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Anorexics are not the only ones that see their behaviors as unproblematic sometimes, I think, society focuses on the surface and also is largely ignorant to how profoundly deep and distorted those thoughts can become. I weep when I realise how many other women starve themselves like meĭid you see that terrible special on the BBC last year when they took two women and had them "try" eating disorders for two weeks, deliberately doing food restriction and overexercise, just to make a one hour show? This is the reciprocal of the case you're discussing, but it reminded me of it. It scares me to think of how many people guiding and guarding that industry are actually ill.įatten me up! What happened when former anorexic Liz Jones had to eat normally for three weeks I want her to be relieved of her post and brought to hospital.Īnd I don't want this person to be discussing or guiding fashion. I want no one to be able to mistake what she is describing for a desire to be thin. She has an illness - but what's OUR excuse? I want society to step up and get her help as we would if she was wandering in the street with a head wound. Reading her description of her "experiment" in eating normally - and then going back - I feel helpless and horrified. I am reading with amazement the fashion columnist Liz Jones speaking with such insight and compassion for others but seemingly entirely unconscious of what seems to be a very serious mental illness driving her behaviors and thoughts. This anosognosia is dangerous on many levels, but frightening when it guides policies or public opinion. This is not a choice or conscious denial - it is a brain condition. Patients with anorexia are often "anosognosic" - they truly do not feel ill and they experience their own behaviors and thoughts as normal. It is hard to believe that what we are seeing are symptoms and not free will. This even confuses many therapists, especially those unfamiliar with eating disorders. This confuses loved ones, as we expect all abilities to thrive or fail in tandem. Patients who are floridly ill can remain quite lucid and intellectually engaged on topics outside food/body. Perhaps the most confusing thing about anorexia is that the patient can function so well in other areas of life: school and work, for example.