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Originally Posted by htismaqe
The mental disorder would continue without outside stimulus - true.
It might not manifest itself as an eating disorder, however.
For instance, my mother and her twin sister both have OCD. My mother is a "cleaner". Her house is immaculate - she vacuums at least once a day EVERY day. My aunt is a "germophobe". Lysol, anti-bacterical soap, the whole bit. Both of them have a similar mental disorder, a genetic predisposition to OCD. Several people in my family have it. Including their mother.
Their mother was a farm wife. To say the house was "disorganized" is probably being kind. She couldn't have been farther from the "cleaner" and "germophobe" archetypes. So why did they manifest the way they did? Could it be the environment they grew up in?
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Sure, I understand that. The human mind is incredibly complex and I have no idea why people develop particular compulsions over others. I think once the compulsion is developed it's not going to morph into another direction without some serious therapy, though. I don't believe a person with an eating disorder would respond by converting it because no one else is there to compare herself to.