PICA - Compulsive Craving/Consumption of Objects Not Intended to be Consumed

[quintessentone]

My mum told me that, as a toddler, late 1960s, I chewed through the top rail of my crib, which was wooden and painted white.

A few years later, when I was tall enough to reach the window sill, again, wooden and white paint, I chewed a four-inch half crescent out of it.

I admit to having eaten pencils, toothpicks, chewed on wood and I love metal, but that I have only licked, never eaten.

Chewing gum just doesn’t do it for me, needs to be more ligneous, more like liquorice root. 

Oh, and BIC pen caps, the blue ones are the best.

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It's interesting you mention eating plastic, like the BIC pen caps as I used to chew them too and if we think about sea creatures eating plastic, and my cat wanting to chew plastic, can we assume we as creatures of Earth have a natural affinity to want to eat plastic, which btw, is made up of fossil fuels, which is made up of dead plant and animal matter.

[quintessentone]

 

I wonder if this has anything to do with the rising autism rates. Testing and identification has gotten better over the years, but micro plastics in  the brain can't be good.

Well since it is reported that microplastics do not biodegrade isn't it rational to think that microplastics in the brain would disrupt or prevent neural signals to go the way they should, or be diverted. I really don't know, does anyone really? I think what is needed are specific neuroscientific studies to look directly at this problem.

[andy06shake]

My mum told me that, as a toddler, late 1960s, I chewed through the top rail of my crib, which was wooden and painted white.

A few years later, when I was tall enough to reach the window sill, again, wooden and white paint, I chewed a four-inch half crescent out of it.

I admit to having eaten pencils, toothpicks, chewed on wood and I love metal, but that I have only licked, never eaten.

Chewing gum just doesn’t do it for me, needs to be more ligneous, more like liquorice root. 

Oh, and BIC pen caps, the blue ones are the best.

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Im 50 and can't stop biting my nails if that counts.

Not all the time, but if i think they are too long.

Nail clipper frighten me. 

[Encia22]

try electrical tape

Can't stand the glue, sorry. But, plastic wall plugs aren't bad... when I'm in a masochistic mood.

[quintessentone]

Can't stand the glue, sorry. But, plastic wall plugs aren't bad... when I'm in a masochistic mood.

Which colour is best; white, yellow or black? (LOOOOLLL)

[Encia22]

It's interesting you mention eating plastic, like the BIC pen caps as I used to chew them too and if we think about sea creatures eating plastic, and my cat wanting to chew plastic, can we assume we as creatures of Earth have a natural affinity to want to eat plastic, which btw, is made up of fossil fuels, which is made up of dead plant and animal matter.

Yeah, that could be it, a metamorphosis of natural to synthetic; and we somehow know instinctively that it all originated from mother nature in one way or another. 

As for the plastic, I think it’s just our natural instinct to chew… at least for me it is.

[quintessentone]

Yeah, that could be it, a metamorphosis of natural to synthetic; and we somehow know instinctively that it all originated from mother nature in one way or another. 

As for the plastic, I think it’s just our natural instinct to chew… at least for me it is.

Yes, could be chewing is a necessity for strong teeth and jaw and is a built in bodily mechanism. (?) I wonder if teeth grinding falls along those same lines (?)

[quintessentone]

Did anyone ever have the desire to go further when eating meat, such as chicken wings, to chew the bones as well and eat the marrow?

[Encia22]

Which colour is best; white, yellow or black? (LOOOOLLL)

None of the above... grey/gray, reminds me of molding clay or Play-doh or something similar that we had in the 70s and came in a plastic egg, for which I can't remember the name, but I chewed on a ton of the stuff.

 

[Encia22]

Did anyone ever have the desire to go further when eating meat, such as chicken wings, to chew the bones as well and eat the marrow?

Absolutely, the rib cage is my favourite. And, bone marrow, ossobuco is a delicacy where I am.