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When You Want To Help Someone With Anorexia Or Any Serious Emotional Problem

Submitted by Steve Ross on Sat, 03/10/2007 - 1:33pm.

The following information from ANRED (Anorexia Nervosa and Related Eating Disorders, Inc.) is vital for anyone whose friend or loved one is anorexic or has another eating disorder.

Please visit their site by following the link below for excellent information and resources. The only changes I have made to the following text is to add emphasis in two places.

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Treating Anorexia: If Not Eating Is So Cool, Why Am I So Sick?

Submitted by Steve Ross on Sat, 03/10/2007 - 1:09pm.

Anorexia is not like an ordinary disease. If you have, say, cancer, you know you are sick and you want to get well. You want treatment of some kind and you want it now!

Anorexics, even if they are literally starving to death, may not believe they have an illness and may not want any treatment. They may say they have good reasons for their extreme behavior and no one should interfere. There are even "pro-anorexia" web sites that offer tips on which foods to avoid and how to fight hunger! Here are some examples of posts, mostly from young women. While reading these, remember that binging/purging is part of anorexic behavior:

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