Addiction to chewing toilet paper is a thing.

[BS555]

WTF.

https://www.google.com/search?q=addicted to chewing toilet paper

There are numerous news articles, blog posts, and forum posts on this, and even a woman who had a video story done on her regarding it.

How does one begin to get addicted to chewing and (apparently in some cases) eating toilet paper? I know about "pica," but something like chewing ice seems a lot more logical.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder)

These people are even snobby with their brands.

My preference is Angel Soft double sheets. For whatever reason, I love the way it smells and tastes. I don't care for Charmin but if nothing else is around I will eat that too.

 

[Tig]

As long as it isn't used TP. A man has to have standards, ya know. :snooty:

 

[micwalt]

I saw a thing on TV about a woman who was addicted to eating dryer sheets too.
What a world!

 

[tiger roach]

TP - the healthy snack that's naturally low in calories. Now gluten free!

 

[Tralfaz]

If they time their bowel movements right they never have to wipe.

 

[Tig]

If they time their bowel movements right they never have to wipe.

/thread

 

[Guitar Heel]

there are also people that eat their pets fur. wtf.

 

[OGG]

No weird compulsion will ever seem more funny and bizarre to me than the guy I saw on TV who freaked the fuck out every time he saw a Chevy El Camino.

But I still don't know how he reacts to seeing a Ford Ranchero.

The suspense is killing me.

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[Peeker]

Gal I knew years ago used to eat straws, and those plastic rings that hold a 6pk together.

 

[jelloman]

This world sucks...

 

[Gary Blanchard]

Not an addiction I have treated as yet, but should add it to my website...

 

[PunkKitty]

There are worse things than eating toilet paper.

Pica is the consumption of substances with no significant nutritive value such as earth or ice.[1] Subtypes are characterized by the substance eaten for example:

• Amylophagia (consumption of starch)
• Coprophagy (consumption of feces)
• Geophagy (consumption of soil, clay, or chalk)
• Hyalophagia (consumption of glass)
• Consumption of dust or sand has been reported among iron-deficient patients.
• Lithophagia (a subset of geophagia, consumption of pebbles or rocks)[6]
• Mucophagia (consumption of mucus)
• Odowa (soft stones eaten by pregnant women in Kenya)[7]
• Consumption of paint.
• Pagophagia (pathological consumption of ice)
• Self-cannibalism (rare condition where body parts may be consumed; see also Lesch-Nyhan syndrome)
• Trichophagia (consumption of hair or wool)
• Urophagia (consumption of urine)
• Xylophagia (consumption of wood or paper)

 

[BS555]

Speaking of ice chewing:

There's an entire forum dedicated to the habit. They discuss types of ice and the best places to go to get it.

http://www.icechewing.com/

 

[Gary Blanchard]

Speaking of ice chewing:

There's an entire forum dedicated to the habit. They discuss types of ice and the best places to go to get it.

http://www.icechewing.com/

Locally produced organic is the best...

 

[OGG]

Locally produced organic is the best...

I hear it is best enjoyed while rollin' in your five point oh

 

[Kerouac]

No weird compulsion will ever seem more funny and bizarre to me than the guy I saw on TV who freaked the fuck out every time he saw a Chevy El Camino.

But I still don't know how he reacts to seeing a Ford Ranchero.

The suspense is killing me.

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[Tig]

Locally produced organic is the best...

As long as it is free range ice, you bet.

So the asshole that sits across from me eating his buggers all fucking day can be diagnosed with Mucophagia (consumption of mucus)?
He's still the "booger man" anyway you slice it.
:chow2:

 

[GilmourD]

I saw a thing on TV about a woman who was addicted to eating dryer sheets too.
What a world!

My wife would probably like if I did that. My farts wouldn't be so wretched.

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[Elias Graves]

No weird compulsion will ever seem more funny and bizarre to me than the guy I saw on TV who freaked the fuck out every time he saw a Chevy El Camino.

But I still don't know how he reacts to seeing a Ford Ranchero.

The suspense is killing me.

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Who can really blame him?

 

[Elias Graves]

A. WTF?
B. Who goes on tv for that shit?
C. Who the fuck taunts people with weird phobias?

That was just fucked up all the way. A parody?