[Mrs. Don-o]

Well, I know a sweet slender girl who was anorexic in high school. She really thought her body looked and felt grossly fat, although she'd gotten to the point where she was near-skeletal. The doctor told her frankly that if she didn't cooperate with mental health intervention and a program of trained eating, it would end in death.

The body-modifying doctors would probably say "Yeah, if you think you're too fat, you're too fat" and "treat" her by giving her a gastric bypass!!!

BTW after a couple of years of counseling and coaching, she seems to be OK now. Still slender but in the normal range. Thank God.

[outofsalt]

Anorexia seems to have passed as a societal phenomenon. Maybe when the media stopped covering it extensively?
I’m glad her youthful anxiety resolved without more severe consequences.