Comments on: Who is to blame for your eating disorder?

By: Heidi

Heidi — Sat, 27 Oct 2007 03:20:34 +0000

My grandfather was the cause of my eating disorder. He molested me when I was 7. I had to stuff away how I felt. I picked food. I stuffed all the bad down with food. I’ll be 33 next week and I still do this. (

By: Rika

Rika — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:36:08 +0000

I should add that the reason I know all these contributing factors to eating disorders is b/c most of them exist in my life. I have been eating disordered since the age of 13 and I’ll be 22 this summer. It’s a long time to deal w/ this affliction, but over the years I’ve done a good bit of research on that from which I’ve been suffering.

By: Rika

Rika — Sun, 18 Feb 2007 02:33:14 +0000

Like most mental disorders, it is a combination of causes. It’s a coping mechanism for stress, for a feeling of loss of control, as a way to deal w/ low self esteem, as a way to respond to comments from family and peers, as a way to respond to what we feel society expects from us. And by society I don’t just mean the media- I mean the boys we have crushes on, I mean our family and our coaches, be they sport or dance coaches. The behaviors engaged in in eating disorders have been determined to be addictive, so it is easy, depending on the person’s wiring, to become addicted to the behaviors (I did an 11 page paper on this and read tons of research on it). Anorexia is frequently found among the girls who are the “perfect daughters”, straight A students, over acheivers, etc. They put pressure on themselves that rivals the pressure it takes to create a diamond. disorders usually accompany disorders such as OCD or anxiety disorders. It can be caused by trauma such as rape or abuse. Eating