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What's worse, cutting or starving?

Cutting
Starving (anorexia)
Can't decide

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drstrangelove

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Re: What's worse, cutting or starving?
« Reply #30 on: March 07, 2008, 09:47:56 pm »
Shadowgandor...

I have a very close friend who has dealt with both  issues simultaneously, and move into the same exact position your friend is in, and know several others who have dealt with anorexia.  My conversations with them have led me to this conclusion:

Cutting has more immediate repercussions, but it is a tad easier to stop.

Anorexia takes a little more time to effect something, but it's more permanently damaging and is takes a lot more willpower to stop.  Cutting is usually more of a choice, Anorexia can become a mental illness, where one starves him or herself without even realizing it. The people I know of never have breakfast without measuring exact amounts of what they're eating, and they do it by habit, not because they choose too.  They're literally afraid of not measuring, even if they want to stop being anorexic.

On the other hand, I've discovered that it's easier for me to help my friends with anorexia, because it's easier to visibly see if they're doing well (watching them eat, etc.)

Just my 2 cents.  Like Atom Eve said, quick reaction is best.  The less ingrained into a person's behavior, the easier the problem is to solve.

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Re: What's worse, cutting or starving?
« Reply #31 on: March 07, 2008, 10:28:06 pm »
It's the typical misconception of a short-sighted Westerner to say that real problems are in 3rd-world countries, as opposed to 1st-world countries.

Sorry, boy, but I think those people yould give half their life just to be allowed to have our problems. Just compare the problems somebody has who does not like raisins ring cake to somebody who ... lives in the constant fear of getting enslaved, raped or killed by combattants and does not know where to get enough food to survive the very next day.

Oh man... whatever drugs you take - stop it! Now!
I have retired from Tremulous. Definetely. If you play a game just because it has become a habit, but u'r only feeling like a kindergarten teacher - well, maybe I am just getting too old (hell, I was a teenager when DukeNukem3D was *new*) - it's probably not a bad idea to just let it be. And I do.

Don't take this personally. Have fun, guys.

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Re: What's worse, cutting or starving?
« Reply #32 on: March 08, 2008, 01:21:46 pm »
It's the typical misconception of a short-sighted Westerner to say that real problems are in 3rd-world countries, as opposed to 1st-world countries.

Sorry, boy, but I think those people yould give half their life just to be allowed to have our problems. Just compare the problems somebody has who does not like raisins ring cake to somebody who ... lives in the constant fear of getting enslaved, raped or killed by combattants and does not know where to get enough food to survive the very next day.

Oh man... whatever drugs you take - stop it! Now!

Now iT's quite clear why Ethiopian and Guatemalan clans suck so much in Tremulous...
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