Posted: Jan 17, 2012 12:55 pm
Matt_B wrote:Median wrote:Yes, he's lived a long time because he got physical treatment. However, if someone who is starving themselves has a life threatening emergency they can't just go to a regular hospital and get an IV. They are also forced to into getting psych treatment. If someone has a life threatening emergency from eating too much (unconscious or whatever) they can just go to a regular hospital for treatment and psych treatment is not mandatory. They are both in life threatening emergencies, so saying the difference is one of emergency doesn't make sense.
That's simply not the case. If, after receiving emergency medical treatment, an anorexic is fit enough to leave hospital they're free to go. It's only in cases where potentially life-saving treatment is refused that sectioning would be considered; it really is a means of last resort, and often comes too late to save many people as it is.
So anorexics can eat as little as they want until they die, just as long as they follow the doctors advice such as taking a pill or getting an IV? Just like the morbidly obese can eat as much as they want until they die, just as long as they follow the doctors advice to get a heart transplant and take pills?