What are the root causes of an eating disorder?
i have an eating disorder so ill fill you in and how mine started – have people tell you that you arnt good enough – that your ugly and worthless and no one will ever love you – abusive relationship at the age of 15 – after words having a bad self image – eating more because you didnt know how to cope – gaining weight and then having people call you fat – realizing that you are fat and worthless and everything else – then realizing that you need to be perfect because you never were – and BAM eating disorder hope this helped good luck and merry christmas
I have purging disorder (like bulimia without the binge eating). The causes differ from person to person, but I can offer the reasons for mine: -Tourette’s/OCD which leads to compulsive behaviour to combat anxiety -Perfectionism/control issues -Stress response -Abusive family relationships Mine’s not actually that much about weight, and I’m neither under nor overweight, though I do tend to lose a lot of weight if I get caught up in it for too long at a time.
There’s no one cause that influences an individual to develop an Eating Disorder. What was once thought to be an affluent, white, young female’s “drug of choice” is now known to cross gender, wealth, social status, race, country, religion, age and upbringing. No longer can we fit the many facets of disordered eating into a neat little box; as more and more people begin seeking help, we’re finding that there is no easy answer to the question: what causes an Eating Disorder? Disordered eating is a way of coping with emotions and situations, both internal and external, that the person is not equip to handle on their own. Similar to a drug addiction, the use, or lack of use, of food is the vice that helps them survive; they depend entirely on their obsession with their body to numb the things in which they cannot deal with. Our society helps to encourage the belief that obsessing about our appearance and the food we eat is not only normal, but admired. Anorexics revel in the attention they
