What Would George Carlin Say About This

Posted: October 27th, 2010 | Author: Dr. Bill Stillwell | No Comments »

Many years ago, on a George Carlin HBO Special, he did a routine on
“Anorexia,” which I found very funny. I’m talking about anorexia
nervosa, which along with bulimia, is an eating disorder.

Carlin’s take on anorexia was that it was a “wealthy white woman’s
disease,” or what he called a “look at me” disease. He stated that
no one who was poor had ever heard of the disease and also that it
was very rare, outside the United States. He thought that the
disease was confined to snotty white teenage girls, who didn’t have
anything better to do than throw up, look in the mirror and worry
about how they looked.

Last week on the news, I saw a new trend, called drunkorexia, which
combines eating very little, throwing up and drinking alcohol, again
involving the same social group. I had actually heard about this
before, from friends who had daughters in college. One guy related a
story his daughter told him about some of her friends, who had read
the book Skinny Bitch, and who were actively trying to imitate the
example.

One of the girls would only eat lettuce. Another would only eat a
small plate of cheese nachos. Another ate only ice cream bars. But
they would drink alcohol by the bucket and they threw up all the
time, like it was a regular body function. They were all obsessed
with their size and one went into a full blown panic because she had
grown to a size 2. It wasn’t the least bit unusual to find them
asleep on the toilet, in bars.

All these kids had gone to private schools and their parents had
plenty of money. All of them were considered to be very bright. So
why the crazy behavior? And what would our dearly departed friend
make of it?

Carlin would probably say it was nothing a good caning couldn’t fix,
or maybe a trip to a place where food wasn’t so abundant. Or cars,
credit cards and clubs. Say, maybe, sub Saharan Africa, where it
takes a while to learn to coexist with flies. And millions of other
bugs.

What I can tell you is that combining different forms of addiction
is a double death wish. Anybody who participates in this form of
behavior needs medical attention and strong medical attention. A
woman I know struggled with bulimia for 15 years, before getting the
upper hand. She finally saw the light when she was told by a doctor
in the hospital to put her affairs in order, because she would be
dead by Sunday. His entire visit took less than two minutes and he
didn’t hand hold, ask for explanations, or want to know about her
previous therapies. His parting shot was that he only had time for
patients that wanted to live and that if she made it past Sunday,
she could schedule an appointment.

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I’ll be back tomorrow with more.

With my best wishes for your optimum health,

Dr. Bill

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