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Originally Posted by MikeWaters
You were answering CatBlue about eating disorders. I hope you are not suggesting that calling eating disorders diseases is unwarranted.
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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.