It's not a self-induced disease. You don't wake up one morning, think you are fat, and decide to barf after you binge-eat because you are fat. Developing an eating disorder doesn't happen overnight, it takes years of low self-confidence and incidents that incite depression. A lot of women and men with eating disorders also suffer from depression and OCD, definitely not self induced diseases. When a young woman with an eating disorder looks in a mirror she doesn't see herself in the same way we see her. Eating disorders are very serious and always threaten the health of the person involved.
I can't understand why or how people think this illness is "self-induced". More often than not, an eating disorder - or any other self-harm/addictive problems - are the result of underlying mental illness. To say a person is "making it up" or "doing it to themselves" is to belittle the millions that suffer daily with diseases of the mind - that are, I am here to tell you and medicine & science are here to back me up - very *real*.No one accuses someone with cancer or diabetes of "doing it to themselves". Then why do we accuse those suffering with mental illness of such? Just because an illness is in the mind rather than the body makes it no less real or perilous.
Societal pressures can really be hazardous to your health. Peer pressure is present in all stages of life. Learning to love yourself is a must in a world that will work to tear you down.
lol I said survival of the fittest, but at least I feel bad for these people. Like watching an animal attack video, some helpless victim people mauled by a bear, but s**t it is nature, who am I to stop it.
kmac2580Oct 1, 2008
It's not a self-induced disease. You don't wake up one morning, think you are fat, and decide to barf after you binge-eat because you are fat. Developing an eating disorder doesn't happen overnight, it takes years of low self-confidence and incidents that incite depression. A lot of women and men with eating disorders also suffer from depression and OCD, definitely not self induced diseases. When a young woman with an eating disorder looks in a mirror she doesn't see herself in the same way we see her. Eating disorders are very serious and always threaten the health of the person involved.
skilla182Oct 1, 2008
From the Brian Cuban who's banned from digg? That Brian Cuban?
skatoolakiOct 1, 2008
I can't understand why or how people think this illness is "self-induced". More often than not, an eating disorder - or any other self-harm/addictive problems - are the result of underlying mental illness. To say a person is "making it up" or "doing it to themselves" is to belittle the millions that suffer daily with diseases of the mind - that are, I am here to tell you and medicine & science are here to back me up - very *real*.No one accuses someone with cancer or diabetes of "doing it to themselves". Then why do we accuse those suffering with mental illness of such? Just because an illness is in the mind rather than the body makes it no less real or perilous.
Closed AccountOct 1, 2008
Societal pressures can really be hazardous to your health. Peer pressure is present in all stages of life. Learning to love yourself is a must in a world that will work to tear you down.
cleric85Oct 1, 2008
lol I said survival of the fittest, but at least I feel bad for these people. Like watching an animal attack video, some helpless victim people mauled by a bear, but s**t it is nature, who am I to stop it.
miemiemiJan 22, 2009
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