Anorexia is not about refeeding the patient. It's about learning to articulate your feelings and accept that unhappiness and anger and anxiety are normal parts of life. In all cases, modern anorexics medieval saints, like I say these are girls resisting adult womanhood. And they didn't want to be a teenager. They wanted out of the life that their parents had laid out for them by restricting their food. This was seen as the only way they could control their lives.