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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.
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Well, it's literally that their brain, as it relates to perceptions, visual perceptions in particular, they're completely off.
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.
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.
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.