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Anyone who has been touched by an Eating Disorder will be aware of the complexities involved. Or you may not and make comments like "why don't you just eat".
This article is about highlighting the difficulties in treating Eating Disorders and perhaps understanding why a comment like "why don't you just eat" is a complete misunderstanding of the situation.
Cynthia discovered after being asked by a colleague to write a chapter [comparing sleep patterns in people with anorexia to people who had depression] that she had been surrounded by eating disorders all her life.
Cynthia Bulik
Millie Thomas
Asking a sufferer of an eating disorder like Anorexia Nervosa "why don't you just eat" is according to Cythia Bulik akin to asking a Pancreas to "just make some more insulin" for a diabetes sufferer. This is a double standard. To someone who was biologically predisposed to Anorexia, that's not going to work.
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