Eating_Disorders

Eating Disorders There is no one specific reason for eating disorders. There are many factors that contribute to this expanding problem. Traumatic events, controlling environments, peer pressure, and the media are some of the most frequent causes for eating disorders. Eating disorders are a result of psychological and interpersonal factors. The most common eating disorders involve one of the following: starvation, binging, compulsively overeating. Regardless of the eating disorder one may have, the effects can be devastating and even life threatening. In many cases, death can be a contributing factor to one’s disorder. For example, death of a close relative or friend can lead to too many painful emotions for one to take in and be able to deal with. They find their comfort either with food or by starving themselves. Whether it be binging, starvation, or overeating, this can be the beginning of a life long illness. Other situations such as rape, divorce, degrading comments, and first sexual experiences often occur in one’s childhood. Many traumatic childhood experiences can also lead to what results in eating disorders. Children that have experienced their parents go through a divorce may feel abandoned or alone. Children that have grown up around eating disorders have a eating, disorders, lead, one, pressure, heart, teeth, disorder, disease, cause, anorexics, themselves, peer, media, life, food, death, common, causes, women, whether, vomiting, traumatic, take, swollen, parents, pancreas, experiences, esophagus, bulimics, body, binging, after, unless, television