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JON RAPPOPORT

But people being obsessed with food doesn’t mean their behavior is a mental disorder. The behavior isn’t an “it.” It isn’t a THING.

It’s just behavior.

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) Climate change and gun ownership disorders are on the list. If it’s a progressive cause and has a chemical treatment it’s in the D$M. Like war, it keeps all the right people bu$y.

https://jonrappoport.substack.com/p/the-latest-bullshit-mental-disorder

It’s called orthorexia. Or orthorexia nervosa.

Well, it’s a proposed disorder. Advocates have so far failed to get it listed in the official bible of the American Psychiatric Association.

Orthorexia is defined as an obsession for eating healthy pure food.

It can lead to social isolation, because those afflicted can’t find anything to munch at parties. They also tend to show disgust when in the vicinity of impure food.

When the obsession reaches great height, profound weight loss and even death can result.

Proponents of the “disorder” tend to talk like this: “Orthorexia is caused by a combination of underlying genetic predisposition and environmental factors…”

As if they knew anything about supposed genetic reasons for anything. When in doubt, when bloviating, cite genetics.

Well, we’ve all known “orthorexia” people. They have super-strict standards for food. They’re cranky. They tend to go on unexpected sudden rants against food they consider “unclean.”

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