar sauce pool. Writers Barely Concealed Fetish, much?
...Did you capitalize pica for emphasis, or because you thought it was an acronym? Because it's not. It's draw from the Medieval Latin word for "magpie".
I wonder if there's a grain of truth at least to this style of "shock therapy" here you show someone what's in what they're eating. Kind of like in the fast food babies episode where the nutritionist shows the baby's father the amount of fat and sugar his kid is eating per week and he decides to change his diet moving on. If I were in that baby's situation but as an adult and someone showed me the amount of sugar and fat I'm eating per week I'd at least would likely realize that the problem is more serious than I first imagined
That works because it's showing you the "hidden" aspect of the food you're eating, I.E. the actual amount of an ingredient people know is bad for them/needs to be consumed in moderation. It's visually quantifying numbers that were previously purely conceptual to the person. If they broke down what's in the tartar sauce, and showed her the individual ingredients, that might be more effective. But they didn't.
Freaky eaters be like “emily has been addicted cheese wiz for 5 years. To show her how bad it is, we’re crashing tanker truck full of cheese wiz at 140 miles per hour into her nissan altima”
Kiana, can you cover the BBC series Big Meets Bigger, Honey, We're Killing the Kids and The Truth About Food: How to be Slim, and the Channel 4 series The Secret Lives of Slim People? ☺
I really hope there never is one. Because anorexics already have enough on their plate without the TLC "experts" making it worse for them, just for the sake of getting as many views as they can.
These people are complete jerks. everybody needs to stop watching these kinds of shows and enabling people to treat others like that who are suffering and addicted to strange things. ❤Bless her
Hello Kiana, I'm new to your channel and I love your content. However, if I can ask you a question, will you ever talk about other EDs other than obesity? I know it's a big problem but since you're a health channel, I would like to see a video on anorexia or bulimia in very young teens linked to tiktokers, influencers etc... My best friend had bulimia nervosa and sadly passed on June this year. I would really like you to cover these topics because you are well informed and your videos are very well made.
I always smile when shows have a "This is how much xxx you eat in a year". People eat 500kg of food in a year. When you lay it all out it looks like a lot. Somebody should parody it with "This is how much water you drink in a year" and show a swimming pool. Or "This is how much oxygen you breathe in a year" and show hot air balloons. It would show how ridiculous it is.
Hi, Kiana. I'm a fellow Canadian, I'm not sure if you know this, but there is a UK version of freaky eaters. That's the one I like to watch, rather than the TLC one. British documentary shows (similar to reality shows in north america) go for an a lot more realistic portrayal of the people and issues they cover (they don't feel as contrived like the ones from this side of the pond do). There are some major differences between it and the TLC one. For one, the duration of the treatment is 4 weeks instead of 1, some actual therapy is involved, they do try to get to the root cause/bottom of the food related issues faced by the participants. And the gradual process of trying new foods is actually gradual. The experts/hosts are nothing like JJ and co, they genuinely seem to want to help the people on the show. The show overall seems to be a lot less sensationalistic than the TLC version. I'd love to watch your take on it, and whether or not it is, in your opinion, any better than the TLC crap show.
Thank you for exposing these toxic tv shows! There are so many people that I’ve seen needed real help only for the “professionals” to humiliate and exploit them. It’s sad. Not only TLC shows but Dr. Phil really pisses me off too
Mike Dow is one seriously creepy looking guy. I looked him up, and no surprise, this is his bio. Bolded words my own emphasis: About Psychotherapist, author and television personality who has rapidly gained fame as an expert on numerous shows like E!'s *Sex with Brody,* Logo's *That Sex Show,* VH1's Couples Therapy, and TLC's Freaky Eaters. He has also authored the self-help books Diet Rehab and The Brain Fog Fix. Before Fame He earned a masters of science in counseling, marriage and family therapy and a doctorate in psychology. He also later went on to pursue a second doctorate in *clinical sexology.* ____ His face doesn't even look like a real face.
Cornstarch and water make a non-Newtonian fluid that is solid under pressure (like if you slap it or run across it) but liquid otherwise. It's something we did in like 7th grade science class (it's also a fun at-home science project). And yeah super gimmicky.
@KianaDocherty you need to do a video about Gwen shamblin. She was a cult leader who died in 2021. She led her followers to ‘lose weight through god’ and got rich from it while ruining many lives. I know it’s not your usual niche but it kind of is given the subject matter. I think you’d be fascinated by it and would make for a great video!
In an age where we probably need proper health advice more than ever, leave it up to The Learning Channel to leave us in a sea of misinformation without our floaties.
They could’ve told the cornstarch lady she should wipe the residue off of her mouth, lol they just let it stay there while they asked her questions on camera 😂
I'm more surprised to see that some people eat Corn Starch dry, that just seems like a very unpleasant experience. But yeah, that channel looks like absolute rubbish.
Cornstarch mixed with water becomes a non-newtonian fluid, so that applying force (e.g. the force exerted by walking), causes it to act like a solid. Cool science thing, unnecessary drama for that poor lady.
I've been eating a mostly raw vegan diet for the last few months. I've lost nearly 40lbs in that time and am well on my way to achieving my ideal body weight. I'm around 10 or so pounds from this. Today I ground up some carrots, chopped up some sweet potatoes and boiled it all up. Lastly I added some coconut soup. I cannot eat it. It's so boring I cannot tell you. So I just ordered a massive meaty pizza and cheese burger from my local take-a-way. I don't feel bad at all!
The corn starch lady looked so happy to see a pool full of corn starch. I think she said she was giving up only because she had to. After all, looking at a mountain of chocolate would only make me want more chocolate.
The corn starch thing is real. There are many videos of women eating bricks of corn starch. Just look it up. A lot of the videos are asmr of them crunching and chewing on the compressed corn starch bricks.
Okay tartar sauce I may understand. I love that stuff. Never tried it on cake, but perhaps it's time to open some closed doors....these food therapists seem like random people off the street.
These two feel like a neurotypical person telling someone with clinical depression to 'Just stop being sad! Drink some water and yoga instead! It 'cured' my depression!' But the conversation goes on for thirty minutes, you are encouraged to just go 'yeah this will cure my depression!', and it's aired on TV for randos to harshly judge you over.
2 parts cornstarch mixed with 1 part water creates a non-Newtonian fluid, that changes its viscosity depending on STRESS. In other words the HARDER YOU PUSH THE MORE IT RESISTS, Kind of poetic really given the methods these "therapists" are using.
As someone who struggled with binge eating - I shall say - the level of shame I'd feel after a 'shock therapy' would motivate me to binge some more. For me - desperation is what started the disordered eating, and shame fueled it.
Kinda like me, I eat really fast to the point that I choke myself and sometimes I don't realize that and continue eating. That started when my food was taken away from me by bullies cause my food was better than the school food which sometimes had spoiled milk and fries so they toke it away from me to eat themselves which caused me to basically starve for quite a few hours (from 6:30 in the morning to 2 or 3 in the evening) and this continued for 3 to 4 years. I'm trying to slow down and it is hard but it always comes back when I'm eating and a family member decides that I've eaten enough or so so they try to take the food away which causes me to go back to eating extremely fast.
I see you wrote that in the past tense. I’m glad you’re no longer struggling, as someone who also had an ED, I know how hard it is to overcome that kind of behaviour and get better. I’m PROUD of you!
@@AgathaDrinksTea Thank you for your kind words!
Yeah, on top of it being baseless as a “”therapy””, that sort of move is a serious gamble at best. Some people (myself included) respond well to negative feedback (though I doubt that showing me a year’s worth of anything I was eating before I got my health under control would have been all that shocking, I knew full well what needed to change long before I managed to change it), and others respond extremely poorly to it. You need to be meticulously careful how, if at all, you employ that kind of direct, confrontational approach, and that’s a level of delicacy that the producers of this show completely lack.
@@kitieriwhite7758 your story is so sad for so many reasons. your treatment for one, but also the shameful school food and the fact those kids parents couldn’t afford food for their kids if school food was bad. I eat fast too but it’s because as a kid there was a “no toys or electronics at the dinner table” rule which gave me the habit of shovelling food down to continue playing. so definitely not as traumatic but like you, it’s a habit I still live with and it’s hard to undo. I eat faster than anyone I have ever met, except my own sibling who would’ve also had the same rule. I hate not having more time to enjoy food and also still feeling hungry after eating because my stomach hasn’t had a chance to register how much food I’ve eaten. I’ve eaten for 2/3 people at times as a result. thankfully that extremity is rare as the shame often prevents it but it shouldn’t be happening at all.
Anyone else thinking about the corn starch lady's house getting a raid by the police, because they saw her with that bag of white stuff and finding all her hidden starch bags, and then it turns out it's just corn starch, or is it just me?😅
"that's what they all say'
Imagine if it IS drugs and we're just here thinking it's just a lady with a corn starch problem lol
@@OPPAWONTMARRYYOUimagine if it's drugs and she's just eating tablespoons of coke at a time 💀
No
@@therealmayac Hey, it might not be coke. There are plenty of drugs that take the form of white powders. Most take the form of white crystalline powders, actually. I can't think of any off the top of my head you would survive eating in that quantity, but I'm sure they exist.
...God, now I'm reminded of the idiots who snorted crystal LSD at a party, thinking it was coke. Remember kids, just because it's a white powder, doesn't mean you should snort it. Always read the labels/signage when you're at a drug party.
The corn starch and water is a science experiment commonly referred to as Oobleck. It has properties of a solid AND a liquid. If anything it would make me love cornstarch more!😂
Exactly! These shock therapies look EXCITING! lmao
If she is already addicted to cornstarch, I don't think having her play in it will make her be less addicted...
That looked fun
pretty sure it’s not great for the environment either so yay!
That's what I thought! Looks more like fun than a turn-off
There is nothing more infuriating to ke than seeing JJ hand that lady a box of corn starch like
"Oh hey you recovering alcoholic, you did such a good job staying sober for the week. Here's a bourbon!"
LIKE WHAT ARE YOU DOING I CANT
I keep getting JJ’s videos recommended to me on TH-cam!
I was kinda disturbed by how she was dumping the corn starch into the water, it was like they were treating it like a funeral for corn starch which is so fucked considering she lost a child, but maybe im looking too much into it
@Jen-Chapin Given your channel, I can see why lol
SHE ADDED MORE CORNSTARCH like that made me furious. Disgusting behavior
That fake therapist seemed like a bit of a bitch to me.
If you ever hear, " why don't you just stop?" from an addiction counselor OR ANY KIND of supposed mental heath professional,just run. Run away.
Like telling a depressed person to ‘just cheer up’
Obese ? Just lose weight! It's that easy!!!!
No don’t run away . Listen
Don't listen. They are not real professionals and can't actually help you. Find a better counselor@@vision5092
Cola girl was definitely real. She later appeared on Dr. Phil and posted an update on her condition on her own channel. She’s been off soda for years.
Omg good for her
if i recall correctly the didn't show successful on this show
... proves how effective Freaky Eaters was once again :D
That's amazing news, hope she's doing well today as well
Same for the other real issues (if there were any others) that had to go through that show, hopefully they are in a better place and state of mind
@@alcololicu She said in her video that the show helped her after it ended and that she now appreciates the work the "food experts" did on her, even if at the time she was in denial and agressive towards them. You need to understand that drug addicts (foods and drinks can be a drug just as much as cocaine or meth can be if you are emotionally vulnerable enough) not always respond easily to being confronted to the fact that they are, indeed, drug addicts, and therefore, sick. Many of them go into denial, hostile reactions, defensive behavior, and so on. It also didnt help that she had an enabler family who would indulge her until it went too far.
To be fair i'd want to BUY that amount of cornstarch, running across it full of water looks pretty fun not gonna lie~
Filling a pool with oobleck (which is what they made) and running over it does sound like it could be a fun afternoon.
i feel so bad when they waste so much food, and for what?
THANK YOU for pointing this out. It's just so wasteful, it hurts!
Corn starch and tartar sauce is hardly food
@@jdl2962it could still be used to make food, and it still cost energy to make.
@@jdl2962 they bought a truck full of cheese burgers that one time
Homless, poor and starving people around the world could use a spoon of that food for sure. It's so stupid what humans do sometimes 😢
'We made sculptures out of corn starch to show you the negative effects of it in your life!'
'Wow, thank you TLC, I could not have considered that this was bad for my lifestyle if corn starch didn't look like my husband. You have changed my life, I was not willingly participating in this show to get help until you mocked me with my addiction.'
I so appreciate Kiana's analytical lens on freaky eaters. I couldnt watch it otherwise.
I hate that they call the people freaks/freaky. They don't just "keep up with a bad habit", most of them have disorders and/or addictions.
I mean...the corn starch thing is literally a form of pica (compulsively eating something with little or no nutritional value) which is a disorder in itself. But honestly, in come of these cases, I don't even know if they need to be "fixed". Like, is eating everything with tartar sauce actually that harmful? I haven't watched the episodes, so I don't know if they cite some medical concern. But if not...is there actually a problem? It kinda seems like it's just a show about people who eat things people find gross and shocking, not particularly harmful. Which, if that's the case...yeah, they can shove it. It's none of their business. Hell, if it was a cultural thing, like how the Japanese use rice in nearly everything, I don't think anyone would even comment, even if it was unhealthy.
@@Nixeu42 Yea, I thought the same thing about the tartar sauce lady! The only problem it might cause is a few extra calories, but other than that I don't know what the issue was either. Your point is really good too! It's just that a lot of people on the show suffer from an eating disorder of some sort, so I thought it was disrespectful to name the eaters "freaky". Sounds like a straight up insult, tbh.
Even worse that they hit us with a vague and insensitive definition (a freaky eater is someone who takes an eating habit to the extreme) at the start of each episode as if it's a real medical term. It's no different than if they were talking about binge eating disorder and went "A fat cow is someone who takes portions to the extreme." It's WILD
These shows perpetuate the myth that if you just yell an addict enough they'll just "snap out of it"
Wait, so you're saying that doing snow angels in corn starch isn't an effective treatment against addiction!? 🤣
How can anyone eat bags of corn starch, which expands in warmth and moisture, and not obstruct their bowel within days?
Because our bodies can get adjusted to poison. Avoid eating any dietary fat for 2 months, then eat something fatty, you'll be so sick you're cured from wanting it (followers of dr. John mcDougall's starch diet know this, it's lovingly called mcDougall's revenge).
It seems fake, like My Strange Addiction-the guy who said he ate plastic bags but you never once saw him swallow one. I also doubt any of these food addictions were real
One of my coworkers was like that. She became anemic after having kids and would eat bags of cornstarch instead of lunch and then complain about her mouth being dry and her stomach hurting. I’d tell her stop eating corn starch then but she said it’s just too good to her. Then she kept trying to make me try it.
@@joelle4226 Monsanto thanks her, that stuff is glyphosphate rich and very heavily subsidised. You couldn't pay me to eat it :).
@@joelle4226 lmaooo she was like a stereotypical drug dealer “hey kid, comere…first hits free”
I’m always so excited when you upload! You have such a well researched, eloquent and empathetic approach to these topics.
thank you
Sometimes I wonder how these doctors get their licenses in the first place
I mean, do they ever call them licensed or show any proof they're professionals and not just 'bought it online' type? Unfortunately there is a lot of cheats in therapy...
They found it in a corn starch box.
@@FinalFaith lol
you know what they call a doctor who graduated at the bottom of their class??
doctor.
@@shesathornbackvery well said!
"Could TLC's health experts be any worse?"
Probably not.
Even though I like Dr Now, he often fails to recommend therapy for far too many obese people whose obesity is clearly due to using food for comfort, like I did when I was obese.
Dr. Now once said that in his experience, bariatric patients are often unwilling to confront their issues until the physical hunger is removed, so then they see their issues with food originate elsewhere. But it used to bother me too.
this is a great episode. sad how the tv stations constantly abuse the trust of the viewers by insulting their intelligence. bunch of peabrain execs no doubt
I love how analytical and straight to the point you are
Main reason I hate these types of shows, that show how much food. Is the amount of food that must go to waste.
The food they waste usually isn’t something a person should be ingesting anyway.
I literally think about the tartar sauce lady every single day of my life ever since I've seen that episode...
How can anyone eat tartar on chocolate cake 😭😭 Like it's so bland and mild on its own. It literally only works on fish
“Hey, I mixed a little cocaine in with your oatmeal. That way it’s not cocaine!” WHAT?
And now I'm imagining this with other drugs:
"...What the hell was in that bread? Why am I seeing all these colors?"
"Oh, I added a little crystal LSD to your sugar. That way it's not LSD anymore."
"...What is *wrong* with you?!?"
The shock therapy is so bizarre because... Of COURSE you're eating a ton of any food in a year, let alone your favorites. If they did a round up of everything a normal person eats in a year they'd still have multiple trucks dedicated to specific things and especially ingredients. Like it just doesn't make sense to me.
This is what I think every time! And it’s such a waste of food, it’s weird.
It reminds me of tv shows (prolly happened in real life too) where a parent catches a teen smoking and makes them smoke an entire carton of cigarettes to try to get them to stop
It’s like…who thinks this will work?
I mentioned that punishment in the last video where it was known to happen since at least the 40s but was seen as an outdated punishment that only made lifelong smokers since at least the late 80s.
My parents 🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
I did it to myself (not intentionally). In my twenties I had a really dark episode and on an extremely bad day I smoked the whole packet of cigarettes in one evening plus a bottle of wine... It made me feel so freaking bad for the next few days and was followed by some very unpleasant consequences caused by an ex-roommate I never smoked again. If I try, I instantly feel nauseous and unhappy.
I sometimes do that. When there's an unhealthy food that I keep getting cravings for, I let myself binge until I feel sick. It actually works quite well.
Although I don't know if it would work if someone else forced me to do it, and if I wasn't knowledgeable about why exactly the food is unhealthy.
It’s like this show expects you to have an imagined guess of what “too much tartar sauce per year” is. I have no idea. This tub? Is it a lot? Is it not a lot? It’s a tub… but for the WHOLE year. I have no idea. The “shock therapy” doesn’t shock me as a viewer. And neither does it do anything for the patients (victims) of the show.
Very fair point. Honestly, if you pulled out a year's worth of anything someone eats daily, it would probably seem like a lot. I don't think a kiddy pool would fit the amount of Cheerios I eat in a month, much less a year.
I remember watching the cornstarch episode a while back but I didn't think of it this way. It's actually awful how they dealt with it!! I hope she managed to break the addiction, regardless.
When I was little, I used to watch this show all the time and I thought they were actual doctors 💀. Can you do a video on the addicted to french fries for freaky eaters? It would be interesting to see what you think about that episode..
Edit: I randomly remembered the time when I watched the cornstarch episode, and then I tried to eat a spoonful of cornstarch, and I spit it all over the counter. I don’t understand how it’s physically possible to even eat cornstarch 😳.
Same, I used to watch it with my grandma
The maple syrup episode was awful
You hit the nail on the head with the psychological reactance to confrontation. When I got diagnosed with POTS, I got so sick from many foods. Couple that with the constant vertigo, I lost weight drastically. My husband got mad, would shame me, confronted me and said "You're nothing but bones. You NEED to eat more", when I literally couldn't help it. A bunch of people were saying that to me as well, so my response to that in my head was "well if you don't like my "bones", I'll show you REAL bones"....ya and that was the final trigger for my restrictive ED. Don't do that to people. Only when he realized what was happening, did he become sympathetic and that helped me realize what I was doing to myself and eat a bit more.
All TLC program formats are bizarre to match the human need to feel better about their own lives by judging how "bad" or "strange" others live.
Ultimately it's about the viewership and inherent profits made.
It also why I watch you.
Having a visceral reaction to that woman putting tartar sauce on eggos.
LOL
I’m surprised JJ and Mike didn’t mix Nikki’s dead kid’s ashes into the corn starch and tell her every time she eats corn starch imagine she’s eating her children
Not only did they bring her more cornstarch, they had her dump it into whatever waterway they were in. That's so bad for the ecosystem to dump nutrients that don't belong into it like that
It can be. But we're talking about a fairly large, fast-moving river, by the looks of it. And it's one bag, of something not extremely nutrient dense and extremely common. Starch is basically what most plants are made of. Also, there's probably more starch from washing clothing getting into that water anyway. Don't get me wrong, casually polluting water isn't great to encourage. But I don't think the ecosystem really noticed. If it was nitrate fertilizer, we'd be having a different conversation.
It's great to be conscious about the environment, but 500gm of corn edible, biodegradable corn starch? It's probably gonna be food for the fish
Kiana - I've been loving your behavior change videos for a while now! I would love to see you cover some of the individuals covered throughout MTV's True Life. I've been rewatching the series recently and wow! So much I would love to hear your comments on.
I 100% prefer the uk version of this show. They do shock therapy too, but also actual therapy (going into why their addiction to a certain food started) and also taste test foods they've never tried/fearful of. All the USA version does is make them feel guilty about their addiction
Me too! And they have 4 weeks to try and actually help, unlike TLC's 1 week just for show and pretend.
They put the cornstarch in the lake??!?! Those poor fish😂
The fish are fine. It's one bag of extremely biodegradable material, in a river. And clothing starch usage probably adds pounds of it to the water supply daily anyway.
Anyone else notice how they got the suits and masks for all the cornstarch, but no eye protection?
Definitely an oversight. I feel like I need eye protection when pouring a bag of flour into a container, so I can't imagine that much corn starch dust would be fun. They also did it inside a garage, not somewhere well-ventilated. I mean, yeah, the door's open. But I suspect that dust ended up in all sorts of places they didn't want it. We had part of our garage set up for wood-work for years, and the sawdust got everywhere.
Did her husband threaten to take the kids bc of her cornstarch addiction? Or was he dismayed at her addiction & wanted her to get help knowing shes using the corn starch to deal with the emotional trauma from losing her child.
The shock therapy reminds me of the tactics they used to use in Your Are What You Eat with "doctor" Gillian Mckeith. She was also obsessed with people's poop. It was an odd show.
I love chocolate, and standing in a kiddie pool of chocolate would make my day. Also, from watching this show on TH-cam (I've only ever seen any of it on TH-cam) I've convinced myself these two got their degrees from a one-week course online.
My stepdad had a fixation with covering all his food with salt.
Ridiculous amounts of salt.
Because when he was a kid, his mother was a horrible cook, or would feed him nasty stuff, and he'd cover it until salt was all he could taste.
It became his normal.
I'm so sorry, I hope he gets better ❤️🩹
I used to watch JJ's TH-cam channel and then stopped. Something about her delivery just grates me. As you said, she isn't the best when addressing addiction and to her, "you should get over it" is the best approach. All your evaluations on both these clowns are spot on
Why of all things does she eat corn starch? Corn starch tastes even worse than plain flour. 🙈
There are people who regularly eat pins and sharp objects. As forms of pica go, eating corn starch is on the milder side.
The tartar sauce isn't that far fetched. That happened to me with ranch dressing and yes, my obsession became experimental enough that I dipped brownies and cinnamon rolls in ranch. Luckily it was a phase that only lasted a few years. I'm concerned it's returning lately in the form of Sriracha mayo. Ive been putting it on everything
Honestly, you do you. Some people like weird food combinations, and some stuff is unintuitive, but surprisingly good. Or so I've heard. I'm not much of one for combining foodstuffs, most of the time. I hate sandwiches, and just about anything not basically homogenous in composition. I do, however, like to heat my sunflower-butter based protein bars in hot water for 5-10 minutes before eating them. It legitimately makes them taste better. It also means my jaw gets less sore, because those things can be really tough to chew. Nothing wrong with "weird" food choices, so long as they're not causing you legitimate medical issues.
@@Nixeu42what bars do you eat and do you put them in hot water in the package or without the package?
The thing is though... that's not an addiction. Those are too different things. Going through a phase where you eat a lot of something because you like it, is NOT the same as feeling an urge that's impossible to withstand. For these people it's like OCD or alcohol addiction...
@@Jazzisa311 trust me I know the difference. I've battled addiction my whole life. Trouble now, and what brought me to this channel is I beat cigarettes, alcohol and opiates in my life through cold turkey method... The last of which came through family's help and really painful withdrawal symptoms. After having my kids, I knew I had to put them first.
Unfortunately I tend to replace one addiction with another and before I realized it, I had a food addition. Or I should say I have one.
I think about food all the time, eat compulsively even when I'm not hungry. I eat til I'm uncomfortable or in pain. I hide food, sneak food, buy food I can't afford and recently caught myself stealing a few bucks from my husband because I thought if I couldn't buy and eat a mcflurry I'd snap.
I'm not proud of this. It's scary and sometimes gross. But this is the first addiction I've had that I can't cut cold turkey. I can't just stop eating. And junk food is literally everything I look. On billboards and commercials, in grocery stores and on every street corner.
I started therapy a few weeks ago, hopefully it helps because I can't keep up like this.
But trust me, I'm intimately familiar with addiction
@@rawxane GoMacro, and the former. Without the package would probably result in it just dissolving.
Way to go Kiara. Love the content. Keep up the good work.
Kiana*
Kiana,this is so incredibly off topic but can you do a hair sponsorship... I want whatever you're using 😍 now going to watch the video haha
As someone with a clay eating addiction, I so understand this.
Yes I know it’s dangerous. No. I cannot stop.
Check your calcium level, my mom was addicted to it and later found out that her calcium level is critically low
@@veronikpavlova I really would do that. Thought it was just iron deficiency, which I have been tested for
Troll
Omg, I don't think I could ever do that but tbh, clay smells so delicious 🤤 I got some red clay cups last year and I spent a full hour smelling them and salivating over the smell
You dye your hair? Makes you look like Morticia Addams. In a good way
kiana just made my week by uploading
The shock therapy is what normally gets me
I liked Dr. Pimple Popper until my (nurse) wife pointed out how rude and dismissive she was about nurses. A nurse was demonstrating/explaining something and she was like "why would they have a NURSE doing this they should have a DOCTOR OF BLABLBALA" like... I promise you, a nurse knows on average, more than the doctor does about most things. They're in the damn TRENCHES.
I also noticed that there's a huge difference between how mental health is treated by TLC versus by something like A&E. They both have hoarding shows, but in TLCs it almost feels like they try to trigger the hoarders to have breakdowns/tantrums for their ratings. Meanwhile A&E is all about taking it slow, talking about things and making sure the hoarder is comfortable.
Oh god and the tartar sauce pool. Writers Barely Concealed Fetish, much?
PICA is a legit ED❤
...Did you capitalize pica for emphasis, or because you thought it was an acronym? Because it's not. It's draw from the Medieval Latin word for "magpie".
@@Nixeu42 BECAUSE I FELT LIKE IT KUNT 😊
The UK version is a full hour and i think they do a better job. It isnt enough either, but its better.
J.J walks, and looks arrogant and condescending. With someone like that immediately makes me defiant.
I wonder if there's a grain of truth at least to this style of "shock therapy" here you show someone what's in what they're eating. Kind of like in the fast food babies episode where the nutritionist shows the baby's father the amount of fat and sugar his kid is eating per week and he decides to change his diet moving on. If I were in that baby's situation but as an adult and someone showed me the amount of sugar and fat I'm eating per week I'd at least would likely realize that the problem is more serious than I first imagined
That works because it's showing you the "hidden" aspect of the food you're eating, I.E. the actual amount of an ingredient people know is bad for them/needs to be consumed in moderation. It's visually quantifying numbers that were previously purely conceptual to the person. If they broke down what's in the tartar sauce, and showed her the individual ingredients, that might be more effective. But they didn't.
Extreme cheapskates I know its not food related but if you're doing behavior change tlc shows that sounds like a great show to dig into 😁
It is if they cook their lasagna in a dishwasher.
Auto-like, Kiana. If I can, I watch your videos as soon as you drop them. Lots of love ❤
Freaky eaters be like “emily has been addicted cheese wiz for 5 years. To show her how bad it is, we’re crashing tanker truck full of cheese wiz at 140 miles per hour into her nissan altima”
lmfaoooo
Kiana, can you cover the BBC series Big Meets Bigger, Honey, We're Killing the Kids and The Truth About Food: How to be Slim, and the Channel 4 series The Secret Lives of Slim People? ☺
I always wanted to see a TLC show about anorexics just to see how horribly they’d handle the situation
Anorexia is so dangerous short term (due to the damage it can cause to the heart) that they probably would actually kill people.
I really hope there never is one. Because anorexics already have enough on their plate without the TLC "experts" making it worse for them, just for the sake of getting as many views as they can.
TLC just shouldn't exist at all. It's a modern day freak show. It exploits vulnerable people.
I don't watch Scripted Trash TV.
It feels like a 1800s Freakshow.
These people are complete jerks. everybody needs to stop watching these kinds of shows and enabling people to treat others like that who are suffering and addicted to strange things.
❤Bless her
I’m a doctor, I’m addicted to sleeping pills, i KNOW it’s bad, dumping a truckload of those pills is gonna make me eat them all 🤦🏻
I had a weird "connection" with Buffalo sauce. It mostly had to do with the spiciness. I ate everything with it. I kinda still do.
2:18 10/10 great acting performance 😂 (when you looked up)
Hello Kiana, I'm new to your channel and I love your content. However, if I can ask you a question, will you ever talk about other EDs other than obesity? I know it's a big problem but since you're a health channel, I would like to see a video on anorexia or bulimia in very young teens linked to tiktokers, influencers etc...
My best friend had bulimia nervosa and sadly passed on June this year. I would really like you to cover these topics because you are well informed and your videos are very well made.
I always smile when shows have a "This is how much xxx you eat in a year". People eat 500kg of food in a year. When you lay it all out it looks like a lot. Somebody should parody it with "This is how much water you drink in a year" and show a swimming pool. Or "This is how much oxygen you breathe in a year" and show hot air balloons. It would show how ridiculous it is.
Oh, a hot air balloon would definitely not cover how much oxygen you breathe in a year,
@@Nixeu42ok addict
Hi, Kiana. I'm a fellow Canadian, I'm not sure if you know this, but there is a UK version of freaky eaters. That's the one I like to watch, rather than the TLC one. British documentary shows (similar to reality shows in north america) go for an a lot more realistic portrayal of the people and issues they cover (they don't feel as contrived like the ones from this side of the pond do). There are some major differences between it and the TLC one. For one, the duration of the treatment is 4 weeks instead of 1, some actual therapy is involved, they do try to get to the root cause/bottom of the food related issues faced by the participants. And the gradual process of trying new foods is actually gradual. The experts/hosts are nothing like JJ and co, they genuinely seem to want to help the people on the show. The show overall seems to be a lot less sensationalistic than the TLC version. I'd love to watch your take on it, and whether or not it is, in your opinion, any better than the TLC crap show.
"Why don't you just stop" omg my addiction to nicotine cured lol 😆 😂
Thank you for exposing these toxic tv shows! There are so many people that I’ve seen needed real help only for the “professionals” to humiliate and exploit them. It’s sad. Not only TLC shows but Dr. Phil really pisses me off too
HONEY WAKE UP KIANA HAS POSTED
Mike Dow is one seriously creepy looking guy. I looked him up, and no surprise, this is his bio. Bolded words my own emphasis:
About
Psychotherapist, author and television personality who has rapidly gained fame as an expert on numerous shows like E!'s *Sex with Brody,* Logo's *That Sex Show,* VH1's Couples Therapy, and TLC's Freaky Eaters. He has also authored the self-help books Diet Rehab and The Brain Fog Fix.
Before Fame
He earned a masters of science in counseling, marriage and family therapy and a doctorate in psychology. He also later went on to pursue a second doctorate in *clinical sexology.*
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His face doesn't even look like a real face.
LOL thank you for reminding me why I never got cable tv in my life 😂
Substitute for corn starch is corn starch + protein powder? So if i water down my whiskey am I still sober?
Cornstarch and water make a non-Newtonian fluid that is solid under pressure (like if you slap it or run across it) but liquid otherwise. It's something we did in like 7th grade science class (it's also a fun at-home science project). And yeah super gimmicky.
@KianaDocherty you need to do a video about Gwen shamblin. She was a cult leader who died in 2021. She led her followers to ‘lose weight through god’ and got rich from it while ruining many lives. I know it’s not your usual niche but it kind of is given the subject matter. I think you’d be fascinated by it and would make for a great video!
In an age where we probably need proper health advice more than ever, leave it up to The Learning Channel to leave us in a sea of misinformation without our floaties.
They could’ve told the cornstarch lady she should wipe the residue off of her mouth, lol they just let it stay there while they asked her questions on camera 😂
I'm more surprised to see that some people eat Corn Starch dry, that just seems like a very unpleasant experience.
But yeah, that channel looks like absolute rubbish.
If we ever get a corn starch shortage, imma blame these "experts" for it.
Esthetician here! I hate dr pimple popper😂 there’s so much misinformation and just bad advice 🙅🏻♀️
this definitely confirms that TLC can't get anything right LOL
She’s so annoying. Her TH-cam channel is everywhere and she posts nothing but the same video compilations over and over 🤦♂️
Cornstarch mixed with water becomes a non-newtonian fluid, so that applying force (e.g. the force exerted by walking), causes it to act like a solid. Cool science thing, unnecessary drama for that poor lady.
I've been eating a mostly raw vegan diet for the last few months. I've lost nearly 40lbs in that time and am well on my way to achieving my ideal body weight. I'm around 10 or so pounds from this. Today I ground up some carrots, chopped up some sweet potatoes and boiled it all up. Lastly I added some coconut soup. I cannot eat it. It's so boring I cannot tell you. So I just ordered a massive meaty pizza and cheese burger from my local take-a-way. I don't feel bad at all!
that explains the coke addict episode. i just couldn't see how she couldn't weigh way more then she did with everything they reported
Not me on my way to inappropriately touch some tartar sauce 😏
The corn starch lady looked so happy to see a pool full of corn starch. I think she said she was giving up only because she had to. After all, looking at a mountain of chocolate would only make me want more chocolate.
Wouldn't showing a person a massive amount of something that they are addicted to just put them in a frenzy?
I hate the shock therapy parts in these shows so much! YOU’RE JUST WASTING FOOD!
Ok but....youre having people play in food...that...thats not a shock therapy. That just sounds fun
PLEASE talk more about supersize vs superskinny 🤞🏼
The corn starch thing is real. There are many videos of women eating bricks of corn starch. Just look it up. A lot of the videos are asmr of them crunching and chewing on the compressed corn starch bricks.
Okay tartar sauce I may understand. I love that stuff. Never tried it on cake, but perhaps it's time to open some closed doors....these food therapists seem like random people off the street.
These two feel like a neurotypical person telling someone with clinical depression to 'Just stop being sad! Drink some water and yoga instead! It 'cured' my depression!' But the conversation goes on for thirty minutes, you are encouraged to just go 'yeah this will cure my depression!', and it's aired on TV for randos to harshly judge you over.
2 parts cornstarch mixed with 1 part water creates a non-Newtonian fluid, that changes its viscosity depending on STRESS. In other words the HARDER YOU PUSH THE MORE IT RESISTS, Kind of poetic really given the methods these "therapists" are using.
Can’t believe there is people that decide to willingly watch TLC shows.
Drew Gooden made a video making fun of this reality show, I never laughed so hard
*TOTALLY OFF TOPIC BUT I GOTTA SAY IT:* You have beautiful hair!
Corn starch, like ice chewing, are signs of iron deficiency. Maybe start by taking her to an actual doctor.
No wonder ppl have such skewed and negative views of psych and therapy.
wtf ur hair looks better n better every single video kiana