Most people have very little knowledge of the growing number of people who are suffering. I would give statistics but really an eating disorder is an eating disorder and the number of people suffering is exactly that and it's just as real without a person added to the growing statistic. That's just my opinion.
Now onto the topic i want to start of the week with: Alzheimer's and eating disorder research. How Alzheimer's exceeds societal support. My mom, my aunt and I went to a movie Still Alice and it was about a mother who has Alzheimer's disease and how it's devastating affects not only affect the sufferer but the loved ones that are involved in that persons life. Watching this show really opened my eyes and really made it known that no matter how severe of debilitating the disease is you can never really grasp the severity physically, mentally and emotionally without going through it yourself or actually having a visual of what it looks and feels like to the sufferer and the loved ones, you can't really understand how devastating it is.
The reason why i know this is because last year during a test i had a para read a test to me and we were talking about Alzheimer's (i'm not really sure how it came up) and she was saying how someone in her family recently got diagnosed with the disease and i obviously thought it was sad but now looking back i didn't really understand until having such an intense visual understanding like this movie. The reason why i'm talking about Alzheimer's is because I heard somewhere that Alzheimer's has more money for research than eating disorders and i looked for statistics and couldn't find any regarding both of them but it is a fact.
Which after watching this movie i kind of understand why because when you get diagnosed with the disease nothing can be done no treatment, no cure, nothing but with eating disorders there are many treatment centers and therapy and mental health services as well as some medications that help suppress urges but also i feel like it's somewhat unfair not on purpose but because of the lack of awareness. There is one thing they do have in common and that is both disease have possible genetic predispositions and that's absolutely devastating. Is Alzheimer's more serious? More severe? I would say yes but that doesn't take away the fact that eating disorders are as well are brain oriented and deserve research to make the treatment centers better and to possibly find a gene that is curable for both of them.
Feel free to leave comments down below and let me know what you think, i will be doing these all week so stay tuned!
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