Am I sick?? I eat dry wall

[kaka3845]

Hello, I have a very strange eating habit for about 3 years and I would like to stop it. I eat dry wall. It started one day when I had seen a crack in the wall in my house, I found a piece of wall stone and I tried it from curiosity. Since that day I can’t stop eating it. My father pulled up the dry wall many times but I didn’t change my eating habit and I don’t know what to do about it. I need your professional help because it’s getting out of normal. My parents don’t understand me and keep yelling at me every time I’m doing this, I understand them because I agree that it’s abnormal, I just can’t control myself. Please help me, I really wanna change this thing. I’m counting on your help, bye everyone.

 

[Madison30]

This is pica, I’ve heard about it, one of my friend also had it. he didn’t ate dry wall but he liked to eat fabric. Pica is the persistent craving of eating nonfood things and if you’re going to seek some help you can be helped but if you’ll keep it as a secret then you can have a bad time in the near future. That’s because your activity can cause you to have some health problems. You should tell yourself that dry wall is definitely not to eat and each time you have this craving to do something, like eating normal food or something. Better go to a specialist and he might help you better. But the dry wall might contain possible toxins and health threatening things. In my opinion this is a really dangerous habit that you should consider to stop. Understanding that something is wrong and asking for a solution on the forum is a step of stopping it but a professional medical person would be a lot more useful! You and I have no idea what you can find in that dry wall but I’m sure that even if you don’t have any health issues now, you’ll be able to notice them later if you continue like that. The person who I knew eating fabric has done the same thing and he’s now fine. He knew that fabric isn’t food but there was that something that made him in love with it. later he started to notice some health problems that was told by the doc that it was caused by that fabric he was constantly eating. He received some help and he’s fine now. this doesn’t mean that you would have to eat only few dry wall, this means that you would have to fully stop eating it. for good, do something about that until it’s not too late.