And the NHS is actually expected to pay for this?

There but for the grace of God. I wouldn't specifically know the statistics relating to eating disorders but I do know that mental health care is grossly under-funded and this is a mental health issue. My heart goes out to the parents of this young girl who must have been absolutely fought with worry.
 
Wow, I didn't think there was such ignorance on Talk Photography.

I won't ask the OP to explain his position, just don't want to know.
 
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Applemuncher said:
There but for the grace of God. I wouldn't specifically know the statistics relating to eating disorders but I do know that mental health care is grossly under-funded and this is a mental health issue. My heart goes out to the parents of this young girl who must have been absolutely fought with worry.
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Indeed. There was a program on TV a while ago that documented how many young people were being separated from their families by several hundreds of miles because of lack of space and/or suitable local mental health facilities.

It's a disgrace.
 
You wonder what the family circumstances are. I know of one family that had the mother living in a motor van they bought so she could stay close, whilst the father returned to look after the rest of the family and work. Nearly broke the family apart, but the daughter is now well on the road to recovery.
 
boyfalldown said:
I really used to think humans were compassionate by default. Then I read tosh like you've posted. Whatever happened to you, you need serious help with
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Humans tend to be self-seeking - often extressed as cruelty - by default, and have to learn care and compassion. It would seem the OP is not a creationist because he clearly supports Darwinian selection.

On the upside - there was a bed available, although this is more likely a place in a long-term treatment centre, rather than a hospital bed in the classical sense where the patient is in & out in a week or so. Worth considering the cost implications of long-term residential care for this kind of illness.
 
Mr Bump said:
Its either people who cannot stop eating or thos who don't want to?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38121799
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Were you not espousing the virtues of Christianity at one point? Now you're showing a complete lack of compassion, talk about hypocrisy! Seems like you might be trolling for a reaction.

My sister suffered with Anorexia as a teenager, it's a terrible mental illness that can tear a family apart and you describe them as people who don't want to eat! It beggars belief, it really does.
 
fabs said:
Were you not espousing the virtues of Christianity at one point? Now you're showing a complete lack of compassion, talk about hypocrisy! Seems like you might be trolling for a reaction.

My sister suffered with Anorexia as a teenager, it's a terrible mental illness that can tear a family apart and you describe them as people who don't want to eat! It beggars belief, it really does.
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Sorry Marc, liking this post seems wrong somehow. But I couldn't agree more
 
neil_g said:
To be fair mental health issues are always on the receiving end of low tolerance.

Look at all the complaining when someone steps in front of a train and they get called selfish for holding up peoples journey etc.
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I am not so sure, in recent years this has become more 'socially acceptable' to admit to and there is a much better understanding. One of my previous employees suffered with depression and it was awful to see. A great guy who was one of the top performers out of 50 people had a very bad time of it for around 3 months, it felt like a family member was ill. Thankfully he got through it. In fact the worst thing about it is that its invisible in many ways.
 
In fact a lot of distress plus time and money could be saved if help was available straight away depression/anxiety/stress is suspected by a GP. The sufferer needs help then, not after being on a 12 week long waiting list.
Quite often the patient makes repeated visits to the GP and/or A&E with various symptoms both real and imagined plus numerous drugs and their associated side effects.
 
tijuana taxi said:
In fact a lot of distress plus time and money could be saved if help was available straight away depression/anxiety/stress is suspected by a GP. The sufferer needs help then, not after being on a 12 week long waiting list.
Quite often the patient makes repeated visits to the GP and/or A&E with various symptoms both real and imagined plus numerous drugs and their associated side effects.
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Even when you finally get your help you only get 12 sessions with a therapist. They barely scratched the service in that time.
 
Llamaman said:
You're an embarrassment to yourself and your (professed) faith.

Other posters have been remarkably restrained in their criticism. You're obnoxious, spiteful, petty, and staggeringly ignorant.
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Hmmm

A bit restrained there old boy....

I was tempted to wander through the Bible (New Testament) to find the bit where JC said

"Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of God belongs to such as these."

Trouble is the bit that says "Except the Obese and those suffering with Anorexia for the Kingdom is no place for those suffering with mental conditions....."

The OP must be very special being not just Pious but smug and sanctimonious too.
 
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To be fair mental health issues are always on the receiving end of low tolerance.

Look at all the complaining when someone steps in front of a train and they get called selfish for holding up peoples journey etc.
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Actually I know a train driver that had this happen, it badly affected his mental health, no longer drives train driver and took a long
time to come to terms with it, so although I realise a person with mental problems may see this as a quick solution, the long term effect on
others is profound
 
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I am not so sure, in recent years this has become more 'socially acceptable' to admit to and there is a much better understanding.
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respectfully I would disagree, there are many people still suffering in silence because of the stigma and lack of knowledge around mental health. and knowing the NHS in this situation the solution is often to throw drugs at the problem, because there is not the funding for specialised treatment and care. and the frontline GPs generally have not got a clue.

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Actually I know a train driver that had this happen, it badly affected his mental health, no longer drives train driver and took a long
time to come to terms with it, so although I realise a person with mental problems may see this as a quick solution, the long term effect on
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no disputing the effect of someone like a train driver.

however my point being whining about journey time when a family's world has just been blown apart (and the effect on someone like a train driver and those witnessing the event) is utterly selfish in itself.
 
There are some things the NHS shouldn't fund in my opinion....but this is not one of them.

Seems the consensus if that the NHS should be funding this.
 
I'm genuinely shocked that anyone would question this being NHS funded. Without help that girl could easily die. She's not just on a fad diet, she's seriously ill and cannot help but do what she's doing without treatment.

I was expecting to open the link and find this was for a boob job or something, not this.
 
NHS, National health service, correct me if i'm wrong but a service started and funded by contribution for the health and care of the populace, whether able to contribute or not ?
I don't think any health issue should be excluded for treatment and it all should be available locally and without any care for cost but that's furthering a debate for the 'Hot Topics' forum.
As is that horrible 'R' word that's been the cause of suffering for a couple of millennia.
 
Judging by this, our profoundly ignorant OP is happy to spread the BS, but unwilling to respond to the overwhelming number of replies to this thread.
 
This is from the Big Box thread but I didn't want to derail it any further.

Mr Bump said:
Actually I would rather people got treated for real diseases than self inflicted ones.
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Mr Bump said:
i stated my opionion and i stick by them i don't argue them.
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In other words, you state your opinions and then ignore any actual information that tells you that you may be wrong? That's not sticking by your opinions, that's just showing ignorance having a closed mind.

And thinking Anorexia is self inflicted is nothing other than moronic.
 
viv1969 said:
Judging by this, our profoundly ignorant OP is happy to spread the BS, but unwilling to respond to the overwhelming number of replies to this thread.
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Doesn't do arguing apparently. good at starting them though, then walking away.
Obviously knows he's not going to win this one.
 
I don't understand why anyone would deliberately provoke others knowing the outcome will be getting called a prat or worse.

Very peculiar thing to do
 
tijuana taxi said:
I don't understand why anyone would deliberately provoke others knowing the outcome will be getting called a prat or worse.

Very peculiar thing to do
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The Dorian Gray quote springs to mind which speaks of the same narcissistic attention seeking behaviour that most trolls indulge in:

“There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.”
 
Mr Bump said:
Its either people who cannot stop eating or thos who don't want to?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-38121799
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Yes, and rightly bloody so!

I'd even argue a case for the NHS to treat delusions of a man in the sky too. Mental illness has many many faces, and they all need society's compassion, understanding and more importantly ..... help.
 
Marcel said:
Yes, and rightly bloody so!

I'd even argue a case for the NHS to treat delusions of a man in the sky too. Mental illness has many many faces, and they all need society's compassion, understanding and more importantly ..... help.
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Because we know that taking a blanket approach to things always works so well. :(
 
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