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Originally Posted by WOMBAI

Sorry Inone - but I don't agree anything has been 'proven' one way or the other! What people fail to acknowledge is that even the 'experts' often disagree on whether certain conditions are really illnesses or not! Many disagree on ME for example, AHAD is another! Yes people with alcohol problems and anorexia eventually become physically ill - no disputing that - but my original comments were about the root causes!

Your original comment was a hideously misguided sweeping statement that marganalized plenty of genuine sufferers to the level of attention seeking neanderthals.

And like people have already said, it doesn't matter what caused it. Attention seeking or not. They need help and compassion. Nobody wants to be dying of anorexia, and I have yet to meet a drug addict who is happy with his state of affairs. I am a firm believer that people can be made better, no matter how or why they got themselves into the mess they are in.

Also, the topic asked were they illnesses and diseases. You explicity replied that they were just attention seekers, which would cause many to assume you did not think they were diseases or illnesses. Now all of a sudden you are admitting they are and it's just the root problems you were talking about?

Anyway, enough of me and my laughable moral outrage .