Draco Dei
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First off: A good point to bring up. The fact that I am going to spend the rest of this post questioning the conclusion should be taken as a *compliment*. A search for Truth requires questioning a lot of things (some would say 'everything') and the words of a fool are rarely worth investigating. Thus investigation indicates I hold your statement NOT to be a foolish one.
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Oddly enough, it I **WONDER** if it actually causes an **increase** in the problems? Some mental illnesses etc. are oddly-culture specific, and so I wonder if there is a bit of real world "memetic hazard"... (meaning just knowing about something can place one at risk).
Even if that can occur with psychological problems in general I would imagine that it would **not** actually be a significant factor in anorexia nervosa. Plenty of idolization of hyper-skinny (and airbrushing of even supermodel photos from what I hear) to possibly account for the existence of the phenomenon all on its own.
I know basically zilch about the hypothesis I proposed above, but it does seem like something that would be worth checking into if one was going to be active on such issues. Professional journals articles of psychology have probably be written on the subject, and while reading them directly might not be necessary, that level of intense study, by MULTIPLE people, with INDEPENDANT CONFIRMATION from separate pools of raw data should be a step in the chain of information.
These are the sorts of "so obvious it has to be true" assumptions that can utterly wreck societies...
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I would think that the message in the show might tend to be more about "if your parents are abusing you, tell a police officer" (Hitch and/or Zipp in this case) or just a trusted friend (who should then tell the authorities IRL)? That seems a bit of a PR risk for Hasbro to introduce than anorexia.
First off: A good point to bring up. The fact that I am going to spend the rest of this post questioning the conclusion should be taken as a *compliment*. A search for Truth requires questioning a lot of things (some would say 'everything') and the words of a fool are rarely worth investigating. Thus investigation indicates I hold your statement NOT to be a foolish one.
Disclaimer out of the way:
Oddly enough, it I **WONDER** if it actually causes an **increase** in the problems? Some mental illnesses etc. are oddly-culture specific, and so I wonder if there is a bit of real world "memetic hazard"... (meaning just knowing about something can place one at risk).
Even if that can occur with psychological problems in general I would imagine that it would **not** actually be a significant factor in anorexia nervosa. Plenty of idolization of hyper-skinny (and airbrushing of even supermodel photos from what I hear) to possibly account for the existence of the phenomenon all on its own.
I know basically zilch about the hypothesis I proposed above, but it does seem like something that would be worth checking into if one was going to be active on such issues. Professional journals articles of psychology have probably be written on the subject, and while reading them directly might not be necessary, that level of intense study, by MULTIPLE people, with INDEPENDANT CONFIRMATION from separate pools of raw data should be a step in the chain of information.
These are the sorts of "so obvious it has to be true" assumptions that can utterly wreck societies...
.
.
.
I would think that the message in the show might tend to be more about "if your parents are abusing you, tell a police officer" (Hitch and/or Zipp in this case) or just a trusted friend (who should then tell the authorities IRL)? That seems a bit of a PR risk for Hasbro to introduce than anorexia.