A man who has had repeated bouts of depression cut off one of his own fingers, cooked it with some vegetables and ate it.
The bizarre case of "self-cannibalism" is the first known in New Zealand and one of only eight reported around the world.
South Island forensic psychiatrist Erik Monasterio and clinical psychologist Craig Prince reported it yesterday in the journal Australasian Psychiatry to alert colleagues to the rare behaviour.
Their patient, aged 28 at the time, was moderately depressed and had not consumed drugs or alcohol at the time of his extreme act in 2009.
He was assessed as having a "vulnerable personality structure".
"Mr X" would suffer episodes of low mood and sometimes think of suicide. He had been successfully treated with anti-depressant medication and received supportive psychotherapy. Once while depressed, he was assaulted by two men.
"He felt extreme anger and for the first time fantasised about not only killing his assailants, but of eating them too," the doctors' report says.
I'm pretty sure he had a Homer moment after this. Check NZ Herald for the full story.
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