out food can take place between parents and the sufferer. Dinner tables can become battlegrounds, and emotional struggle is always evident. To understand anorexia you must understand the person falling under its spell, it is not the fault of the person that they act that way, but the anorexia taking place of all the persons functioning. Strict daily schedules are commonly made. The "negative-mind," a phrase coined by Peggy Claude-Pierre, is a term used to describe the anorexic mind, fighting against the "actual mind," what the person is actually thinking and wants. The negative mind can become so powerful that the actual mind is minute in comparison. The person becomes totally under control of the negative mind. This can also be called Confirmed Negativity Condition, also a phrase coined by Mrs. Claude-Pierre. Self-hatred and other such things characterize CNC. Self-degradation and self-hurtful behavior are some things the negative mind influences. This is one theory for why the anorexic is reluctant and privately keeps from telling others about what they are going through. Anorexics also tend to be perfectionists, although not always, this is also a stereotype. It is the need for order in their lives that drive perfectionism. Depression also results from anorexia with the lack of social activity and self-imposed exclusion of friends and family. By doing that an anorexic can create a safe, non-judgmental island for them alone. Anorexics appear depressed and detached from everything and everyone around them. While that is true in most cases, some also seem to be very socially involved, popular, happy, smart, well off and "all together," but still they live in a private world of torment and anguish, which is not at all pleasant. I believe that the anorexic is the epitome of a caring, strong willed individual, but the inability for the anorexic to resist acceptance of responsibility for certain issues, turns these admi...
