ldg1087
04-28-2004, 06:07 PM
i am wondering about a mental disorder i heard about awhile ago that interested me but i forgot the the name. The disorder causes you to drink everything, including non-drinkable items such as perfume, paint thinner and paint. It is commonly associated with dissacciotive indentity disorder. The people with this disorder can gain massive amounts of waterweight in just a day and when institutionalized they have to be weighed three times a day. If anyone can tell you the name of this disorder that would just be great.
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franjava22
04-28-2004, 10:39 PM
I know that eating unedible things is called PICA. I don't know if the disorders are the same or related at all. I'll check out a PICA web-site and post again if I find anything.
franjava22
04-28-2004, 10:55 PM
Me again. :wave: I went on a couple sites real quick and it doesn't look like we're talking about PICA. They said nothing about drinking stuff or disassociative identity disorder. It's all about eating strange stuff. Anyone else...?
spreeville
04-29-2004, 04:06 PM
I quickly scanned through my DSM-IV and could not find such a thing. Who knows, I may have missed it.
Even I haven't heard of this. If it is associated with DID, there may be reasons why. Those who shows symptoms of DID may have urges and certain behaviors that they use if in an agitated or stressed state or a dissociative episode. Kind of like how some people under stress will use alcohol to deal with stress and so on, the difference with people who have DID is simply perception. Also, those with DID don't necessarily always live in reality, therefore, along with another personality, they may hallucinate, which can bring on such behaviors.
Besides that, I don't know the name of a specific disorder with those symptoms. It sounds to me to be some kind of compulsive behavior.
Even I haven't heard of this. If it is associated with DID, there may be reasons why. Those who shows symptoms of DID may have urges and certain behaviors that they use if in an agitated or stressed state or a dissociative episode. Kind of like how some people under stress will use alcohol to deal with stress and so on, the difference with people who have DID is simply perception. Also, those with DID don't necessarily always live in reality, therefore, along with another personality, they may hallucinate, which can bring on such behaviors.
Besides that, I don't know the name of a specific disorder with those symptoms. It sounds to me to be some kind of compulsive behavior.