Why Is It a “Mental Illness” When You Try to Be Thin…?

Question by ♥ ☺ Sorry… I’m a girl! ☺ ♥: Why is it a “Mental Illness” when you try to be thin…?
Why is it a “Mental Illness” when you spend your life focused on how to NOT eat and NOT digest food but when it goes the other way and you are obsessed WITH EATING FOOD you are just stupid?

I’m serious about this…

I saw a show on Oxygen called “Rosey” and it is about a woman that is 400+ pounds and how she needs to either lose weight or she will die young…

If it wasn’t a mental illness that got her to that point, then why doesn’t everyone just “Stop Eating” like I hear people say all the time?

“How could someone do that to themselves?”
“God, that is sick! Why doesn’t she just stop eating?”

What is up with this double standard?

Are some fat people just not paying attention to what they are doing? Sure… Just like how my best friend has people coming up to her all the time saying “Are you anorexic?” that is just how she is…

No eating disorder… It is just what happens when she is so busy she forgets to eat and has never wanted to eat more then a handful of almonds for lunch her whole life… Her sister and mother are like that too… They are just genetically made to be that way…

But when you start talking about people that are 300+… That is another story all together…

We have scientific evidence that food is a psychological “Addiction” just like Anorexia, Bulimia, Marijuana Addiction, Sex Addiction, Gamboling Addition, Shopping Addiction…

They have thousands of MRI Scans that shows that in people with a psychological addiction, their brain chemistry works differently then with a “Normal” person… They can talk to the person in the scanner and show them pictures of things or even have them eat a bit of their fave food and it records the chemical reactions in the brain…

How can it not be a physical problem when we have evidence that it is caused and sustained by differing chemical reactions in the brain?

I saw one clip on YouTube where the guy said that you need to think of this as being addicted to anything else… The only difference is that with almost all other addictions, you can avoid the substance you have a problem with and never HAVE to consume it ever again… But with FOOD ADDICTION, it is like saying “You need to take just a tiny bit of heroin 3 times a day to stay alive… But don’t take too much!”

It seems like a valid line of reasoning…

Because very few people WANT to end up in a state where their weight threatens their very life…

Same as with those with anorexia and bulimia… They don’t WANT to die because of their weight… But that can’t stop them from destroying themselves…

I’m not trying to find a scapegoat for these people… I’m trying to figure out why there is no move to get TREATMENT for people that have a psychological addiction just like those with anorexia, bulimia, marijuana addiction, etc.

If there were no studies on this with evidence to how it is guided by a chemical and biological process… I would be right along with everyone else that shakes their head and calls them “Stupid”, “Lazy”, and, for some reason, less then human…

But with EVIDENCE (yes I use that term a lot) that it is a biological and psychological illness on par with anorexia and bulimia… Why do we not try to HELP people instead of just pointing at them and making barn yard animal sounds?

Why do you feel justified in abusing fat people but say “Oh, poor girl… She is ILL! She can’t help trying to be so thin that she has a heart attack due to lack of potassium and ends up in a persistent vegetative state!”

If you went up and started tormenting someone with Anorexia, you would be practically arrested for a hate crime! But make fun of a fat person? A stranger on the street? That isn’t just socially “Ok”, it is encouraged!

What is up with this double standard?

Please tell me your reasoning for this?

Best answer:

Answer by UrFilledWivEnvy
Because skinny/white people are ugly.

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