Diease or not?

Who else thinks this is Mr White?

dis·ease ( P ) Pronunciation Key (d-zz)
n.
A pathological condition of a part, organ, or system of an organism resulting from various causes, such as infection, genetic defect, or environmental stress, and characterized by an identifiable group of signs or symptoms.
A condition or tendency, as of society, regarded as abnormal and harmful.
Obsolete. Lack of ease; trouble.

just you.

i'm interested in this MR white guy.... people are always name dropping about him.
who is he? andrew tried to explain this to me but hey, short attention span, what can you do?

i spelt disease wrong didn't i...

dear lord.

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How many hours later...??

Well thanks for that endeavour. The words "as much use as DazYa filling out a UCAS form" spring to mind.

He wrote the history of TSR, formed the way, haf left more times than Zapsta and I combined and always makes funny and witty comments. He's like Profesh but much better.

i'm sorry what? my mind wandered...

Who did what now?

Where am I?

Ok, have been having huge debate with my friends over this one. I say, obseity is a) a diease and b) the same diease as anoxeria.
Surely they are both the same thing, just different extremes of it yea?

I don't tend to think things through as i have the shortest attention span EVER known, so... is this true?

Obesity is a physical state i.e. someone has a bmi over 30, or weighs over a certain amount compared to their weight. It could be a symptom of a disorder/disease, but in itself is not a disease.

Because obesity is not a disease, it cannot be the same disease as anorexia (AN). Obesity is extreme, yes but it is not the opposite of AN as some like to think. The physical state that is the opposite of obesity is emaciation.

An ED that could cause obesity is compulsive over eating disorder (COE) or binge eating disorder (BED). So, some people might see these EDs as being the opposite of AN, but they are not and as you say they are extremes. All EDs are extremes but AN and COE are really not that different. EDs all have similar causes and AN, BN, COE etc are all linked closely. In fact many EDed people are not strictly one disorder, they show a combination of ED behaviours/symptoms.

Also, do not assume that all AN sufferers are emaciated.

Meh, whatever. All EDs are misery.

Ha! We said almost the same thing! Except I said it one minute before you - and you said it much more eloquently than me. Bah.

Maybe compulsive over eating is the different extreme to anorexia. Obesity is the result of it. I don't think obesity is similar to anorexia, because it can be caused by loads of things, not just by eating habits, while anorexia is always about a relationship with food.

There is actually a sortof "backward anorexia" in which people see themselves as desperately thin in need of fattening up, even though they're extremely overweight; so that explanation isn't entirely wrong.