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Originally Posted by Reaper16
Mental illness isn't pathetic. I have a good friend who was very much close to death as a result of her anorexia. It wasn't something she could control, either. The good news is that one can recover from both the physical side of having your body digest it's own organs because its so starved, and recover from the mental side that cause it in the first place. She's overweight now, but she's happy and alive.
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Sometimes mental illness
is pathetic. See pedophiles and, conservatives would say, homosexuals.
I would like to see an experiment:
Send a bulimic/anorexic to an island where there is plenty of fresh water, but absolutely no food...not even insects. Nothing to eat at all. Turn a TV camera on them and see what happens. Are they overjoyed at the fact that there is no food, even though it means they are doomed? As they starve to death, do they become more and more ecstatic? Are they at their happiest seconds before they die? Or do they forget about their precious "figure" when they realize that eating is no longer an option, and that they are, without a doubt, going to die?
My second experiment involves what a person with Terrett's Syndrome says if he/she grows up without ever hearing profanity of any kind, but that's for another thread.