What do you think about anorexia and force feeding?!
Question: I'm writing an essay about this, and I need some good arguments and thoughts from both sides.
Answers: I'm writing an essay about this, and I need some good arguments and thoughts from both sides.
Anorexia has a component of mental illness. Like other mental illnesses, the illness can cause poor judgment which can then cause the patient to resist treatment. Also, anorexia can often strike the young, whom older family members have an obligation to nurture and protect. In some cases, involuntary treatment may be necessary in order to bring the patient back to a mental and physical state in which they can make sound decisions, just a parent may force a child to take a medicine that they would prefer not to take. If a person refuses food and has been diagnosed with anorexia, then they are, by definition, a "risk to themselves".
This said, the mere idea gives me the shudders. It borders on a violation a civil rights. On the other hand, watching a beloved family member grow ill and die and deciding not to help when we are aware of the cause and the cure is readily available, also give me the shudders.
I do believe that family members need more resources, including access to authority to enforce involuntary treatment, with checks and balances, of course, to help their mentally ill family members, such as anorexics and schizophrenics.
It's a horrible choice, and a slippery, slippery slope.
Dr. Sam Vaknin has an essay that you might find interesting, that explores the concept of "rights" as they relate to life and death. It can be found here http://samvak.tripod.com/life.html. You have to scroll down to see the actual essay.
I think force feeding an annorexic is very wrong. People who are anorexic have severe issus and distorted views about food, force feeding will just make this a lot worse, the psychological issues need to be addressed as soon as possible, a long side the physical issues that come with being anorexic.
Well i'm afraid my friend is going to turn anorexic soon. She doesn't eat.. at all. She stays skinny for her boyfriend. and i've had an anorexic friend as well who was so ill she was hospitalized for christmas.
I think that its not really force feeding them if you get my point, its helping them to stay alive. Its not like your shoving the food down their throat because I know that they can't eat alot even if they wanted to.
well i dont like the idea of both things. anorexia is obviously NOT good for you and it causes a ton of other problems. bad teeth, esphogous diseases, stomach lining problems, ect. But its a big thing now a days because you see all these super skinny celebrities all over the tv and magazines and crap.. people should just love the way they are, and if they dont like a certain part of them, they shouldnt go to the extreme of killing their bodies, they should exersice (but not too much either)
force feeding also goes along with anorexia. Some people who are just born with the extra skinny genes constantly eat unhealthy foods to fatten up so people dont think they've got an eating disorder (when really they do because they're force feeding themselves) But this can cause problems down the road as well. If your not hungry...dont eat
im in anatomy.. so i know the effects these things have on bodies
I think it's ridiculous and shows authority of the state over the individual. Have you ever seen them grab an extremely overweight person, lock him or her up, and starve them down to a "healthy" weight? No, because they'd be up in arms about it. But watch someone stop eating and fall below a healthy weight (rather than above) and here come the body police. Whose body is it, anyway? It's sick.
I've seen them force feed protestors, whose entire point was to draw attention to their cause. I don't care how many times someone says it's in that person's best interest - it's about control.
I think if they are hospitalized and are in danger of dying and can barely sustain life, then it is the duty of the doctor to keep them alive, they would use a feeding tube. It is a slow suicide, and that is something that we can not sit back and allow.
But on the flip side, Anorexia is a serious disorder and force feeding them is not going to fix the root of the problem. It goes much deeper than food, starvation just so happens to be their drug of choice. There are deep underlying issues that can need to be worked out , they need counseling, maybe even a treatment center. If parents are yelling at their daughter to eat , it is not going to make her "non-anorexic"
I believe that force feeding is necessary when someone is barely able to stay alive because of the anorexia.
If people were not force fed many lives would be lost because of the disease.