While hospitalizations for eating disorders are down overall, one category is rising at an alarming rate, says the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. From 1999 to 2009, hospitalizations for ...
Remember in school or college, a lot was often talked about that one child or those few children who had the unusual habit of relishing bricks, chalks, or smelling superglue, etc.? This is neither a ...
Our skin is often covered with tiny imperfections—blemishes, moles, cuts and spots that we're all guilty of picking at from time to time. Consider the temptation of that bulbous yellow head of a spot ...
Our skin is often covered with tiny imperfections—blemishes, moles, cuts and spots that we're all guilty of picking at from time to time. Consider the temptation of that bulbous yellow head of a spot ...
You may have seen someone chewing chalk, eating clay, or even craving ash, and wondered why they’d engage in such behaviour. While these actions may seem strange or unsettling, for some individuals, ...
Willis prescribed a vomit and ordered his patient to keep to a ‘strict diet’, forgoing her strange cravings. The definition ...