What is your view on Anorexia Nervosa?
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I don't know why others do it. but my mother has this disease. It is a mental health disorder as well as an eating disorder. Not only does the person who has this order go through it but everyone close to the person does too. It effects everyone. I have two daughters who see their grandmother going through this. One doesn't want to eat too much because she doesn't want to get fat.. which is a genetic problem in my family.. and I have one who over eats because she doesn't want to be as thin as her grandmother. In my own opinion, this is a sickness.. that needs to be brought out more so that more people can avoid this and be aware of it.
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Both. They are "sick" in the sense that they see themselves as fat. The attention part I think is because they want to be recognized as thin. But people do not starve themselves just for attention. They have underlying reasons that drive them to hurt themselves that way. Sometimes it is a control issue, or simply the desire to look like the women hyped in the media.
People that are truly anorexic are sick. There are some "copycats", though, that look for attention. One could argue that the copycats wanting attention for an ED are sick also, I guess. i mean different people do it for different reasons but the majority of them have an illness.
Its sad. When a majority of the worlds population does not have enough food to eat and die of hunger because they do not have the financial resources.
People with Anorexia Nervosa should check with a doctor and then visit some of these poor countries and see what malnutrition does to the body. It is a legtimate metal illness that could be fatal. It needs to be treated by a combination of medical doctors and psychiatrists because eventually the psychiatric disorder turns into a medical disorder in that they're bodies begin to eat muscle when it runs out of stored fat and eventually if you have no muscle and fat you die, so medical doctors need to keep them alive while psychiatrists treat the under lying self-essteem and error in thinking.
It's no surprise this diease only occurs in well developed societies where food is abundent and body image becomes important.
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