Anorexics often have a distorted self-image perceiving themselves as overweight or imperfect in ways that are obsessive and not reflective of reality.

“Anorexics often will see themselves as overweight or imperfect in ways that are of an obsession for them, they'll think, oh, you know, their arms are a little bit fat, you know, or, you know, the contour, their face makes they don't like the pictures of themselves or they.”

“And the reason we know this is because of some really important and beautiful studies that were done in my colleague Jeremy Balinsson's lab at Stanford.”

“Anorexics often will see themselves as overweight or imperfect in ways that are of an obsession for them. In the case of the anorexic, the problem seems to be that they have a genuine distortion of their self-image. So much so that they don't actually see themselves accurately. Their visual perceptions are off.”

“In the case of the anorexic, the problem seems to be that they have a genuine distortion of their self-image. So much so that they don't actually see themselves accurately. Their visual perceptions are off.”