What is an example of anorexic ideation? What are the signs?
There are four classic symptoms of anorexia. But the one I find most interesting, I’m quoting the (psychiatric guidelines) DSM IV here, says, “Anorexic individuals often engage in compulsive rituals, strange eating habits, and the division of foods into good/safe and bad/dangerous categories.” Now that’s just called dieting. It’s interesting how we’ll recognize something as dangerously pathological if it puts you in the hospital but is considered healthy-choice living if you haven’t taken that behavior to that level. So the diet culture is simply the culture of anorexia at a socially functional level. That’s why we have all this hysteria about obesity. People who are operating within an anorexic mind frame are naturally freaked out by the notion of “fat people” – a category that not coincidentally is getting bigger all the time. And that’s because the definitions of who is overweight is being pushed ever downward? Like the latest recommendation from researchers at Harvard University th
