A certain amount of harm avoidance is a good thing. You want to worry about stuff. It keeps you alive, |
I look at it very much like depression, ... All of us can get depressed. If somebody dies in the family, and you don't get depressed, there's something wrong with you. But there's a small percentage of people who have major depressive disorders. It's the same kind of thing with bulimia and anorexia; it's a spectrum. |
The people who recover actually do pretty well in life, |
they hate their phobias and want to get rid of them. But these women with anorexia simply think, 'This is the way we are.' |
We could have been sitting here 20 years ago and have had the same conversation about autism or schizophrenia, ... And people would have said of course schizophrenia and autism are caused by [the actions of] mothers. |
You try starving yourself to death, ... It's like holding your breath. After a while, your physiology is going to scream, 'Breathe!' |