On a pica-related note,
The contents of a mental patient's stomach on display:
upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/03/Glore_Stomach_Display.jpg
SFW!
( Cawl, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 15:49, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

mmmmm nails
nom nom nom
( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 16:06, Reply)

She had pica
(named for the latin for magpie - pica pica - which is possibly the most AWESOME THING EVER)
where you have a desire to eat non-nutritional substances, such as dirt, paper, or in this case, nails.
Often triggered by anaemia.


EDIT: Didn't see the "pica" bit. Soz. Well at least you now know that the latin for magpie sounds like a noise a pokémon makes.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 16:31, Reply)

*sighs*
I got that image FROM the pica page.
I knew that. STOP WASTING MY TIME.
( Cawl, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 16:33, Reply)

YES I know.
Because I saw that page when I had my hypochondriacattack and was convinced I had everything under the sun.*

That was for the benefit of people who DON'T know about pica. And I didn't even look it up!



*personal favourite self-diagnosis was of THIS
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 16:36, Reply)

Self-diagnosis is a
Slippery slope.
Next it'll be s-d'd Arse-burgers.
( Cawl, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 16:40, Reply)

I hate self-diagnoses, really
As much as professional ones. Though I have had some mis-diagnoses: rhinusitis when I just had a cold, and everything from non-Epsein-Barr virus to the flu when I broke out in a horrible rash and didn't move, eat or drink for 3 days. Fun. Though mis-diagnoses are typical I guess, I'm not lambasting the medical profession, believe me!

As for the Arse-burgers... I have NEVER diagnosed myself with that.
( Lampito rise with the moon, go to bed with the sun, Tue 18 Aug 2009, 16:44, Reply)