they can find a fold of skin and say this is not

他们只要发现皮肤有褶皱就会说
--this isn't the way it should be, this isn't right,

不该这样这是不对的
so they'll focus on a part of their bodies

他们只关注身体的一部分
and say this isn't right,

然后说这可不行
I need to keep losing weight or I can't stand to gain any.

我要坚持减肥或者说我接受不了体重上升
Women with anorexia nervosa don't have regular menstrual cycles.

患神经性厌食症的女性月经周期都不规律
Those are the core criteria, the official criteria,

这些是核心标准也是正式的标准
but what they don't do very well is

但有一点做得不够好
give you a sense of what this disorder is like.

那就是不能让你感觉这种疾病究竟是怎样
What I'm going to do is spend a few minutes

我接下来就要花几分钟
reading from a letter that I got,

来读一封三十多年前的信
to date myself over thirty years ago

那时我在布朗克斯区的蒙特费奥雷医院