McPhee Of Idol Show Has Bulimia...

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Originally Posted by listopencil

I understand you're point about other people's standards contributing to the eating disorders. I think they do. But as you point out here, it's a mental disorder. It would continue even without outside stimulus.

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?