Teenage girl addicted to soap (O_o)

she is addicted to soap - yes she is addicted on eating soap.
Calgary, Alberta
February 18, 2011 1:50am CST
The teenage girl in the picture below is addicted to soap, I'm not talking about soap operas, When i mean soap, I'm talking about detergent soap, bathing soap, liquid soap and more house hold cleaning products and cosmetics. Her Parents and some doctors are already concerned with her rare medical condition. She is a registered nurse and she knows the dangers of her addiction but she cant control her self. I dont know how she develop such weird cravings: Source: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1354417/Tempestt-Henderson-19-consumes-bars-soap-week.html
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@laniekins (4579)
• Philippines
18 Feb 11
Holy cow, isn't soap are poisonous when digested? Weird cravings! I hope when she gets pregnant, she won't that weird craving.
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• Calgary, Alberta
18 Feb 11
she is a teenager so i think getting pregnant is the last of her priority but for sure someday she will so its going to be complicated when the time comes.
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@mspitot (3824)
• Philippines
18 Feb 11
I think that is so crazy! That is poisonous!
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@mspitot (3824)
• Philippines
19 Feb 11
That is really crazy. She needs medical attention cause the strong smell of detergent powders make me sneeze. How can she eat them.
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• Calgary, Alberta
19 Feb 11
her immunity system seemed to be immuned from some toxic chemicals.
• Calgary, Alberta
21 Feb 11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TN1_EgYdfU the girl on that video also have a very bizaare addiction.
@cerebellum (3863)
• United States
20 Feb 11
Of all the things to be addicted to that is one of the strangest. I kept wondering as I read the article how you would get started eating soap? I don't think they should have taken all those pictures. She has a serious problem, and the pictures seem to make light of it.
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• Calgary, Alberta
21 Feb 11
She looks like she is really enjoying it and she even post pictures of herr eating it with delight its like she is not ashamed of her condition, I dont know if tis a good thing though.
@topffer (42156)
• France
18 Feb 11
Hello Albert, This poor girl is sick, there is no doubt about this, but I am disgusted by the photos in this article. How could she agree to pose in front of a plate full of soap and a glass full of washing powder ? Eating soap ? Eating washing powder ? If there is something more wrong than her sickness here, it is the stupidity of the photographer and of the newspaper, and, somewhere, their amorality ! I believe that this family need money and that these photos have been paid, and it is an interesting debate : until what point would you go to earn some money : here the continuous line has been crossed.
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• Calgary, Alberta
18 Feb 11
she said it started when she dipped her finger in detergent powder and when she licked the soap suds in her body.
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• Calgary, Alberta
19 Feb 11
My addiction well, duh.....I'm a computer addict its so obvious. My laptop and I were inseperable.
@Masihi (4413)
• Canada
18 Feb 11
I must admit that is rather odd, but then again, the brain is a very complex organ. I'm very glad she managed to reach out for help, though, it does take a lot for a girl to reach out like that. I imagine she felt embarrassed about it, too.
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@Masihi (4413)
• Canada
18 Feb 11
Ok I found a wiki article on PICA, and it does mention soap as one of the cravings. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pica_(disorder)
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• Calgary, Alberta
19 Feb 11
I remember on Tv there is this guy who eats broken glass and nails but his stomach can digest them. its really creepy to have a disorder like that but for sure they need understanding.
• Philippines
1 Mar 11
I think she has this mental disorder called pica. It's a craving for inedible stuff. Some even consume nails and other very dangerous objects.
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• Calgary, Alberta
10 Mar 11
we were lucky that we dont have such disorder, in youtube, I saw a woman with the same disorder and she eats soap too. she said she is abused by some man in her childhood and she feels dirty inside and she only feels clean when she is ingesting soap.
@Porcospino (31366)
• Denmark
18 Feb 11
I have about people who eat other kinds of things like hair, soil or chalk, but I have never heard about someone who eat soap. I hope that she will get the right kind of treatment and that she will be able to overcome her unusual addiction. The condition is called pica, but I never really understood what causes some people to eat things that most of us would never eat. When I was at nursing school I learned a little about this illness and some of the things that people eat are pretty disgusting. We heard about one person who drank his own urine because of this illness
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• Calgary, Alberta
19 Feb 11
I wonder what drivers her to have such disorder, I can understand people who eats exotic foods (I do eat exotic foods) but I cant understand people who eats non edible and very poisonous chemicals. she must need help from professionals for sure.
@srganesh (6340)
• India
19 Feb 11
Very dangerous addiction! How comes she started this craving for all kinds of soaps? Well, this world see some people like this quite often. I have even heard of a person eating sand and another eating waste tube lights and pieces of glasses too. Heaven's sake they can digest them too.
• Calgary, Alberta
19 Feb 11
she said it started when she accidentally licked the soap suds on her face while bathing, she kinda liked the taste out of a sudden and she got more curious when she saw soap detergent powder, she dipped her finger there and after that she got hooked up with it. Maybe she also loves the smell and that triggers her to like eating it. there must be something wrong with her tastebuds.
• United States
19 Feb 11
I did hear about this addiction on The Doctors Show and could not get over it either. I can not understand how they can stand the taste let alone to swallow it. I also saw during the show a women was addicted to eating toilet paper, how she manages to chew that and swallow that is beyond me. Wow, it is apparently an obsessive behavior which they learn to phase out the taste. Whoa!
• Calgary, Alberta
19 Feb 11
I dont know what pushes a person to do such thing, But she said the addiction happened by accident, It all started with curiosity and her curiosity kinda gets her far to this addiction.
• United States
18 Feb 11
that doesn't surprise me in the slightest, it's not as odd as other things I've seen on my strange addiction. I've seen people who had odd addictions like that even before that new show. On the Tyra Show she used to have people who eat baby powder and things like that.
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• Calgary, Alberta
19 Feb 11
to think of it she is a nurse so for sure she knows what she is doing is harmful for her health because she have a medical background for crying out loud.
@sexyice (873)
• Latvia
18 Feb 11
Wow, crazy girl :D She are very beautiful, but eat soap... She is stupid, because I like my soap smell,but therefore I do not eat them. She just eat - all, crazy, crazy crazy :D
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• Calgary, Alberta
18 Feb 11
She have develop a rare psychological disorder or a certain chemical from those soaps and detergents makes her addicted. She have a strong immune system for not being poison though.
18 Feb 11
That is so bizarre! I've never heard of people becoming addicted to things like soap!
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• Calgary, Alberta
19 Feb 11
her internal organs must be clean when she drinks water because they got rinsed.