not-a-single-fuck:

comcastkills:

I wish there was more discussion on how eating disorders in children can be a result of abuse. My parents thought I was just anorexic because I hated my body, but it turned out I just wanted some sort of control over the chaos in my home, and a way to draw attention to my suffering.

One of the issues with eating disorders is that it actually very often results from abuse, exactly for the reason you named. With how dieting is seen as this act of self control and discipline, it’s very easy for individuals craving that to resort to abusing exercise or weight loss. Chemically, under-eating and over eating relieve anxiety, as do other self harming behaviors so really, it should be seen as a symptom of a bigger problem, cause that’s what it is, but the popular view of eating disorders is as being an isolated result of poor self image on women caused by the media and peer pressure.

Probably after Karen Carpenter’s anorexia related death– which started the public interest in eating disorders, there came an association with the media and the female image, which definitely contributes, but they’ve tried to isolate eating disorders as stemming only from self image, when really? these cultural factors are more of a “push” than a source and do more to dictate what kind of self harming behavior someone might exhibit rather than being the cause of it.

It’s extremely common for individuals to have eating disorders fueled by religious beliefs ala Catherine of Siena who saw fasting as purifying (which of course many religious believe), it’s common for victims of CSA to exhibit it in order to feel control over their own bodies, or for it to come from people with OCD… 

What I’m getting to is that this view of eating disorders as being something solely associated with women suffering from poor self image is simply detrimental as it rarely offers consideration for other possibilities and even more harmful, ignores that there’s always a core problem. You can’t treat eating disorders without treating what caused them.

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