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.
The man was suffering from schizophrenia and had swallowed the nails over a period of time.
Anyone who claims they can talk to or for God, or believes they have magical superpowers is schizophrenic in my book, but if you’re able to make money doing it, well then that’s fine, because it doesn’t harm your ability to participate in society and thus isn’t a mental disorder.
Hooray for basing mental health conditions and healthcare on how they impact your economic productivity!
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?
It’s almost certainly an extreme case of Pica, accumulated over an extended period of time.
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.
EDIT: Ah, schizophrenic.
https://www.indiatoday.in/fyi/story/west-bengal-man-swallows-nails-doctors-use-magnets-during-surgery-1078182-2017-11-01
Anyone who claims they can talk to or for God, or believes they have magical superpowers is schizophrenic in my book, but if you’re able to make money doing it, well then that’s fine, because it doesn’t harm your ability to participate in society and thus isn’t a mental disorder.
Hooray for basing mental health conditions and healthcare on how they impact your economic productivity!
You can meet lots of gods on Discord if you know the cool servers.
But all of those are so complex!
Uh, that’s what Pica is, eating stuff that’s not food.
Yes, that’s what people with Pica do.
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?
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
Is it necessary irony that a person saying someone doesn’t know what they’re doing will also show a knowledge deficient?
I think you didn’t see what I replied to. The comment, which is now gone, implied the person above said they didn’t eat it.
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