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Anorexia
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Anyone
involved in treating anorexics soon becomes aware of the contradiction
of potentially beautiful young girls, who while denying their actual
beauty, pursue an ideal of beauty and often end up emaciated and
extremely unattractive. In cultures in which food is scarce then
obesity symbolizes high social rank and access to resources. When
food is readily available and anyone can be fat, then to be thin
can symbolize high social status. It signifies self-control. These
days even 6-9 year olds in western cultures are concerned about
their weight and shape. Immigrants to western societies do not themselves
develop eating disorders but their daughters do. There is no single
cause of anorexia but rather it is caused by a combination of factors
including genetic, biological, family, individual and social/cultural.
Evidence for the social/cultural causation can be seen in that here
are relatively few anorexics in a culture in which most people do
not get enough to eat.
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In
1983 the singer Karen Carpenter died at age of 32 from anorexia
nervosa. This brought eating disorders to America's attention. In
1987 the average model weighed 23 percent less than the average
American woman and by the 1990s five million American women were
suffering from eating disorders.
The
fashion industry doesn't cause eating disorders in young women.
Glamorous images of thin models reflect something else which is
going on. All of us have genes which seek to reproduce themselves-it
is built into our psychologies. Status means access to resources
like food and mating opportunities. There is an inherent psychological
preference for status because, in our ancestral past, higher status
meant better chances of survival as it usually meant greater access
to resources and greater comforts. This, of course, is still true
today in many parts of the world. In the Western world where there
is a surplus of food to aspire to be thin is associated with aspiring
to higher status. The tragic paradox is that the aspiration to
be thin, when over exaggerated as in anorexia, carries with it
a significant risk of other health problems or, in extreme cases,
mortality.
The
author of this article is a qualified and experienced psychotherapist
with many years experience working for the NHS in the UK. Information
in this article is purely for educational purposes. If you suspect
you may be suffering from anorexia or other eating disorder please
seek appropriate help from your doctor or a properly qualified mental
health clinician.
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