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Other People’s Lives

I Can't Stop Eating Rocks

Other People’s Lives

Audioboom

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2020

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

We speak with a woman who has a condition called pica, which causes her to eat rocks, chalk, and other items that are not food. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I probably had two or three rocks a day and then one stick of chalk or charcoal at night

0:08.8

and then one in the afternoon.

0:19.3

Welcome back to other people's lives.

0:20.3

I'm Joe Sanagato.

0:21.3

I'm Greg Dybeck.

0:23.2

Just want to give a quick shout out to our patrons who are supporting the show at patreon.com

0:27.1

slash opl show where you can get follow ups with our previous guests and extra bonus

0:32.6

episodes on a monthly basis.

0:35.8

Oh yeah.

0:37.0

So today we are talking about pica.

0:40.1

So pica is an eating disorder.

0:43.5

The kind of textbook definition I have of it is it's an eating disorder that involves eating

0:48.0

items that are not typically thought of as food and that do not contain significant nutritional

0:53.7

value.

0:54.7

It's like hair, dirt and paint chips were listed in this definition.

1:00.2

So we've got our guests with us today.

1:02.4

Thanks for being on.

1:03.7

Yeah, thank you.

1:05.9

So can you just describe how this affects you and what pica looks like in your everyday

1:12.0

life?

1:13.0

Yeah.

1:14.0

So I might pica shows itself in the form of rocks mostly and then sort of chalk is

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