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Quilts will be rded as prizes Anorexia Victims The November trip is a football drill competition be held in Pocatello ida. at the Minidome Anyone DEAR READERS: Several months ago I told you of a recovered anorexia nervosa(the “starvation disease"’) victim who hoped to start a national Anorexic Aid Society Letters from sufferers, their families and friends poured in, all showing a desperate need for communication about this frightening psychological disorder which turns people (mostly young, mostly female) into walking skeletons, and, left untreated, can cause their death. interested in to find self - acceptance. “But personally I was a child, not wanting to grow up andtake on the body and mind of an adult woman.” She “stayed small" by dieting. It took two years of intensive psychotherapy to help Pat accept herself. Perhaps then our daughter would realize she has an ilJness that can be cured For Halloween Better Watch Out As she found more constructive ways of You better watch out on Halloween eating problems lessened. She encourages anorexics “to seek counsel- You better look out for wide-eyed bats Il be watchin’ you dealing with emotional conflict, her DEAR HELEN If only we could talk to someone who has been through anorexia! ing, to throw away their scales and calorie counters, to start concentrating on emotions and learn to relax those tight controls. “Under-eating — a starvation course — is not the cause of anorexia," she adds. ‘It is only a symptom which br- } for witches and their brew t beware of goblins and ghosts he moon is high s when the wind whips up her speed =: es and cats fly by LaVerde Morgan Clayson ings the girl’s emotional problems to ‘She shows the classic symptoms: A light.” perfectionist with high intelligence, she sets herself unrealistic goals (and often she achieved them). But her will to “get thin’ has ruinedherlife. She eats tims or former victims and their families. To receive a copy, please cle starts again. Her weight has drop- costs) to PATRICIA HOWE, Anorexic ped from 120 to 84 pounds(she's nearly Aid, P.O. 43229. 5 feet 5), her periods have stopped, yet when the doctortells her she must eat or she'll get verysick, she goes to great lengths fooling him — and us. She has consented to psychiatric counseling (she realizes things aren’t right with her life, and starvation is only one of the symptoms, though she insists she isn't too thin). But if she could talk or write to a recovered anorexic. her progress might be much faster Please put us in touch with the young woman who hopes to form an Anorexic Aid Society! — ANOTHER DISTRAUGHT PA! \T All the anorexia nervosa correspondence has been forwarded to Patricia Howe of Columbus, Ohio, who, with the advice and assistance of experts, including three psychiatrists, is getting her nonprofit Aid Society un- derway send 75 cents (for postage and printing Box 29461, Columbus, Ohio Got a problem? An adult subject for discussion? 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