CW: Weight loss
Can anxiety cause the inability to eat? Not appetite suppression, I’m constantly starving, I just can’t make myself eat anything that’s right in front of me. Lost over 5 lbs in a week & worried 
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Replying to @remembrancermx
The term "anorexia nervosa" really ought to be more broadly applied than it is
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Replying to @arthur_affect
In my case that would also require acknowledging fat people can be anorexic. As it stands, I could stop eating completely & it still wouldn’t be anorexic until I drop 30 lbs.
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Replying to @remembrancermx @arthur_affect
Atypical anorexia is being utilized more and more for this reason - no weight requirement
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They just need to drop the BMI requirment altogether so they can start seeing just how many fat people are anorexic by every other measure.
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Replying to @TheCaterjillar
That’s essentially what atypical anorexia is in the DSM-V! Just many practitioners unfortunately who aren’t up-to-date on EDs, especially when it’s not something they “specialize” in :/
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Replying to @Nerdomniaphile
I am aware. I'm saying fatness shouldn't make it atypical. It needs to be dripped entirely and seen as typical in fat people as well.
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Replying to @TheCaterjillar
Ah, sorry for the misunderstanding - I agree, would be way less fat-phobic if it was simply removed as a diagnostic criteria. All AN patients would be better served if extreme “underweightedness” were treated as a separate compounding medical issue
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Yeah being underweight is a symptom, it's not defining of the illness, or it shouldn't be It's really fucked up that the overwhelming desire to lose weight is either diseased or healthy depending only on your current weight
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And again regardless of what your weight is right now, the body dysmorphia associated with anorexia is not in and of itself the definition of anorexia I knew someone who ended up hospitalized because she was "too anxious to eat" who never said shit about weight loss
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