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anorexia?!?

To be anorexic must you make yourself sick, i mean if you go endlessy without food and over excercise but dont make yourself sick is that still anorexia ?

Public Comments

1. no that would just classify as unhealthy...but if ur not eating "endlessly" because ur trying to lose weight or stay skinny and overexcercise..then yes ur on the path to anorexia.....
2. yeah it still is, thats how it starts your 'doing it right'. but it goes wrong, esp. when you try to stop and be 'normal' you'll feel super guilty and thats where it will get worse...sad day*
3. That's not true. You can be anorexic and not make yourself sick. Anorexia is a psyche disorder, not a physical one (although the disorder often leads to physical changes and symptoms): From Medicinenet.com Most individuals with anorexia become obsessed with food and thoughts of food. They think about it constantly and become compulsive about eating rituals. They may collect recipes, cut their food into tiny pieces, prepare elaborate calorie-laden meals for other people, or hoard food. Additionally, they may exhibit other obsessions and/or compulsions related to food, weight, or body shape that meet the diagnostic criteria for an obsessive compulsive disorder.
4. If you are not eating enough, you could be anorexic. If you are going endlessly without food and over exercising, you are definitely anorexic no matter how you feel. You may feel ok, now, but you'll get sick eventually. Your destiny? Hospitalization and possibly death. If you are doing this, please get help immediately.
5. Yes anytime you don't eat, ovexercize... in order to loose weight or to avoid gaining weight it could be an eatting disorder!!
6. eww all u need to konw about eating disorders is their disgusting and unhealthy guys dont wanna bang a girl if their pelvis is sticking out of their skin!!
7. whether u make ur self feel sick or not its still anorexia because u are still starving your body
8. yes. not all anorexics make themselves sick. they can just starve themselves and compulsively excercise. im anorexic, and i have a severe phoebia of sick...so its like impossible, or very unlikely for me to purge. being anorexic simply means you have a phoebia of gaining weight, and you think you're fat...whereas inact you start off as thin or average...and slowly your BMI decreases causing an unhealthy weight and health problems hope this helped xx