female body; let's take a reality check please

Zangpakto

How'd you come to the conclusion that fit chick is anorexic?

anorexia is characterized by the amount of weight lost in a period of time... so you could be really fat and starving yourself of food.... that would be considered anorexic so I am told...

Nope that's not correct. Just because your daily meals consist of 1/2 banana and coffee doesn't automatically make you anorexic. To be truly called anorexic, first you must be underweight. Now if you're starving yourself but still fat or in the normal weight range, you are considered EDNOS, not anorexic. EDNOS is another form of ED which describes those who have ED but doesn't met one or two criteria to be classified as anorexia or bulimia and the one you're describing (the bolded one) is one example.

Anorexia, technically, is medically applied to "lack of hunger leading to severe/sudden weight loss"; people undergoing chemo, suffering from AIDs, etc., can have "anorexia" as a symptom. However, anorexia as a mental disorder is characterized by further signs and symptoms.

If you yourself were diagnosed with EDNOS, that could very well just be the certain psychologist/psychiatrist that diagnosed you; if you got different opinions, a different doctor may have considered you anorexic, or with a comorbidity of body dysmorphia as an underlying issue. Psychology, like other medicine, can be applied differently by different practitioners.

Yes while I agree, you obviously do not or have not read the DSM IV... Read these two please...

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307.1 Anorexia Nervosa
* Refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height, for example, weight loss leading to maintenance of body weight less than 85% of that expected or failure to make expected weight gain during period of growth, leading to body weight less than 85% of that expected.
* Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though underweight.
* Disturbance in the way one's body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self evaluation, or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight.
* In postmenarcheal females, amenorrhea, i.e., the absence of at least 3 consecutive menstrual cycles. A woman having periods only while on hormone medication (e.g. estrogen) still qualifies as having amenorrhea.

Type

Restricting Type: During the current episode of Anorexia Nervosa, the person has not regularly engaged in binge-eating or purging behavior (self-induced vomiting or misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas).

Binge Eating/Purging Type: During the current episode of Anorexia Nervosa, the person has regularly engaged in binge-eating or purging behavior.

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307.50 Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified
This diagnosis includes disorders of eating that do not meet the criteria for the above two eating disorder diagnoses. Examples include
1. For female patients, all of the criteria for Anorexia Nervosa are met except that the patient has regular menses.
2. All of the criteria for Anorexia Nervosa are met except that, despite significant weight loss, the patient's current weight is in the normal range.
3. All of the criteria for Bulimia Nervosa are met except that the binge eating and inappropriate compensatory mechanisms occur less than twice a week or for less than 3 months.
4. The patient has normal body weight and regularly uses inappropriate compensatory behavior after eating small amounts of food (e.g., self-induced vomiting after consuming two cookies).
5. The patient engages in repeatedly chewing and spitting out, but not swallowing, large amounts of food.
6. Binge-eating disorder: recurrent episodes of binge eating in the absence if regular inappropriate compensatory behavior characteristic of Bulimia Nervosa.


EDIT: Oh and FYI - Anorexia = a (α, prefix of negation), n (ν, link between two vowels) and orexis (ορεξις, appetite), meaning a lack of desire to eat.

In the medical field the New Latin term of anorexia nervōsa is used = anorexia + nervōsa
nervōsa being the feminine of the verb for nervous.

gretchann917

also, those are not fake

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