numes
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Post by numes on Sept 23, 2007 17:05:54 GMT -5
hello! Thank you for this site. I'm very keen on Empress Elisabeth and I'd like to know more about her mental conditions because I don't think she was crazy but she only had some problems like depressions and restlessness because her wild and proud behaviour Moreover, she hated etiquette and aristocracy. I don't think she had anorexia because in the photos she doesn't seem too skinny and in fact she weighted 50 kg: she was slender, but not anorexic. What do you think?
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Post by linnie on Oct 12, 2007 17:59:22 GMT -5
I don't think that she was crazy, either. Today's psychiatrists might say that she had chronic depression, and I would believe it. She seemed to be travelling the world to avoid being where she was or where she was supposed to be. But she was happy nowhere. How many times Francis Josef has let her build a house somewhere in the hope that she would be happy there? She seemed to be the kind of person who wanted what she didn't have. She was royalty, but she wanted to be a commoner. Had she been a commoner, I am not sure that she would have been happy either, because her Empress status afforded her a standard of living that allowed her to travel. Most historians agree that she was what is called today anorexic, and I would tend to agree: the weird diet, the obsessive exercising, the care she took that her dresses show off her tiny waist, her horror of Queen Victoria's obesity seem to point in that direction.
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Post by numenorspa on Oct 30, 2007 12:57:29 GMT -5
No, I don't think she was anorexic, though very slender because the photos represet her as a woman not anorexic and she weighted 50 Kg, not much, but nowdays top models weight less kilos. And she something ate even cakes and ice-creams. She pursued the physical form and she wanted to be at top of her beauty. Maybe she had a form of mental anorexy. She was always unsatisfied, but not always depressed and sad. I think she was depressed at the beginnig of her marriage between 1854 and 1862 and after Rudolf's suicide. She had a melancholic character that was't caused only by external events, but even when she was a youn girl, she showed an introspective and lonely attidtude.
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Post by wowposter on Oct 28, 2008 6:47:19 GMT -5
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