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Elgenzay@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• ech@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  It’s almost certainly an extreme case of Pica, accumulated over an extended period of time.

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  • sp3tr4l@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Either that or he was convinced he was some kind of magical guru godman, impressing people and gaining a following with ‘impossible’ feats that he can perform thanks to his spiritual enlightenment.

    That’s as common, if not more common than preachers in America that run prosperity gospel scams, or believe that they are modern day prophets, talking directly to or for God, or both.

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    • dragonfucker@lemmy.nz ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      You can meet lots of gods on Discord if you know the cool servers.

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      • reinei@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        But all of those are so complex!

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  • Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Nope, bro literally ate them

    nypost.com/…/doctors-remove-600-nails-from-mans-s…

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    • shalafi@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Uh, that’s what Pica is, eating stuff that’s not food.

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    • ech@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Yes, that’s what people with Poca do.

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    • Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Obviously you commented a refutation without understanding what they said, and didn’t bother to type the word in Google, but I’m curious what you thought they said. Did you think they were saying they grew nails in their stomach or something? Obviously they ate them. How else would you think they could be there?

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      • psud@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Pica is the medical term for eating things that aren’t food. Nails, rocks, dirt.

        Pica seems a reasonable assumption

        The alternative is that he ate them as a performance, but he must have performed a lot

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