why is education about anorexia so low?

most do not realize that it's a mental health issue. in general mental health is a touchy subject in the US, it also encompasses a wide range of illnesses.

because they are little 12 year old girls who have no idea that anorexia is not a measurement for thinness, it's a mental problem. They just don''t realize that. Then they start their little diets with "omg there's lyke 2 calories in that chewing gum, I'm s0 ttlly over my limit" so they get attention from other people.

Then the diet takes over and starts screwing with their head.

Then their eating patterns get disordered. And /then/ they develop some sort of eating disorder and wish they never started counting calories in the first place.

So yeah it really is stupid. Nobody wakes up one day and says "hey I know, I'm gonna be hardcore anorexic today, wheeee!" :/

because to the general public (especially when there is a condition/syndrome for every silly emotion), it's kinda silly to get involved with a "condition" where people - usually young girls (which are seen as naive, not as smart/mature, superficial, overly sensitive) - forgo a routine that is necessary to sustain a healhty life for a such superficial reason (regardless of it's mental aspect), especially when they are aware of it and choose not to fix it, not tryin to hate or be harsh, just sayin

Education about Anorexia isn't LOW

In fact every person in the entire western world knows all about it.

We all know whta it is, why the people are like that, about the control issues, about the warning signs, about the physical problems

We all knwo about it

It isn't a mystery

And those people who say they want to be anorexic are just kids. They are stupid and silly and flighty and retarded. They are just being dumb kids, like kids are supposed to be.