Word: anorexia
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...Lauring Conant, an internist at UHS, e0xplains that denial of the problems keeps patients from seeing a doctor. He has seen only two "full-blown" cases of anorexia in the past two years. "One of the terrifying things with this disease," Conant says, "is that they're on a dangerous crevice of 65 pounds and engage in vocational and avocational activities and get in trouble. Even though they may look like prisoners or war victims, they still engage in sports and you wonder how they can do it. Characteristically they are high achievers, intelligent students. Even in starvation, their cerebral...
Tully, at Mass General Hospital, found that many anorexic patients are children of obese parents. "One pattern of anorexia is that one parent, usually the mother, is overweight and constantly dieting and compulsive about dieting and loses weight and gains it right back again. The mother's compulsive habits are forced on the children. The children start dieting wanting to be sexually attractive to males. What occurs so that they don't know when to stop I don't know...
Schreiner does not believe that only women wish to deny their sexuality. He says, "If you regard severe impotence as an expression of fear of sexuality and denial of sexuality then I'm sure if anorexia is common at Radcliffe, impotence is rampant at Harvard...
...seems the theories will keep coming. Anorexia's increasing frequency among both males and females could mean that the results of future studies, based on a larger number of patients, will be more conclusive and more widely accepted. But future studies may only result in a few more casual theories spiralling off, and the development of a new theory to explain why anorexia is on the upswing...
...skinny young woman has been talking about her anorexia for about two hours, and she's gone through a lot of cigarettes. She said her anorexia was an attention-getting device. Because she was sickly-thin, everyone worried about her, and she had the concerned attention of parents and friends, especially male friends. She says, "You're attracted to men who will take care of you. Once they respond sexually, you find that hateful because they're intruding upon your freedom, so you run. It's very selfish--they want something but you don't want to give anything...