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[phosfate]

"Contrary to a commonly held belief among the dwindling number of Americans who have not been touched by the disease, young people who fall into the grip of anorexia (15 percent of anorexics die of the ailment) are not, for the most part, trying to look like some magazine icon; they're trying to assert some control over a life that they feel is not really theirs."

http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2003/01/17/anorexic/index.html

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[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

Wow. And I have someone here on live journal I talk to in England who is going into the hospital as we speak, because she's dropped below 90 lbs...she just can't eat...she tries, and she gets horribly sick to her stomach. It's not a physical problem, they ruled that out, I think it's just her nerves. She's had a lot of nasty blows lately in her life. I wish I had some other way to stay in touch with her and encourage her.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

Well damn. I'm glad she's getting help, though.

I don't know much about eating disorders that isn't tv-movie vague, but I know from experience that extended stress of any kind can turn your stomach into a screaming hurty thing that wants nothing to do with the universe.

[theodicy.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately too true.

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[chorus-of-chaos.livejournal.com]

I've been through bouts of it it myself, where I was so stressed trying to eat would make me hurl, so I dranks those meal supplement things (those I could keep down) and hauled out the juicer we have and drank veggie juice so I at last had that in me until my tummy settled some.