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Sammy G said:
I'm not surprised at all. I mean, anorexia's major symptom (not getting proper nutrition, or any nutrition) is kinda immediately life-threatening, whereas deaths associated with other mental illnesses are almost invariably suicides.

Maybe it's because fewer people recognise it as a 'mental illness'. I dunno. Also, take into account that most of the people who suffer from it badly enough to be diagnosed are in a very bad way to begin with. There are millions more out there with less severe eating disorders who either manage to survive or never get diagnosed, so the death rate among those who are diagnosed will be artificially high.
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Nah -the majority of the deaths are suicides :/. Imagine starving yourself to the point of death (in the outsiders point of view) - then taking your life by another means !
 
That too.

I recall a massive fuss over it in the nineties, but not much since. Yet fatties are all over the place.

Bearlove said:
Nah -the majority of the deaths are suicides :/. Imagine starving yourself to the point of death (in the outsiders point of view) - then taking your life by another means !
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I thought suicides only accounted for around 20% of the deaths? Still frightening, don't get me wrong.
 
Bearlove said:
Nah -the majority of the deaths are suicides :/. Imagine starving yourself to the point of death (in the outsiders point of view) - then taking your life by another means !
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I'm sure many coroners would take the view that starving yourself to death is suicide though.
 
No, I didn't mean like that - just wondering about the way the result of highest suicide rate was arrived at and the fact the way coroners record things is important.

A lot was talked about the low mortality rate from heart disease in mediterranean countries and so 'the mediterranean diet' was hailed as the answer- turns out a lot of that data was based on the fact coroners in a lot of those countries used to record any deaths post a certain age as being attributed only to 'old age'.
 
Surely that would depend on the nutritional value of the cals. either way bollocks to that. although i'd do that if i was a fat mess
 
Exactly. And there's no pleasure worth giving up for an extra 10-20 years shitting yourself, ga-ga in a nursing home.
 
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