ranting abt public perception of ed’s just want to get it off my chest bc tbh im livid
i think its actually shocking how little the general public knows about eating disorders especially se-anorexia and the way they speak about people with long term restrictive ed’s is genuinely so frustrating
people with severe and enduring ed’s are almost always more open to treatment than people with shorter term/“less severe” (ridiculous imo all eating disorders are severe and you can die at any weight) because the reality is people know they are dying and their bodies are literally destroyed beyond repair and they WANT TO GET BETTER. the issue is that barely anybody is qualified to treat long term anorexia because the mentality is completely different and it doesn’t respond to treatment unless the underlying conditions are addressed and its almost always either bpd or cptsd which psychs have decided are Incurable And Fatal and refuse to treat.
and the way people with se-an are shamed and made fun of for “not getting help” but then nobody wants to help people who are earlier in their ed or at a higher weight or suffering an ed that isn’t restrictive. you refuse to help people while they can still be helped, in fact you MAKE IT WORSE, and then blame people when they’re too sick for the help they should’ve been able to access years ago to work. teenage girls who aren’t skinny on tiktok talking about their anorexia/bulimia get bullied and shamed and told they don’t look sick enough. literally everybody with bed is called lazy, unmotivated, told they lack self control. every single person at a higher weight is looked at differently and given snide comments for eating and gets awful comments on their social media and told from every single angle of society that they’re not enough. and then when these people are finally “sick enough” they’re TOO sick, they’re “refusing treatment”, they’re viewed as dramatic, they’re told to just eat. you fucking idiots they DID EAT. the same people telling others to Just Eat are literally the reason so many people stopped in the first place.
eating disorders are MENTAL ILLNESSES NOT PHYSICAL. if someone is engaging in severely restrictive eating, regardless of weight, they can and often will die. your bmi could be 50, it could be 30, it could be 20, it could be 10. guess what. starving the body of nutrients, vitamins and essential macros impacts your organs regardless of weight. the body stores fat, not protein, not iron, not vitamins. there’s a reason people that are considered overweight or obese still get hungry and its because the human body needs food. people don’t understand how common it is for young girls with binge eating disorder to snap one day and fall into full blown restriction. it is better to be fat than to starve. there’s a reason the “overweight” range is so much bigger than the underweight range, and it’s because your body can handle excess weight, it cannot handle not having enough.
binge eating is not a moral failure restrictive eating is not a moral failure purging is not a moral failure having disordered thoughts but still eating a normal diet is not a moral failure. every single person with disordered thoughts is sick. not just the ones who are already too far gone because you refused to acknowledge they were sick to begin with
i haaate society i will delete this soon definitely but ugh
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