Actually they eat more often just so they can throw it up seen alot of times where they will order out 10 times a day spending more than $100 a day just to purge.
That's bulimia not anorexia. It's impossible to get this skinny by just throwing up. These women eat tiny tiny amounts of food and relish the control the think they have over their bodies. It's body dismorphia and they never think they are skinny enough and the longer they go with out food and water the more their body shuts down. When you don't have enough "fuel" you're body shuts down your less vital organs. It's very painful to watch.
No it isnt, it is a sickness behavior only if it is a result of an illness, AIDS for example, otherwise it is a psychological disorder that can be cured with among other things an intervention and therapy.
In fact most people with anorexia are just going through a phase that usually doesn't last more than a year or two and almost all of those people never do it again.
You cant cure an illness with therapy.
Anything you CHOOSE to do is not an illness i'm sorry, Anorexia is in the same class as alcoholism and substance abuse.
I guess you are going to tell me those are real illnesses too
Having an illness is just something people with these class of disorders tells themselves to feel sorry for themselves(picture deadbeat whos family disowned him talking about how its because of his alcoholism, while he has a bottle in his hand)
Someone with Tourettes has more validity of an illness than someone with anorexia.
People with REAL mental illness would kill to just be able to go therapy and walk out fine instead of having to live with it the rest of their lives
my neurons CHOOSE to give me seizures, so i guess i dont have an illness either. if you think that any type of addiction, or eating disorder is not a mental illness you are seriously delusional. Normal people don't ruin their families just to get a fix, or because they can't stop puking up their food, or they won't eat enough food to sustain their bodies, or because they won't put the alcohol down. Often times these illnesses are developed over time from something traumatic. Maybe you should fucking educate yourself before you come here looking stupid. You are comparable to the idiots who claim homosexuality is a choice as well. But hey, you did a real good job making yourself look ignorant. The things these people go through are not a joke, they are life threatening illnesses, and often times they do not seek help because they are scared or they don't know how or who to reach to. The thing about mental illness is most of the time, a lot of them don't realize they even HAVE a problem.
The way i see mental illness is that it's all in their minds. They see themselves in the mirror this way and think: "OMG! I gotta lose a few more pounds, i still see the fat!". They have to see for themselves how ridiculous they look but choose to destroy themselves... thats why i say i have no sympathies. Its all about being selfish and not caring about what they put themselves and their family through.
Going through a phase? Wow. You are truly blind to the world aren't you? These problems are life long battles that these people will struggle with, not one or two years. How do I know? My girlfriend is still struggling with anorexia, after 7 years.
MOST people go through it for 1-2 years and those people are the ones that get good therapy as well as family therapy
Anorexia IS 100% Curable.
Anyone who has been through therapy and who's family and loved ones have been through therapy and is still doing it needs to be living in a recovery center because there is a kink in the chain somewhere.
I'm not going to debate what's a disease and what isn't, Jeg, but it seems like you're pulling a lot of facts out of your ass. "Most people"? How is that even a debatable number - if you're going to make an argument at least bring some data. Second, by saying something is curable then by definition you are saying it's an illness of some sort, you can't cure what ain't broken. Finally - 100% curable? Nothing is 100% curable. If someone goes for therapy and still ends up starving to death, then I guess that person wasn't in the 100%.
Watch this I'm going to tell you the cure to the ILLNESS of alcoholism.......ready..........Dont Drink.....Get Therapy..........Stay away from anyone in your life that wont go through family therapy...Cured.
Her it goes for Anorexia........Eat.....Get Therapy..........Stay away from anyone in your life that wont go through family therapy...Cured.
Cancer....Dont have canc............oh wait that's a real illness
In cases where the person wont do it, the family must do it and deal with the fact that they may never be able to see this person again for the sake of them being better.
By therapy I dont mean 9 weeks ur cured, long term, and in some cases permanent and residential.
if it were that easy, the world would be perfect, but unfortunately that is not how it is at all. There is no cure all simple answer like that, once you are ADDICTED to something, whether it is a substance or behavior, it is NOT easy to drop it. Oh I am an alcoholic, haha let me just stop drinking. No. It does not work like that. You are fucking stupid. It is plain and simple. I can see others not willing to be rude, but you are just STUPID. Flat out stupid. People have lives to live and it is not anyone's responsibility to do anything, because families have NO control over their loved one, HENCE WHY IT IS A FUCKING PROBLEM. Jesus christ almighty, you are one dumbass motherfucker. You really should look up addiction and mental illnesses because I think you have one yourself. You are delusional if you think any addiction is as easy as one two three. With drugs..stopping cold turkey can KILL you. You're a fucking retard.
"People have lives to live and it is not anyone's responsibility to do anything"
If you love someone who is suffering there is NO WAY that this would be your feelings towards it and you would do everything in your power to get them to stop and if they dont stop and you've done everything you can do, YOU DO MORE. It isnt a perfect world, if it were there would be no idiot loved one ever saying, "there's nothing I can do"
Well no shit stopping could kill some people, hence what I said:
"By therapy I dont mean 9 weeks ur cured, long term, and in some cases permanent and residential."
Addiction exists as much as it does today because of people with the thinking behind your last statement.
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