Talk:Anorexia nervosa/Comments

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I have a real problem with the following extract:

"It is important to note that many recovering underweight persons (who are more or less forced against their will into recovery by parents or other relatives) often harbour a hateful dislike for those who they feel to be robbing them of their treasured emaciation. Often when well-meaning friends or relatives compliment the recoveree on how much healthier they look, the recoveree's mind replaces "healthy" with "fat.""

I feel this is value-laden. I think some anorexics may be legitimately angry. Some treatments, up until at least the 80s, were almost Victorian and punitive and encroach on basic human rights. I have in mind the system of rewards to anorexics whereby rights are stripped and then returned as the 'patient' gains weight. As an anorexic this did me more lasting harm than good. It's institutional abuse. I am sure clinical studies would prove its ineffectiveness too. It also repudiates the feminist arguments as to the cause of anorexia as reactionary to patriarchal norms - sublimated or repressed anger. Some balance is needed. Mctudor 07:23, 15 May 2007 (UTC).