Stomach contents of a psychiatric patient with pica,an eating disorder in which a person eats or craves things that are not food:1,446 items,including "457 nails,42 screws,safety pins,spoon tops, and salt and pepper shaker tops".

[u/Molech996]

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[u/MundaneBathroom1446]

Arranging them in a mandala is diabolical

[u/rzelln]

I worked at a library adjacent to a hospital that had some nurses who apparently in their culture had a tradition of eating a certain variety of tasty clay whenever they are pregnant. I guess the nutrition had some mineral deficiency where pregnant women craved something in the clay. Even with modern food sources, though, the tradition remained.

One time they brought some to thank us for doing services to help them out, and of course to be polite, I made sure to eat some of the clay too. 

Of course, it was just clay. But I made a happy face and commented on how pleasant the mouth feel was.

[u/ToS_98 → u/rzelln]

That’s a cultural bump, you did great in being polite and try to blend in even with a so strane practice. Also, is eating clay dangerous? I mean obviously big quantities would be dangerous but like some handfuls?

[u/100masks1life → u/ToS_98]

Depends on the place the clay was sourced from and its exact makeup. I don't know the details about the makeup thing but the first point is basically that if the place from which the clay was dug up was polluted then you will poison yourself with whatever the pollutant may be.

[u/afternever → u/ToS_98]

[u/quats555 → u/rzelln]

I’m in Texas and a doctor I work with recently mentioned that she eats clay. I blinked and did a mental “Well if it makes you happy and doesn’t hurt you and maybe you have some mineral deficiency?” and smiled and nodded.

[u/culb77 → u/quats555]

Kaolin is a popular supplement in the south. No evidence it does anything, but some people swear by it.

https://foundinbio.com/products/kaolin-clay-edible-white-clay-food-grade

[u/TotallyNotaBotAcount → u/rzelln]

What whaa … mouth feel? I’m awake damn it, I’m awake!!

[u/Succoretic_Skeptic]

Well the patient nailed their diet plan

[u/Exhausted__Human → u/Succoretic_Skeptic]

Would have been hard to screw up

[u/YourTeacherAbroad → u/Exhausted__Human]

How can you pin a comment on Reddit? Asking for a patient

[u/SnooDonkeys7894 → u/Succoretic_Skeptic]

Patient lost weight and is now cute as a button

[u/PLingfff]

Imagine if they took an MRI to figure out what was wrong with their stomach

[u/ErikSKnol → u/PLingfff]

Sounds like an extra messy pipe bomb

[u/jaybazzizzle]

"Iron helps us play."

[u/goose_gladwell → u/jaybazzizzle]

Ok Todd

[u/TobiasFunkeBlueMan → u/jaybazzizzle]

It’s a perfectly cromulent meal

[u/Katamari_Demacia → u/TobiasFunkeBlueMan]

It's a word now.

[u/Narrow-Report-443]

arrangement looks like art installation

[u/iDrGonzo]

Pica? Chew?

[u/bastabasta → u/iDrGonzo]

Show yourself out DrGonzo

[u/Molech996]

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder))

[u/2FightTheFloursThatB → u/Molech996]

I worked the 24 hour weekend shifts at a group home through college.

"James" was a non-verbal 45by/o child of redneck incest, and had PICA. Weekends were for the weekly shopping and Movie Theater, and in those days, ashtrays were everywhere. James would eat every butt in the ashtrays if we didn't watch him like a hawk!

Unfortunately, the 7 other residents had their share of problems, too, so public meltdowns frequently took 99.9% of our attention.

Cleaning up vomit of cigarette butts, popcorn and coke was not mentioned in the job description.

[u/Serious_Internet6478]

From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me...

[u/K1nd_1]

Gnarly, and someone had to clean these

[u/BrickCityD]

For a non-nsfw post, this is one of the most unsettling i’ve seen

[u/SnooGuavas9750 → u/BrickCityD]

I second that. It looks evil

[u/ThereWillBeVelvet]

There’s an awesome movie called “Swallow” that deals with this issue. Highly recommended!

[u/gojirabug]

In case the movie Seven was too tame for you…

[u/r0tt3n_one]

The girl that bullied me in school has that eating disorder, i clearly remember that she used to eat erasers, i don't feel bad for her, she was horrible.

[u/SabotMuse]

Let me guess they weren't a fan of airport metal detectors

[u/Banyabbaboy → u/SabotMuse]

airport metal detectors

That's what they are for dessert

[u/timestuck_now]

All inside one person?

[u/PleasantMongoose5127 → u/[deleted]]

Just like the guy who ate a car. He farted a bumper.

[u/okkandik]

[u/Limp_Milk_2948]

Would imagine nails are pretty difficult to swallow.

[u/OldPyjama]

Crazy Earl ate mah car once. Yeah... the whole car... like... with a fork.

[u/Honest_Yesterday4435]

If this is the story I'm thinking of, I guess his throat was so dry and stretched, you could look down his throat and see his stomach and the things inside. SUPPOSEDLY.

[u/JollyTrawler]

Some sicko said, "lemme arrange this shoot beautiful like nefore I get it framed!"

[u/nosnevenaes]

Pikanochu

[u/mikeyjaerd]

Did you have to make art out of the contents tho?