yelps
02-21-2005, 10:35 PM
Children will eat non nutritive things, its called pica. Is pica a form of OCD ? I really need to know.
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mudhound
02-27-2005, 08:20 AM
I've never heard it called that. It could be a form of ocd. eating that is
loopyturtle
02-28-2005, 11:59 PM
A book I read quite a while back listed pica as a disorder possibly in a related spectrum to ocd. Can't remember what book it was, though. Sorry.
Adults can suffer from pica, as well.
--Loopy
Adults can suffer from pica, as well.
--Loopy
yelps
03-01-2005, 10:25 AM
I did some more research and pica is in the spectrum of ocd disorders. When I was a kid I ate dirt on occasion. My mom took me to the doctor and he said, maybe he is deficient in some mineral. That doctor was wrong of course. My mom knew something was wrong, but ocd is hard to understand.