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Originally Posted by OhioBlue
Haven't I made myself quite clear yet? Whether its warranted or not is hardly my concern. When I have a client in front of me who is eating less than 500 calories a day on top of at least 2 hours of hard exercise, purging daily, who is experiencing chest pains, hair loss, amenorrhea, etc, the last thing on either of our minds is whether or not we should call it a disease. We do... so what? We don't....so what? The call for help doesn't end with a label. "Yeah, so you have a pretty bad disease, go get yourself some fluvoxamine and I'll see you in a month."
I can't think of many more ways to try to make my point.
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What was your point again? That telling someone with Anorexia that they do not have a disease is the equivalent to telling that someone that they do?
No greater value is to be placed on the one approach or the other?
I think I'll pass on that philosophy.
Doctors treat disease. Folks with anorexia are not put in the ICU for their non-disease.
If you are not interested in thinking of any human condition as disease, just say so. So we know what we are dealing with.