Replies to '02/25 Deadly Thin'

I don't know any personally, but it's possible for men to have eating disorders too. In fact, the consensus of anorexics in...(trying to remember....) I believe it was 2002, I could be mistaken, turned up a larger percentage of men than women.

When I saw the commercial for this episode, I was really scared for this woman. To be honest, I'm surprised she's not dead, or in the hospital, dying. To some of us it may seem rediculous that she is afriad of Dr. Phil thinking she's fat, but if she's that severe of an anorexic and bulimic, then she doesn't really see that she's wrong about it.

I feel sad for her too, because she's probably never going to be able to have kids. Even if Dr. Phil does save her, I think it's too late to save the possibility of children. My aunt had a friend who was anorexic, and she got help and recovered, but unfortunately the result was that she ended up sterile and can't have kids anymore. 

I really do hope Dr. Phil can help her. It's truely sad to see someone so far into an eating disorder like that.

I wish the doctor Phil show would have a man vs. a women with eating disorders on his show because my X-husband whom I live with has one.  Anxiety disorders can also cause eating disorders to some degree.   One doesn't need to just throw up they can also be taking laxatives and suppositories.  The mental illness of this disease is devastating not only to the person who has it but to the family.  It is such a hidden secret... I will be anxious to see this show... and I hope Dr.Phil will follow up with this issue pertaining to men.

I recently lost an Aunt to anorexia and bulimia. I have grown up watching these two disorders my whole life. My father also struggles with them. Although he is not as obsesed, just like any addiction he has his good times and his bad. My aunt developed the eating disorders through a bad  case of Post Pardum Depression after having her first and only son. Although we spent many years and alot of money sending her to  different treatment places, she never had the "light" go on. We all tried so hard to get her help, but like they say with any "addiction". The addict has to want to quit. I I refer to these two disorders as addictions quite often in teaching people about them, they are so much like an addiction, and definatly not an easy one to overcome!!! I give the biggest hug and support to those who have overcome these disorders, and a hug just as big to those trying to overcome these disorders!!! This is very much a man's disorder just as much as a womens, I have known my fair share of men suffering from these disorders!!!  

"life is worth so much more than money, never say it costs' to much for treatment...it is worth saving that life!!!"