The daughter of our close friends was anorexic, and, far from a craving attention, she loathed attention. She wore padded clothes to conceal her problem. She wanted to be left alone.
A truly beautiful girl, she passionately aspired to be a ballerina, but by about 10th grade her doctor told her that her that she'd lost so much bone mass that if she tried even her easier routines she'd break her foot bones and her shins; and if she fell, she'd break her hip.
She was losing her ability to even assimilate food, and at that point, "just eating more" wouldn't help at all.
She finally pulled through after long, patient medical intervention, but is still not out of danger.
"Cry for attention"? She's quiet, socially avoidant, self-effacing to the point of self-erasing.
Your diagnosis is off.
” The daughter of our close friends was anorexic, and, far from a craving attention, she loathed attention. She wore padded clothes to conceal her problem. She wanted to be left alone.
A truly beautiful girl, she passionately aspired to be a ballerina, but by about 10th grade her doctor told her that her that she’d lost so much bone mass that if she tried even her easier routines she’d break her foot bones and her shins; and if she fell, she’d break her hip.”
So many ballerinas have Anorexia too. They have to be so thin to dance ballet and not sure why as the founders of that, Marie Taglioni and Anna Pavlova were not skinny! They were not fat but not skin and bones!
Same thing for these gymnasts. You know lot of those girls have developed eating disorders if not Anorexia then it’s bulimia nervosa sometimes both!!!