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Anyone ever know of an adult over 40 who has anorexia?
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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 594813" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>I'm not sure of their exact ages but I've known two people who were anorexic. I would guess that both were in their late 30's, possibly even 40, but I don't know for sure. One was a girl I worked with at the prison for several years. She had some very serious issues although I've lost track of her and have no idea how she is now. She was a nice girl, the kind you automatically watch your language around, and very obsessive and precise about her work. She was very, <u>very</u> thin. She never talked about being on a diet but we hardly ever saw her eat anything either. She would get up at 3:30-4:00 am every morning so she could clean her already spotless house. When she came to work in the morning she would go straight to the prison clinic and weigh herself on the big scale they have there. The nurses were very concerned for her. Her "lunch" would be a few leaves of lettuce in a sandwich bag. She was married and desperately wanted children but was so emaciated that it didn't happen. She finally allowed herself to gain a few pounds and got pregnant and a year or so later gained a little weight again, had a second child, then right back to the lettuce leaves. She went on to a very responsible well paying job with another state agency and apparently went right off the deep end! We heard that she had left her husband and kids, was running around with a lot of men, eventually lost her job. If you knew this girl, that all was completely out of character for her!</p><p></p><p>The other was a young man I worked with at the newspaper in Florida. He seemed very nice but none of us really knew him very well. He was a proofreader who worked nights so we mostly just saw him in passing - he would be coming in to work as we were leaving. You could tell that he was <em>extremely</em> thin but he always wore big heavy sweatshirts to work ... in Florida! He was unmarried and lived alone. And not too long before I left there to move to Tennessee, we heard that he had died! None of us had any idea that he was that bad. We just thought he was a very slim young guy but apparently under those heavy sweatshirts he was just skin and bones! They said that he never really allowed himself to eat anything! No solid food at all! He kept cans of evaporated milk in his apartment and when he absolutely had to, he would drink a little of that to get a bit of energy again. It wasn't that he couldn't afford food. The newspaper didn't pay all that well but it certainly would have been enough to eat on. It was a real shock to find out that someone we saw every day was in that desperate condition and we didn't know, didn't even have a clue</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 594813, member: 1883"] I'm not sure of their exact ages but I've known two people who were anorexic. I would guess that both were in their late 30's, possibly even 40, but I don't know for sure. One was a girl I worked with at the prison for several years. She had some very serious issues although I've lost track of her and have no idea how she is now. She was a nice girl, the kind you automatically watch your language around, and very obsessive and precise about her work. She was very, [U]very[/U] thin. She never talked about being on a diet but we hardly ever saw her eat anything either. She would get up at 3:30-4:00 am every morning so she could clean her already spotless house. When she came to work in the morning she would go straight to the prison clinic and weigh herself on the big scale they have there. The nurses were very concerned for her. Her "lunch" would be a few leaves of lettuce in a sandwich bag. She was married and desperately wanted children but was so emaciated that it didn't happen. She finally allowed herself to gain a few pounds and got pregnant and a year or so later gained a little weight again, had a second child, then right back to the lettuce leaves. She went on to a very responsible well paying job with another state agency and apparently went right off the deep end! We heard that she had left her husband and kids, was running around with a lot of men, eventually lost her job. If you knew this girl, that all was completely out of character for her! The other was a young man I worked with at the newspaper in Florida. He seemed very nice but none of us really knew him very well. He was a proofreader who worked nights so we mostly just saw him in passing - he would be coming in to work as we were leaving. You could tell that he was [I]extremely[/I] thin but he always wore big heavy sweatshirts to work ... in Florida! He was unmarried and lived alone. And not too long before I left there to move to Tennessee, we heard that he had died! None of us had any idea that he was that bad. We just thought he was a very slim young guy but apparently under those heavy sweatshirts he was just skin and bones! They said that he never really allowed himself to eat anything! No solid food at all! He kept cans of evaporated milk in his apartment and when he absolutely had to, he would drink a little of that to get a bit of energy again. It wasn't that he couldn't afford food. The newspaper didn't pay all that well but it certainly would have been enough to eat on. It was a real shock to find out that someone we saw every day was in that desperate condition and we didn't know, didn't even have a clue [/QUOTE]
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