Eating Disorders

Originally posted by DanieLs_4_Ever
I just dont understand why a 97 lb girl would think she is fat or needs to lose weight. I know it's having to do with a mental dysfunction of the brain, but yet, still I don't understand it. 😬

Actually, it has nothing to do with a brain disfunction. The causes of eating disorders are:

[list][*]Low self esteem.

[*]Perfectionism.

[*]Loneliness, emptiness, depression, anxiety, or anger.

[*]Feelings of inadequacy or lack of control.[/list]

body image dysmorphia is a disease where you're brain sees something different when you view your own body than what's actually there. People with BID who look in the mirror may weigh a hundred pounds but what they see is literally a 170 pound person, or that they're nose is too big or that they have aesthetic defects that aren't actually there.

I'm a bullimic that forgets to throw up...

Originally posted by Hit_and_Miss
This is the way I see it...

Your Brain is like a Computer.. You have spent you life learning and programing your brain to act in a way thats best for your survival..

Now I can't for the life of my figure out how people can be fat!, But thats just me! While I have a fear of spiders, Others don't. Now if I tried to break my progamed mind and like spiders...well... It would be very hard todo! The same with ED's.. There mind can't just be turned round.. They need alot of work... Work you can't provide...

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Actually, it has nothing to do with a brain disfunction. The causes of eating disorders are:

[list][*]Low self esteem.

[*]Perfectionism.

[*]Loneliness, emptiness, depression, anxiety, or anger.

[*]Feelings of inadequacy or lack of control.[/list]

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Excellent sentence.

I'm not quite sure how eating disorders are responsible for population explosion, but there we go.

Much of the moral blame lies with the media, which perpetuates a myth of the perfect figure. Lately the trashier magazines have attempted to redress the balance by saying people are too skinny, rather than too fat.

Not only is this a misplaced gesture that confirms culpability, but it continues to put out the wrong message.

Originally posted by Tha C-Master
I believe it lies more on the person's past, and how they were raised, its psychological...

'Much of the moral blame lies with...etc'.

For me, that's no incentive to starve myself to death. It might be to someone with psychological issues. That was implied in the concept.

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
'Much of the moral blame lies with...etc'.

For me, that's no incentive to starve myself to death. It might be to someone with psychological issues. That was implied in the concept.

Wait, you're trying to help people with something you know NOTHING about? I pity the anorexics, and not because they're killing themselves.

Trauma can do a lot of things. A LOT of things. You haven't experienced such trauma, nor do you know someone that has (though, I don't know that you don't), so you wouldn't know.

Originally posted by Captain REX
Wait, you're trying to help people with something you know NOTHING about? I pity the anorexics, and not because they're killing themselves.

Trauma can do a lot of things. A LOT of things. You haven't experienced such trauma, nor do you know someone that has (though, I don't know that you don't), so you wouldn't know.

You don't understand, these people don't THINK rationally like you or I do... they don't think much at all, they feel. When they DO these things, like bulimia or starving, they may feel "beautiful" or in control. Like I said its not rational, or logical, its self-destructive.

Originally posted by DanieLs_4_Ever
Yeah, I just dont see how Ex: Someones Dad kills themselves when they were young and that contributes to a girl turning to bulimia for an answer. I just dont see that happening.
Trauma can cause it in SOME cases, but I think it's in the head.

I'm a rational thinker, and I don't understand how slashing your wrists will solve anything either.

People that are highly traumatized aren't mentally stable, and WILL do irrational, illogical, and self destructive things. I *was* in a romantic relationship with one, whom I still talk to... people like that think of what feels right at the moment, at no matter the consequence, but as we all know what feels right isn't always what *is* right.

Originally posted by Tha C-Master
You don't understand, these people don't THINK rationally like you or I do... they don't think much at all, they feel. When they DO these things, like bulimia or starving, they may feel "beautiful" or in control. Like I said its not rational, or logical, its self-destructive.

Is this addressed to me?

Originally posted by Victor Von Doom
Is this addressed to me?

Originally posted by Tha C-Master
No I was addressing Daniels...

Oh. I was trying to work out the relevance.

Originally posted by DanieLs_4_Ever
It doesn't mean they do not know what the other person is feeling. It's bullshit if you think so; Sorry.

Yes, that's exactly what it means. If you haven't lost a parent, you can't claim to know what it feels like. If you've not had an eating disorder, you can't say what it's like to have one.

-AC

Originally posted by Adam_PoE
Actually, it has nothing to do with a brain disfunction. The causes of eating disorders are:

[list][*]Low self esteem.

[*]Perfectionism.

[*]Loneliness, emptiness, depression, anxiety, or anger.

[*]Feelings of inadequacy or lack of control.[/list]

Originally posted by Alpha Centauri
Yes, that's exactly what it means. If you haven't lost a parent, you can't claim to know what it feels like. If you've not had an eating disorder, you can't say what it's like to have one.

-AC

Thank you, AC. Precisely my point, though it was about trauma, not eating disorders. 😉

How come its mostly white chicks with anorexia? You don't see many sistaz or latinas with eating problems. In fact they don't care what you think, they KNOW they're fine. Why can't white girls be the same way, instead of making themselves vomit after eating a damn peice of pizza?

Originally posted by Quiero Mota
How come its mostly white chicks with anorexia? You don't see many sistaz or latinas with eating problems. In fact they don't care what you think, they KNOW they're fine. Why can't white girls be the same way, instead of making themselves vomit after eating a damn peice of pizza?

Article by Mark Stuart Ellison

In the United States, black women have usually been excluded from studies because of the assumption that the African-American community's acceptance of larger figures protects its females from eating disorders. However, a study of 613 white and black pre-adolescent girls at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut found that the black girls had a significantly greater drive for thinness than the white girls on four standardized measures and a three-day food diary. The researchers note that the results are "provocative" because, statistically, black girls show more obesity and less anorexia than their white counterparts.

The evidence seems to indicate, at least in the United States, that both white and non-white women who develop anorexia are influenced by similar factors. A computer-based literature search conducted at the Department of Family and Community Medicine at the University of Arizona came to this conclusion. In this study, the researchers found that eating disorders are equally common among white and Hispanic females, greater among Native American women, and less frequent among black and Asian-American women. The investigators observed that minorities were at greater risk for developing eating disorders if they were younger, heavier, better educated, and identified more with white, middle-class values.

Those university polls/tests are flawed, homes. They only concentrate on college students, not the whole population. A black or latino attending Weslyan University is probably an Unlce Tom, and are trying really hard to be accepted by the white population. I'm from south Phoeinx and have known blacks and latinos my entire life, and I am latino and can tell you that most of our women dont have self-esteem issues. A university poll of students doesn't mean a damn thing, ese. Like I said, it's mostly and overwhelmingly a white girl issue. And my question is why?

Originally posted by Quiero Mota
Those university polls/tests are flawed, homes. They only concentrate on college students, not the whole population. A black or latino attending Weslyan University is probably an Unlce Tom, and are trying really hard to be accepted by the white population. I'm from south Phoeinx and have known blacks and latinos my entire life, and I am latino and can tell you that most of our women dont have self-esteem issues. A university poll of students doesn't mean a damn thing, ese. Like I said, it's mostly and overwhelmingly a white girl issue. And my question is why?

The study was conducted by researchers at Wesleyan University. The study was of 613 white and black pre-adolescent girls. Learn to read.