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Originally posted by Ginger
Sorry to intrude, as I'm not AA, but I am a (recovering) anorexic.
...An anorexic will lie, steal, do anything necessary to prevent anyone from findng out about her disorder, especially if finding out would mean having to receive treatment and gain weight.
To this day, my parents don't know I have an eating disorder. It's ridiculously easy to hide if you try hard enough. I love my parents to death, but I don't want them to know what I did to myself.
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Thank you for your insight and I greatly appreciate it. Eating disorders affect many different people and it may be culturally specific...
My question to you is what were some way you would hide your disorder from you parents? How did you find out you had anorexia?
To be honest with you, many African Americans think that eating disorders are a "white person's " disease. However, research is showing that is not true... In fact, I think that the prevalence of bulimia is higher in African Americans than in other groups of people... But that's another story...
However, anorexia is where one chooses not to eat food at all if I am correct?
It is not a binge/purge as bulimia. So I guess what is on my mind is that how do many of sistah hide the fact they do not eat food if they are inculcated within the African American culture? Basically, if one lives with an African American grandmother, it is next to impossible to hide not eating--you must eat, period...
The old saying, "we gotta put some 'meat' on dem bones, girl!"