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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just learned a friend is anorexic. 
And I’ve learned there was a lot of lying about the past.  (Unexplained absences, many doctor visits, hospital stays, etc.)

Personality is very consistent with many other anorexics.

How many people have been able to maintain a functional relationship with an anorexic, whether a work or family or friend relationship?

I’ve heard it’s much like borderline personality disorder.[/quote]

It sounds like you are attributing or correlating a lot of your friend's negative personality attributes directly to anorexia rather than perhaps saying or seeing that they performed a function for her.   People with addictions in general (not just anorexics, but all kinds of addicts) lie a lot.  In order to maintain a facade of normality.  It's not specific to anorexia.  Neither is anorexia specifically correlated to BPD.  Studies show that starvation brings on or manifests a host of psychiatric symptoms.  That is, starvation itself will cause any normal person to behave irrationally.  So it's impossible to say whether the BPD was there or not.

OP, if you don't want to be bothered, then drop your friend.  You don't sound like a compassionate or particularly nice person.[/quote]

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