anorectics

In her groundbreaking book, Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia, a source of solace to a generation of anorectics, Marya Hornbacher hints at this.

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Those anorectics philosophically opposed to all matters of the spirit may be uncomfortable with viewing their affliction as a spark that can be fanned into the flame of a spiritual practice.

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Meanwhile, doctors and therapists are unstinting in their efforts to unearth undiscovered causes and devise new methods to treat anorexia (not to mention, get rich off the parents of anorectics).

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There is a catch, too: the chronic stress of being on diet may add to inflammation unless anorectics, such as rimonabant, are used.

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It is likely that the compound's use as an anorectic is the sole reason is it classified as a controlled drug, as "overprescription" of anorectics (as a class) in the mid-20th century resulted in a number of cases of abuse or addiction.

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Only in the late Victorian period did doctors make the breakthrough of seeing through patients' misleading descriptions of their symptoms: they realized that the anorectics were in fact hungry, after all.

Historical ideations of starvation and amputation. bradamant 2003

The difference is in the disorder: Brumberg says that anorectics use the condition as a tool to make a point about their place in family and society; whereas Elliott suggests that the apotemnophiles turn within and use the diagnosis as a way to express their dissatisfaction with their bodies.

Historical ideations of starvation and amputation. bradamant 2003

Thus doctors would watch over the girls to substantiate that they ate nothing--effectively supervising the deaths of anorectics who had been sneaking tiny morsels of food all along.

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Yet according to the psychiatrist William N. Davis, who has supplied an epilogue to Holy Anorexia, it has now reached such proportions that throughout the United States and Western Europe there are countless organizations devoted to assisting anorectics and their families.

By Love Possessed Cohn, Norman 1986

The struggle is often in vain: although many anorectics do partially recover, and some recover completely, many others either lapse into a chronic and desperate condition or else simply die.

By Love Possessed Cohn, Norman 1986