Mental Health Update

I've heard of this disorder, but I didn't know what it was called until now.

Usually I come online and look up random issues, and today I decided to look up eating disorders. I’ve thought ‘there has got to be more out there than just anorexia and bulimia … something strange and I’m going to find it.” So that is what I did. Now before you people go yelling at me, no, I’m not making fun of those with eating disorders. Here is what I found :

PICA: Pica is an eating disorder typically defined as the persistent eating of non-nutritive substances for a period of at least one month. Individuals with pica have been reported to ingest a wide variety of non-food substances, such as: clay, dirt, sand, stones, pebbles, hair, feces, lead, laundry starch, vinyl gloves, plastic, pencil erasers, ice, fingernails, paper, paint chips, coal, chalk, wood, plaster, light bulbs, needles, string, and burnt matches.

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