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Anorexia and Bulimia - are they really diseases?
So I've heard a couple people refer to anorexia as a disease.... which to me makes no sense.
I looked it up and it's more prominantly refered to as a "disorder" which makes more sense, but still seems.... wrong somehow.
"I don't want to eat" and "I love to eat but hate getting fat so I force myself to puke it up" sound like choices to me... not disorders.
So I started to think... depression... is that a disorder or just a choice? Well, a good portion of the time, it's a result of a chemical inbalance in the brain. This constitutes a disorder to me.
People who don't want to eat or have perfectly good food and then throw it up intentionally... I guess I just don't understand it.
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