Anorexia's Living Face (CBS News)

Isabelle Caro is the face behind a poignant Italian ad campaign that depicts anorexia in its truest form, one that has shocked the fashion industry. Sheila MacVicar reports. (CBSNews.com)

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[TekkenAirJuggle]

I find it sad that she calls it an "illness". Disorders are not diseases.

[TekkenAirJuggle]

@alllisonnx0 By definition it's an eating disorder. Calling it an illness but not a disease makes no sense as they're the same thing.

[TekkenAirJuggle]

@baragouinify Psychological disorder. You don't come down with anorexia.

[baragouinify]

@TekkenAirJuggle This is an illness. One of the mind, but still an illness.

[plumeria66]

??How do freckles accentuate her eyes? I think the freckles make her look like a spotted animal.

[plumeria66]

Bad childhoods do not cause anorexia, or else anyone with a bad childhood would be anorexic which is not the case. Someone chooses to respond, albeit subconsciously, to reject foods as a way of gaining any measure of control in their lives. Anorexia is an unhealthy response to their own despair. It's a mental and behavioral disorder. Not an illness, not a disease. Blaming it on your childhood does nothing to change it. Viewing it as a disease does nothing either.

[plumeria66]

It's a mental disorder...with physical effects. It is not a physical disease.

[mssexymexican01]

R.I.P. Isabelle Caro

[SurpriseMe02]

its sad that she actually lost her fight to anorexia. RIP

[Hanya713]

LenaZavaroni,child-prodigy,lov­ed to sing, hi-achiever,perfectionist,ange­lic/always wants to plz, to b HER BEST. Suppose this CHILD hears/overhears simple words from an authority she trusts: "GREAT STAR-'cause so SMALL, LITTLE, w/AMAZING voice,like no other! BUT there's a POSSIBILITY the draw won't last as she grows BIGGER, mayNOT stay aGREAT star". Mostly she is ordered/controlled by others BUT the CRITICAL thing (to stay SMALL) was her "disordered belief/fear" in her child'sMIND&in herCONTROL.

[Hanya713]

'Disordered thinking' leads to disordered responses(emits/emots)emotiona­l acts reflected in poor emotional development,emotional immaturity(&MORE disordered thinking&responses). In anorexic cases, disordered belief(s) lead to acts of bad eating/no eating/no desire. If disordered beliefs aren't STRAIGHTened (layer by layer), actual PHYSICAL DISEASE results as the body itself becomes "conditioned" to ACT THE PART,throw-up/reject food/fail (Homosex reject OppositeSex as desirable mates;NO turn-on).

[Hanya713]

Mental disorder is disordered thinking basically. So if one's DNA reflects 'female' or if ones DNA reflects 'male' ...and for WHATEVER reasons, the person prefers to go into 'denial' and 'believe' something contrary to what is factual, then the believing (thinking)of that person is "disordered", out of order via a belief. I don't see that as an "illness" nor a "disease", but rather a mental "disorder". STRAIGHTening out the disordered thinking usually requires deep, long-term psychotherapy.