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Originally Posted by twistedmosaic
Honestly, I view obesity as a behavior problem and anorexia as a mental one. I've known plenty of anorexics and they were all very goal oriented...they wanted to be skinny, so they wouldn't eat. I've never known someone who was obese who was trying to be obese.
This makes the "illnesses" very different to me. I didn't gain 35 lbs this year so far because I'm striving for some unhealthy ideal...I am 250 lbs because I'm too fucking lazy to exercise and eat right, and if I don't do anything to change my lifestyle, this time next year I'll be 300lbs. It will be noones fault but my own, I won't have a mental disorder to blame for it.
Before I get raped for being insensitive in this post, I'm not trying to generalize this to "everyone who is fat is lazy," I am just saying that in my specific case, I am only fat because I am lazy. As soon as I stop being lazy, I will stop being fat.
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I agree with you that people view the disorders differently. I would also say that as there are so many people out there who are obese, when people who are of petite build and of healthy weight they are often approached as though they are underweight. This is a habit that I personally, have grown sick of.
I also have a very strong personal opinion that Medical and Psychological should be treated hand in hand. It would be a frightening thought for someone who is overweight or underweight to have for example, a thyroid disorder or a cancer go untreated because they thought it was in their head. On the other hand, it would be sad to know someone who had severe depression was going untreated because their Medical Doctor felt that it was all diet related and nothing more. If you look into the protocol for a bariatric surgery you would see that for most to become qualified for the procedure a psychiatric exam is required in advance of the procedure.
While you were lazy(your words, not mine) someone else was sexually abused, another grew up where high fat cooking and overindulging was the norm, another had a bad back injury and couldn't keep up with the previous activity level. The list, the reasons go on and on.