In article <JCtTj.3424$ch1.2958@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>"boo" <booberry3@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>I want to know what you all think about the subject of anorexia and
>other eating disorders. I suffer from Ana but I want to know how other
>people view it.
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>It is a "Mental Disorder" pure and simple.
There are mental disorders that are pure and simple? New to me;)
>What make it so much worse is the fact that it is self-inflicted.
Lots of evils are. In fact, the Stoics believe that all true evils are
self-inflicted. Apparently, Chrysostom believed it too, since he wrote a
sermon
titled, "that no one can harm a good man".
>It is both low self esteem and vanity gone awry at the very same time.
But this is _often_ the case. And the reason it is so often the case is
described so very well in St. Augustine's pithy but untranslateable saying
I
adopted as my sigfile. Vanity is always the _bad_ kind of self-love, the
kind of
self-love that must be hated and avoided, but the only possible _good_
kind of
'self-esteem' must be founded on the _good_ self-love, the kind he
describes as
stealing yourself away from yourself, for yourself, giving yourself over
to God,
or, more precisely:
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Subducat se sibi ut haereat Deo
Quidquid boni habet tribuat illi a quo factus est
(Sanctus Aurelius Augustinus, Ser. 96)
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