Anorexia Poster Women Dies
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Anorexia poster women who became an international symbol has died. Isabella Caro aged 28 apparently died in November 2010, but her family wanted her death kept private.
http://www.stylelist.com/2010/12/29/anorexia-poster-woman-isabelle-caro-dies-at-28/
http://www.stylelist.com/2010/12/29/anorexia-poster-woman-isabelle-caro-dies-at-28/
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Apparently she died of 'respiratory disease'... it's a horrible reminder of what anorexia does to people much wider physically than make them abnormally thin, and affects recoverers for the rest of their lives even when they are making progress with eating.
I know, I find it hard to understand as well. At least she is free of her demons now.
So sad
I know it's a mental illness and I shouldn't say this but I cant help just thinking....''Silly women''. It's an illness I struggle to understand, thank godness!
Eating disorders still aren't treated that seriously by society, though anorexia is like the cancer of eating disorders and gets more attention than the far bigger problem (in terms of the numbers suffering from it) of over-eating.
That's true, there was a report on my local news the other week about a male who suffered anorexia, I can't remember what the statistics were but there a lot of male sufferers but quite often it gets overshadowed by the female cases and there's not much of an issue made about it.
This reminds me of Karen Carpenter, I have her film. Heartbreaking really
I appreciate its hard to understand but it does run much deeper than 'dieting'. I had always had a normal healthy relationship with food and went on a run of the mill diet (salad etc). I don't remember why or at what point it changed and became out of my control. I just know that it did and that I will never have a normal outlook on food and weight again. Its as if my mind has just been changed irreversibly.
The thing I miss most (sounds quite bizarre but I do have moments when I miss my more extreme years with the illness) isnt the weight loss as Im still quite slim now, but the control element of it. The feeling of superiority I guess that you have such willpower to do such a thing. Its much, much more than losing weight.
Some 30 plus years ago I lived with a woman who had an eating disorder. At one point after we broke up she weighed about 5 stone half her 'normal' weight. It broke my heart to see her.
She was; is; super intelligent and your post gives me some insight into what might have driven her.
Anyway she somehow learned to cope if not recover and she married and has a family. Was just reading a very funny letter from her when I saw this thread actually.
Did anyone see this programme on BDD
It's so sad that Ruth couldn't see how beautiful she really is.
It is a mental illness just like any other and sadly a slow form of suicide. More than sad it's tragic. Poor poor woman, mental illness is as real as any other we just don't understand ti well enough yet.
RIP your poor lady.
Your story sounds almost identical to mine - although I have to say I found anorexia 'easier' to deal with than bulimia. When I had anorexia I felt in control, when I had bulimia I felt the exact opposite.
Quite strange really, as I was watching a CBS interview with this lady on youtube earlier.
It seems that men are increasingly suffering from ED too.
People, including those within the medical profession, are also, in general, very unsypmathetic and even cruel toward obesity sufferers. Anorexia is treated with a much more "softly softly" approach...why can't they both be treated as equal? Both are disoders that destory people, but one is held up as being more worthy of understanding than the other.
Yes, because in the long run, it's surely far healthier to be obese than it is to be dangerously underweight. Would that not explain why anorexics and bulimics get more attention?
It's not that they get "more attention", it's that people are more willing to understand anorexia than they are obesity. I think a little more understanding and compassion toward the obsese might go a long way. Instead, people seem happy enough to just brand obsese people as lazy and disgusting and behave in very unsupportive ways that just further add to the problem.
I can only imagine that binge eating is just as awful. The whole "not having control" scenario, must be scary.
It's really sad.
And I'd like to hope her story will be a lesson to others but it seems like once this illness grips people, it rarely lets go.