Why do teenage girls generally have such a high rate of eating disorders?
Eating disorders can affect people of all age groups and genders but eating disorders do often develop in the adolescent years. Eating disorders can often develop in teenage girls as a result of other deeper psychological and social issues. The bombardment of media images to look a certain way can also add to a sense of insecurity, low self esteem and negative body image. For some adolescents, an eating disorder can initially develop from a feeling that if they can control their weight or eating they will feel better about themselves. Some however, can take this to the extreme and the eating disorder starts to control their behaviours and becomes an overwhelming force in their lives. (Some of the answers to the previous question apply here as well). Eating disorders are generally a person’s way of coping with a situation or emotions that they feel they have no control over. An eating disorder is usually not about food or eating. Controlling food or weight, however, can become a coping
