Eating Disorders

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It may be that by reducing their sexual drive through starvation, patients can temporarily resolve their sexual conflicts” (go here).

Anorexics aren’t always in their teens or older.

According to a Newsweek article, Fighting Anorexia: No One to Blame, “Researchers, clinicians and mental-health specialists say they're seeing the age of their youngest anorexia patients decline to 9 from 13” (go here).

Then how do genetics play a role?

The author, Peg Tyre found that, Doctors now compare anorexia to alcoholism and depression, potentially fatal diseases that may be set off by environmental factors such as stress or trauma, but have their roots in a complex combination of genes and brain chemistry.

In other words, many kids are affected by pressure-cooker school environments and a culture of thinness promoted by magazines and music videos, but most of them don't secretly scrape their dinner into the garbage.

As I continued reading, I concluded that the scariest symptom of anorexia is that Anorexics are often delusional.

They can be weak with hunger while they describe physical sensations of overfullness that make it physically uncomfortable for them to swallow.

They hear admonishing voices in their heads when they do manage to choke down a few morsels.

They exercise compulsively, and even when they can ...

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