Anorexia the disease

[Aractus]

[azheathen]

[Faith No More]

I'm glad the title clarified that we are talking about anorexia the disease, because people might have thought this was about anorexia the dessert topping.

[Sejanus]

I'm glad the title clarified that we are talking about anorexia the disease, because people might have thought this was about anorexia the dessert topping.

Lol.

[Aractus]

I'm glad the title clarified that we are talking about anorexia the disease, because people might have thought this was about anorexia the dessert topping.

Well a lot of people don't really understand why it's a disease. For instance, I do not consider alcoholism a disease - I consider that an addiction (like any other drug addiction) - but there's no question in my mind that Anorexia Nervosa is a very, very serious mental illness that often results in death.

[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.

[downbeatplumb]

She was just as addicted to making herself ghastly skinny as she was to beer.

Beer does not help to make you skinny. As I know to my cost.

[Aractus]

Yep, alcohol has a lot of calories.

@Ryantology - sorry to hear about your mum. There is a difference though, that difference being that substance abuse is not universally regarded as a disease among health professionals, whereas Anorexia Nervosa is.

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