When I don’t eat enough, I get low blood sugar and I find it hard to concentrate and function enough to do anything. And that’s just from skipping a meal, let alone if I hadn’t eaten for days or was subsisting for years on a very small amount of calories. When I see anorexic people in movies or books, they seem to have enough energy to exercise compulsively, go to school or work, and other things. Is it that their eating disorder gives them anxiety and that makes them more energetic? Or does your body just get used to not eating and functions fine after a while?
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Very, very poorly. They really only appear like they have the energy to go to school/work because they have to. Life doesn’t stop because you feel awful. You don’t go to work, you’ll lose your job, and your house, you’ll lose access to therapy or medical attention if you are receiving it, etc. It’s very common to have symptoms though like exhaustion, mood swings, etc
And with compulsive exercise, I think it’s kind of in the name – compulsive. It’s not something the person necessarily want to do, it’s something their brain is telling them they have to do, even if it hurts them.
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