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[24 Sep 2006|02:46am] I am really not fucking taking this well. I am so upset that you did this. I am so upset that I didn't talk to you more over the past 6-12 months; I fucking feel like ass for it. I wish you had fucking THOUGHT. FUCK. FUCKKK. 11 Die Look at the numbers

And the open post :) [11 Jul 2005|04:15am] Anyone invited to afz, haha, anorexicbones, or other, please go here to manage your invite or to check if your invitation has been sent. ana_elitists has been deleted since A) it's dead, and B) none of the new applicants seemed to understand that "ana" isn't an eating disorder Please do not bother me for an invite to any of these places. Check the link I've provided. If you don't have an invite, you probably weren't meant to. I also have alot of things going on in *gasp* my life, so I tend to skip those comments. Each of these communities has their own policies anyway so try, oh I don't know, READING THE USERINFOS.

"Anorexic Behavior" and thus relating to "mindset" [26 Jun 2005|09:47pm] I'd like to share something I wrote, in response to a post, about "Anorexic Behavior": Anorexia is a mental disease characterized by physicality. That's the end of it. You don't like it, fight the DSM IV, but too bad otherwise. If you don't meet these physical characteristics, it's not that you DON'T have an eating disorder, you may have Eating Disorder NOS (or another that you do fit the criteria of). However the only things that differentiate anorexia ARE PHYSICAL. 1.Refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height (e.g., weight loss leading to maintenance of body weight less than 85% of that expected; or failure to make expected weight gain during period of growth, leading to body weight less than 85% of that expected). 2. Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though underweight. 3. Disturbance in the way in which one's body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation, or denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight. 4. In postmenarcheal females, amenorrhea, i.e., the absence of at least three consecutive menstrual cycles. (A woman is considered to have amenorrhea if her periods occur only following hormone, e.g., estrogen, administration.) Sorry, but the DSM IV doesn't give a shit whether you've practiced "anorexic behavior" because it's not anorexic behavior, it's eating disordered behavior. And the only thing it specifies, behavior-wise is when it gets into specific types- Restricting Type: during the current episode of Anorexia Nervosa, the person has not regularly engaged in binge-eating or purging behavior (i.e., self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas) Binge-Eating/Purging Type: during the current episode of Anorexia Nervosa, the person has regularly engaged in binge-eating or purging behavior (i.e., self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas) And that is only defined after you meet the physical criteria, and they just care if you engaged in binging/purging behavior. Therefore "anorexic behavior" is not defined. _____________________________________________________________ The Eating Disorder Not Otherwise Specified category is for disorders of eating that do not meet the criteria for any specific Eating Disorder. Examples include: 1. For females, all of the criteria for Anorexia Nervosa are met except that the individual has regular menses. 2. All of the criteria for Anorexia Nervosa are met except that, despite significant weight loss, the individual's weight is in the normal range. 3. All of the criteria for Bulimia Nervosa are met except that the binge eating and inappropriate compensatory mechanisms occur at a frequency of less than twice a week or for a duration of less than 3 months. 4. The regular use of inappropriate compensatory behavior by an individual of normal body weight after eating small amounts of food (e.g., self-induced vomiting after the consumption of two cookies). 5. Repeatedly chewing and spitting out, but not swallowing, large amounts of food. 6. Binge-eating disorder: recurrent episodes of binge eating in the absence of the regular use of compensatory behaviors characteristic of Bulimia Nervosa (Binge eat, but do not purge). Because Anorexia SPECIFICALLY is differentiated from ED NOS by these physical characteristics, to say a person has an "Anorexic Mindset", as well, is a bit inaccurate. While a person can have a "Disturbance in the way in which one's body weight or shape is experienced, undue influence of body weight or shape on self-evaluation" or "Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat", that is pretty general to Eating Disorders and even the two points of criteria those are taken from within the documented criteria for Anorexia Nervosa have an emphasis on being underweight, this fear despite being currently underweight, or a "denial of the seriousness of the current low body weight". Therefore what is commonly referred to as an "Anorexic Mindset" is truly an "Eating Disordered mindset", as the mindset alone is not what marks Anorexia Nervosa, but the physical characteristics. _______________________ EDIT: Holy crap, Em rocks. This is fucking cool, she wrote like almost the same thing as me. READ IT! Bwhaaha 11 Die Look at the numbers

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