Anorexia the disease

[Ryantology]

My mom battled anorexia and bulimia for many years, in large part the result of my grandmother destroying her sense of self-worth as a female through her formative years by making it known to her often that she felt that my mother was inferior to her male siblings.

It's not really fundamentally different from alcoholism (which my mom also battled just as hard). She was just as addicted to making herself ghastly skinny as she was to beer.

Addictive tendencies are a form of mental illness.