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I'm 20 Years old female I used to ate more slate pencil from 6 years I was addicted to slate pencils. I want to stop this habit permanently. Tell some solution one doctor told me it is bcz of lack of calcium and multivitamin. But how can I gain calcium and multivitamin to stop this habit permanently. If one day I stop to eat slate pencil. I feel more uncomfortable. And from 6 years I was ated so I have a fear is there any problem it will create to my body. So kindly give me a permanent and perfect solution for this habit doctor. Thanking you.
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Pica is a psychological disorder characterized by an appetite for substances that are largely non-nutritive, such as ice (pagophagia); hair (trichophagia); paper (xylophagia); drywall or paint; metal (metallophagia); stones (lithophagia) or soil (geophagia); glass (hyalophagia); feces (coprophagia); and chalk. Please consult a psychologist.
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