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Re: When you first got Anorexia - August 3rd 2011, 10:20 AM
I was diagnosed with anorexia, and to be honest I don't think anyone CHOOSES to have the mental illness, you are either going to get it or not. You cannot really choose it.

However, I could say it was my choice to stop eating...because I chose not to eat to sort out other problems in my life, BUT those thoughts were not made rationally and by the time I 'chose' not to eat, I had already been hit with the illness.

I don't know if I am making a lot of sense, but anyone who chooses not to eat for a prolonged period of time and becomes anorexia as a result of that choice...didn't choose anorexia. A person who does not have anorexia, or who isn't 'destined' to get anorexia, will not try and starve themselves.
Anyone who wishes to be anorexic, is mentally ill because that is not a rational decision to make.