I don't think so.
These illnesses continue to be viewed as kind of pseudo-illnesses, that they're not real conditions, in spite of their enormous mortality rates and the rates of suffering that these people endure.
The illnesses occur right across the board. The patient we admitted yesterday is homeless and in a shelter. That's where she is, and she has wicked anorexia nervosa. The notion that these illnesses are confined to higher socio-economic groups is absolutely untrue. That's an outdated theory that goes back 50 years and has been disproved over and over again.
The notion that families or mothers cause this illness has been disproved endlessly. My master's degree research was in family functioning and eating disorders. The family functioning improves when you treat the eating disorder. The theory at the time was that it would get worse as you took away the eating symptoms and uncovered the family pathology. Families still get a bad rap for this, unfortunately. There's absolutely no evidence to support that's the case.
We keep working away at it. I will go to talk to anybody, at any time, about this, but I'm afraid that these discriminatory attitudes continue to persist.