Are people suffering with Anorexia or bulimia mentally strong enough to know they are sick?

Question

One of the effects of these eating disorders is your brain is starved and no longer can process information in the same way as a brain functioning at a 'normal' level. The same can be said when a person is on drugs/alcohol.
Why do we, (the public) keep asking these ill people to answer the question as to whether they recognize their illness.

Answer 1

No! Thats the whole prob

Answer 2

Have suffered from the two - anorexia then more advantageous bulimia whilst improving. i finished purging approximately 9 months in the past. My expereince of EDs is that mentally bulimia is a approaches worse as with anorexia you a minimum of expertise on top of issues. Now attempting to be happy and healthful and undo 5 years of psychological and actual self-inflicted harm yet I nonetheless be bothered by BDD and locate myself very gruesome plenty so as that normally i can not flow out this is dumb.

Answer 3

No.

I wasn't mentally strong enough to realize that I had Anorexia; I kept saying I was just fine. I don't think I realized that I was starving myself!

Another way I could tell my brain 'wasn't working' was that my grades dropped dramatically during this period.

Answer 4

i don't think so because both are a uncontrolable disease they know that they are skinny but they don't realize the severity of it or even know that they are doing something that is causing it there for they thing it is normal and continue doing the wrong thing. they do have to have mental conseling to overcome the disease most times it is hard for them to face the fact that they are starving themselves to death and could lead to a mental break down. most anorexic people have been that way all of their lifes with out realizing it and just naturally think they are skinny.

Answer 5

A lot of them know it. It just gives them another reason to hate themselves. Addicts know it too, and even cigarette smokers, but you reach a point where you don't care.