Rachael Farrokh
Anorexia is a serious eating disorder where sufferers of the 
    disease starve themselves to look thin, often sending them to an 
    early grave via malnutrition and organ failure. People seeking 
    to take control of their lives, albeit in the wrong manner, view 
    starvation as the answer, but it initiates a negative 
    nutritional pattern many find difficult to break. It becomes a 
    negative compulsion with the brain stuck in a dangerous pattern.
    An actress in California, Rachael Farrokh, is an anorexic on 
    the cusp of death, having starved herself down to an emaciated 
    frame of 40-pounds. Farrokh suffers from dysmorphia, where she 
    sees her body image in the incorrect manner, which led to 
    anorexia nervosa. Farrokh is stating several hospitals, with the 
    exception of one, have informed her she is "too skinny to 
    treat."
    Hospitals or medical facilities should be endowed with the 
    legal right to obtain court approval to force feed anorexics in 
    danger of death, via a judicial order enabling them to detain 
    anorexia suffers for weeks, to facilitate the necessary weigh 
    gain to save their lives. High calorie liquid infusions, packed 
    with vitamins and minerals, properly administered over the 
    course of weeks, would be beneficial in returning anorexics to 
    good health.
    The government can buy bombs and others weapons of war 
    costing billions of dollars, but give insufficient attention to 
    the health care and nutritional needs of the homeless or 
    helpless such as anorexics. The government's priorities are all 
    wrong. Taxpayers' money could go to more useful and socially 
    beneficial endeavors, such as helping people in need.
    
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Dying anorexic actress, 37, who 
    weighs approximately 40 pounds, makes heart-wrenching video plea 
    for help as hospitals say she is 'too skinny to treat' 
Published: 21:50 EST, 20 May 2015 | Updated: 07:20 EST, 21 
    May 2015 - At five-foot-seven, she weighs a mere '40-something 
    pounds' and is close to death. Now, Rachael Farrokh, from 
    Southern California, is begging the public to help save her 
    life. The 37-year-old actress, who has been battling anorexia 
    nervosa for more than 10 years, has released a video on YouTube 
    describing her fight against the life-threatening eating 
    disorder.
    In the footage, she explains how her condition has severely 
    declined in recent months, leaving her emaciated, breathless and 
    too weak to move around on her own at her San Clemente home. She 
    also reveals how her husband, Ron Edmondson, has had to quit his 
    job to become her 24-hour caregiver, while area hospitals won't 
    treat her because her 'dangerous' weight makes her a 
    'liability'.
    'There's one hospital across the country that can help, and 
    my chances are very slim. We need your help,' a gaunt-looking Ms 
    Farrokh says in the video, asking viewers to donate 'anything 
    you can'. Sitting on a couch with a pink hooded top covering her 
    tiny frame, Ms Farrokh, begins the video by saying: 'I need your 
    help. I'm suffering from an eating disorder. It's a very severe 
    kind of anorexia.'
    Struggling to get her words out, she continues: 'I've been 
    suffering from this for quite a while now. I'm 
    five-[foot]-seven, 40-something pounds and no hospitals will 
    even take me at this point.