Is anorexia an illness or a sin?
Though I have a subclinical case, I most certainly have the symptoms, and I relate to other anorexics. This would suggest an illness, with common symptoms. Yet sin patterns also have common symptoms...for example, alcoholics end up similar to each other.
There is an element of choice in anorexia, even rebellion against better judgement.
Why didn't I stop restricting after experiencing frightening physical symptoms such as waking up in the middle of the night in a hungry panic? Fear of weight gain, body checking...the problems developed so gradually that I didn't realize what was happening. So many factors contributed; the development seems almost inevitable.
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