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Shakyia was always chubby, but now she does not leave the house and makes no effort; her older sister rallies her to Houston to meet Dr. Now and lose weight, but she is in for a shock when her mother decides that caring for her is just too much.

Krystal begins overeating to shield herself with a protective layer of obesity after suffering years of abuse; once a means of protection, her pathological eating now threatens to destroy her life if she doesn't get help.

When Travis gets too big to walk down the aisle, he promises to give his wife a proper wedding; he gains more weight, leaving Dr Now as Travis' only hope to lose weight and get the life he and his wife dreamed of having together.

Doctors suspect a woman in pain of being neurotic.

A single mother finds she can no longer walk.

A military wife suffers a sudden paralysis in her leg that defies explanation; doctors discover it may have something to do with her husband's top secret work.

When a young woman goes to the ER with severe abdominal pains, the doctors find a rare and virulent type of cancer that gives her ten years to live.

Daily stomach cramps reveal some of the most common parasites in nature.

Stories of parasites that reside inside their traveling hosts; an Iraq war veteran pulls a foot-long worm from his body.

A man tries hookworms to cure his allergies; a bloodsucker gets into a writer's nose.

Thousands of silent monsters are discovered living in a mother's intestine tissue, but she's never left the country; Three stories of parasitic infection with one thing in common, they all originate in America.

A factory worker begins to go blind; a local restaurant starts an outbreak involving a parasite.

Danielle has been addicted to vapor rub for more than 20 years, going through more than 30 jars, inhalers and patches every week; 19-year-old Allison has been eating tires for the past six years, consuming 14 pounds every month.

Nicole's addiction to Pony Play; Heather's addicted to drinking paint.

Amy and Becky are addicted to being identical; Jennifer addicted to eating mattresses.

A 44-year-old mother of six has had at least 30 plastic surgery procedures to build the most extreme body in the world; she plans to go under the knife again to double her breast size to a shocking QQQ.

Keisha is addicted to chewing on urine-soaked diapers; 50-year-old Vladimir is obsessed with using leeches.

Robert consumes up to 16 plastic bags every week; 48-year-old Catherine can't part from her plastic doll.

Linda has been married to a 70-foot carnival ride, Bruce, for three years; in 12 years Patrice has consumed approximately half a ton of bricks.

29-year-old Carolyn Anderson is addicted to transforming herself into the "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson.

Jessica is a little person with dangerous toppling piles of clutter; along with her mother she has filled her entire home.

After being the target of a school shooting a former principal's life has changed; paralyzed by PTSD and hoarding Wayne has abandoned his family.

A wife has transformed one couple's home into a heap of trash; on the verge of foreclosure.

Frank didn't expect Susan to fill his house with clutter when she moved in; though her home of forty-eight years sits condemned just two blocks away.

Geoffrey lost his home and has 30 days to clear the clutter, or he will lose everything left inside.

Jessica is a little person with dangerous toppling piles of clutter; along with her mother she has filled her entire home.