Eating Disorders

You should write about the psychological aspect of eating disorders. Obviously the reason people that are anorexic is because being skinny is what the media/televison/movies portray as beautiful so people strive to be like what they perceive to be just that. Have you heard of body dysmorphic disorder? People actually see themselves as being overweight when to other people they are actually really skinny therefore they just keep pushing it to be skinnier and skinnier. Bulimia generally starts out as just an easy short cut to eat whatever you want and not get fat. Bud what people don't realize how reinforcing it is as a behavioral function and they body starts to get used to it and it gets out of hand. They can literally throw up on command without even having to put their fingers down there throat. Also it's hard to spot a bulimic person because they generally aren't as skinny as you would think. The body will go into starvation mode and start to store everything you eat. Once it gets past a certain point, people will start to feel intense guilt after eating something like a slice of pizza. Also; people think that eating disorders are specific to female which is not correct, males can become anorexic or bulimic just as easy as females. I used to wrestle in highschool and we would pull weight and everybody else around us was eating whatever they wanted so we would often binge and then purge or just not eat for days. Hope this helped...

Yes this helped a lot. I somehow forgot to even think about the skinny side of eating disorders so thankyou. If I do well it will be because of you! :)