00:00 - Meet Patrice 00:56 - What is Pica? 02:10 - Patrice's husband discovers secret 03:36 - Patrice collects new supply 04:54 - How it all started
PICA is a rare condition which results in a compulsion to eat anything from paper to brick.
30 year old Patrice from South London is eating herself out of house and home … literally. For the last 15 years she has been devouring the walls of her and her grandparent’s home, eating a ton of plaster.
Her husband desperately wants her to stop and the experts think a cure could lie in addressing her past.
Clip from The Woman Who Ate A House, 2016. Content licensed from Mentorn Media. For any enquiries, please contact us at [email protected]
