Posted: Jan 17, 2012 2:14 pm
Median wrote: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?
That's more or less the case. About the only caveat would be that anorexics who refuse to eat whilst hospitalized could be counted as refusing treatment. Still, so long as they don't mind temporarily putting on a few pounds, they'd be allowed to lose it again when no longer under medical supervision, regardless of the likely consequences. You certainly don't have to look hard to find stories from people who have done precisely that in order to escape psychiatric treatment.