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I found this article online, and I must say...
What no sane individual would consider to be beautiful has become a goal for many women and girls, and a bountiful source of income for psychologists. Maybe it is a testimony to the new culture of death and self-destruction, but for many it is perhaps nothing other than an addiction to pain.
Many of these women cannot even sit anymore without feeling intense pain where their hip bones stick through the parody of what once used to be their buttocks. However, at great costs to society and to their extended and immediate families, these women's chosen lifestyle drives them to pursue the achievement of what they see as an ideal to be obtained even if they have to pay for it with their lives. What normal humans consider macabre, these women strive to acquire: their vision of today's "ideal" female body - a living skeleton.
Nothing much helps to "cure" these women. Why should it? Anorexia nervosa is the lifestyle of their choice! They believe in all earnest that nothing is wrong with them. Starving themselves liberates them, even if they don't know from what. Some people may think that perhaps it is the gamble with death that makes them do it, but that can't be it, because the human body is so resilient that death hardly ever occurs as a consequence of anorexia nervosa.
That's the beginning of the article.
Bull. Shit. Anorexia is not a choice that someone makes- if you told them to eat a sandwhich, they could no more eat it than you or I could eat a shoe. No one chooses anorexia, just as no one chooses to have cancer.
Anorexia - as all eating disorders - is a complex disease. There's not one single, simple cause, although new research has revealed that anorexia and bulimia are inherited conditions - one needs to have a genetic predisposition for them. So-called environmental factors can also trigger, and worsen, the disease: our society's obsession with thinness, puberty, dieting, going away to college, a traumatic world event or a more personal one, like a breakup.
No one chooses to be sick. And if they do, they are sicker than you think and need help, not to be mocked alongside of today's society.
Dumb bitch.
What no sane individual would consider to be beautiful has become a goal for many women and girls, and a bountiful source of income for psychologists. Maybe it is a testimony to the new culture of death and self-destruction, but for many it is perhaps nothing other than an addiction to pain.
Many of these women cannot even sit anymore without feeling intense pain where their hip bones stick through the parody of what once used to be their buttocks. However, at great costs to society and to their extended and immediate families, these women's chosen lifestyle drives them to pursue the achievement of what they see as an ideal to be obtained even if they have to pay for it with their lives. What normal humans consider macabre, these women strive to acquire: their vision of today's "ideal" female body - a living skeleton.
Nothing much helps to "cure" these women. Why should it? Anorexia nervosa is the lifestyle of their choice! They believe in all earnest that nothing is wrong with them. Starving themselves liberates them, even if they don't know from what. Some people may think that perhaps it is the gamble with death that makes them do it, but that can't be it, because the human body is so resilient that death hardly ever occurs as a consequence of anorexia nervosa.
That's the beginning of the article.
Bull. Shit. Anorexia is not a choice that someone makes- if you told them to eat a sandwhich, they could no more eat it than you or I could eat a shoe. No one chooses anorexia, just as no one chooses to have cancer.
Anorexia - as all eating disorders - is a complex disease. There's not one single, simple cause, although new research has revealed that anorexia and bulimia are inherited conditions - one needs to have a genetic predisposition for them. So-called environmental factors can also trigger, and worsen, the disease: our society's obsession with thinness, puberty, dieting, going away to college, a traumatic world event or a more personal one, like a breakup.
No one chooses to be sick. And if they do, they are sicker than you think and need help, not to be mocked alongside of today's society.
Dumb bitch.