Anorexia may be caused by bacterial infection, BPS model questioned

[whodathunkit]

Might have been body dysmorphia.

Yep, that sounds exactly what @rosie26 described. I have mild dysmorphia. It's become plain to me over the years that what I see is not what others see, that's for sure. This was me

never satisfied with how she looks, and is always criticizing her features instead of blaming the dress for a perceived negative effect.

Although I usually kept all the criticism in my head because of the reaction I would get from others when I voiced it.

Mom's got it mildly, too, she was a real fat phobe for a while, so it's probably hereditary to some extent, maybe due to some snps. It never drove me to anorexia (I have the opposite problem, in fact), but when I was thin I was never thin enough. I thought I was a cow. I look at old pictures now and think "Holy crap, I totally *wasted* that!" but c'est la vie, I guess.

 

[user9876]

Not quite the same subject but there was work looking at bacteria exchange between rats and obesity but this has just been retracted
http://diabetes.diabetesjournals.org/content/65/5/1447.full

 

[rosie26]

Might have been body dysmorphia.

Perhaps that was what it was. I think the problem was that I hadn't set a weight to stop dieting and should have.

I think this must happen to some anorexic's, they lose the weight and then don't know when to stop.

 

[rosie26]

Yep, that sounds exactly what @rosie26 described. I have mild dysmorphia. It's become plain to me over the years that what I see is not what others see, that's for sure. This was me

It took me a few years to slowly pick up weight again. I enjoy food, so a couple of years after I had lost weight I got a job at a place where they served a lovely meal with a pudding at lunchtime and after a year of tucking into the lunch dinners at work and then having another dinner when I got home. I was roly-poly again for awhile. I managed to shed it again but I found a good weight that was not to thin or fat and I ate with out dieting, I just kept active.

 

[Richard7]

an article on this paper and a genetic study underway in the SMH
http://www.smh.com.au/national/health/its-insane-but-it-just-might-work-20160428-gogy2g.html

"Only 32 per cent of over 2400 Australian study participants to date said they were being monitored by a medical professional, according to the lead Australian ANGI study investigator Professor Nicholas Martin."

Strange, I think this sounds appalling even though I expect that the percentage of people with ME/CFS being monitored by a doctor would be lower, and acknowledge in ME/CFS (and perhaps anorexia nervosa) that that is because the doctors have so little to offer.