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.