Word: denialism
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...will often leave evidence around--laxatives on the dresser, vomitus in the toilet bowl--as if they want to get caught," says Tamara Pryor, director of an eating-disorders clinic at the University of Kansas in Wichita. Anorexics, by contrast, are more likely to go through long periods of denial...
...pierce some of that denial by listening to how someone you are concerned about talks about her body. Does she moan about her fat behind even though she's rail thin? Is she hiding under baggy clothes? Has her energy level dropped so low that she's sleeping all the time? Doctors suspect anorexia when a woman weighs 15% below normal and hasn't menstruated for at least three months. But there are more subtle signs as well: the growth of baby-fine hair (as the shrinking body tries to keep warm), brittle nails, swollen joints. Bulimics may develop...
...laws. The differences between Bette and Boo's parents and their very different senses of familial responsibility provide Durang with endless amounts of comic fuel. Karen MacDonald (playing Margaret Brennan, Bette's mother) stomps across the stage as a wildly exaggerated version of an over-domineering mother in complete denial that anything is wrong with her family; Thomas Derrah mumbles his way convincingly through Margaret's stroke-victim husband Paul's virtually incomprehensible speeches. In contrast to Margaret Brennan's fruitless and overeager attempts to raise a normal family, Boo's parents, Karl and Soot, are the archetypal alcoholic husband...
...political experience, would take her former countrymen by storm," the article argued. "I'm honored, but it is not my life," she told TIME last week. "I love being an American, and representing the U.S. is the greatest job I could ever have in my life." Not exactly a denial...
Parents and students also suggested that the proposed "Attendance Review Committee" would place undue hardship on students for whom English is a second language. The proposed committee would adjudicate the denial of credit to students whose parent-excused absences were not on the approved list...