The “Break it Down” Blog

Did you just vomit? I almost did… I was chewing a piece of watermelon gum when I saw this and almost vomited goddamn hell right out of my mouth.

What you see above, is a hairball. The result of “years of eating her own hair” to be exact… that puppy is a 10lbs ball of hair that completely filled the woman’s stomach, to the point that she had years of stomach pain, vomiting and lost 40lbs (woot! diet-crazy-2008!)

After her surgery to remove the ball of hair, she stopped eating her hair and was back to normal in a year. That’s all good and well, but for some reason, one part of this story stuck with me and just ground me the wrong way, specifically this part:

“On questioning, the patient stated that she had had a habit of eating her hair for many years — a condition called trichophagia,” they wrote.

No… no… no…. it’s not a condition called <insert fancy latin name>, it’s called “eating your own goddamn hair”. Just because something happens, doesn’t mean it’s suddenly a condition <hand-waving> that requires a name to define it somewhere in a book that someone needs a prescription for and 10 years of therapy for to find out why… just stop eating your f-ing hair.