- Joined
- Jul 10, 2017
Because it’s an inability to see reality. A person with body dysmorphia can claim their nose is MASSIVE, yet shown the same nose on another person, say it’s not that bad. Anorexics don’t have an objective vision of what they or anyone else looks like, it’s distorted and heavily skewed in favour of berating themselves.You're contradicting yourself. If you don't care that a person is obese, why are you afraid of being their size and consider it a flaw?
Anorexia is not a true disease, like schizophrenia or wu-flu. It is a set of maladaptive behavioral patterns that are centered around a set of thoughts and beliefs. That's why the most successful treatment for it is CBT and other behavioral therapy that focus on changing those thought patterns and beliefs. A lot of anorexics will claim they don't care about others being fat, but they are either lying to look better, or lying to themselves, because not disliking fat is antithetical to the disordered thinking that is controlling their lives.
Yeah, anorexics are deathly afraid of themselves getting fat and hate the idea of it, but my point was more that they’re not constantly noting every fat woman they cross paths with...their obsession is with their own flaws, not others’.
But you’re totally right, that way of thinking IS a contradiction, because the entire thought process of an anorexic is illogical and contradictory. There are anorexics convinced that a single cracker, if eaten, can cause them to show a one pound weight gain on the scale next day. Somehow. It’s not a condition where logic and reason exist.
But yeah as others have said the ana-boards are filled with people bolstering their own belief system by shitting on “whales.” But those are just the most visible, most invested in the “lifestyle” people. I guess my point is that the majority of anorexics are suffering in a lonely prison of their own minds, not feeling popular-girl smug, and I don’t think Eugenia feels that way either, or at least not often.
As for anorexics baking and cooking constantly to feed family and co-workers to “fatten them up”... anorexics can often get obsessed with cooking for others because it’s a way of interacting with food without actually EATING it. It’s a “safe” way to interact with the thing you’re always obsessing over, without actually ingesting any dangerous calories.
It’s also a common dodge to get people off your back and disprove your anorexia. “How can I be an anorexic, mum? I LOVE food, I’m always cooking!” Anorexics go to great lengths to preemptively “prove” they’re eating in ways that don’t actually involve being seen eating. Leaving dishes in the sink that haven’t actually been used, etc. Anorexia is a secret addiction and the idea of “I have to hide this from others, they won’t understand, I know what I’m doing, they’ll try to make me eat!” is key.
e: autocorrect lol
Last edited: