Anorexia's a medical condition. Hence the reason people feel sorry for them. Majority of the time, obesity is not a medical condition, so people don't feel the need to feel sorry for them.

that's because anorexia is a medical disease, dumbass. 6% of the people with anorexia nervosa die due to causes related to anorexia.

Many fat people also have medical conditions that make them fat, but everyone assumes they just over-eat. All anorexics have to do to not have a "disease" is eat a sandwhich every now and then. Get over their aversion to food, and know that there are more ways to have control over their lives. Anorexia cure = food. Therefore it is not a real disease.

Actually it is. The brains of anorexic's tell them that they can't eat any more food because they're gain 30 pounds from one bowl of cereal. They can't control their eating habits, because their brain forces them into believing things that aren't real. Anorexics become absolutely obsessed with their body that it causes the slight mental issues that allow them to not eat. If anorexia lasts long enough, the victim will grow up to hate the sight of food, and especially the smell. And some anorexics do eat. They eat enough to survive. They may even take in a sandwich. It's a lot harder to get over a hatred of food than it is to stop eating so much and drop a food pounds.. Even if the obesity is called by a medical condition, there are ways to stop it. Diet pills, 30 minute exercise. It doesn't have to be all about over-eating, but still, even genetic obesity can be prevented. Anorexia cannot.

Bullshit. All anorexics have to do is quit being emo ******* and eat something. Just like all fat people have to do is quit being lazy assholes and stop eating so much. Changing your eating habits isn't that complicated a procedure; People need to quit whining and do something rather than labelling everything they don't want to deal with as a medical condition.

It's really not a disease. You say it a problem in the brain? Yes, but it's just that their mind set is toward not wanting to eat, all they have to do is change their mind set and EAT. It's the same thing with any addiction, or in this case an addiction to not eating. It's a choice, it's preventable, just like a lot of other problems. Anorexia's think their so different because their skinny, don't eat, don't feel pretty, which can lead to low self-esteem and depression, and feel the need for control. Fat people struggle with similar things only the opposite. Their fat, which can lead to low self-esteem and depression, eat too much, and feel the need for control.

Elfuzzo: I agree with you on most of what you said. :)

You are idiots, telling an anorexic to eat is like telling a person with depression to be happy.