From: "Andrea Schneider" <butterflyblue85@gmail.com>
Date: Mar 28, 2012 10:23 PM
Subject: Weighing in on eating disorders
To: <go@blogger.com>
One of the biggest misunderstandings people have is that a person's weight dictates how sick they are. When I was first diagnosed with anorexia I wasn't emaciated but had lost so much weight that it took the doc two mins to diagnosis. Eating disorders come in all shapes and sizes and media usually only portrays the extremely emaciated anorexic to society. Docs came up with a bogus diagnosis of EDNOS which basically means a person doesn't meet the dsm criteria for anorexia or bulimia...we have been petitioning to have the guidelines changed. A person can purge what she eats and not binge so she isn't bulimic or an anorexic is still getting a period can get the EDNOS diagnosis. What people don't understand is that using that diagnosis makes insurance companies think the person isn't sick enough for treatment. I've been in the hospital with girls suffering from anorexia and bulimia some were underweight, some were normal weight, and some were overweight but all still struggled. I don't believe in putting a number on the disease. I've been hospitalized at many different wts and ended up spending time in ICU when my wt was what most would say normal. Its not about the number...so many women and men die before they are considered underweight or sick enough for treatment...the outside does not always reflect the inside. Same goes for people thinking that once you put on weight its over and you are cured...when infact you are only nourished they battle can still be blazing in your head. In closing this entry people must remember its not about the number...weight is just one aspect of these disorders. Sufferers come in all sizes stop believing the only for someone to be anorexic or bulimic is for them to look like the half dead people that dr. Phil and oprah show you on television. This disease is a monster and it'd doesn't discriminate and just because insurance wants to base everything on numbers doesn't mean a person isn't going to go to bed and go into cardiac arrest one night and their life is ended prematurally because they didn't fit into a perfect little box some book provides.
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