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Do Parents Cause Eating Disorders in Their Children?
There has been a lot of discussion lately on the roll of parents causing eating disorders in their children, is this the case or not? It is very sensitive topic because it is painful for families to even think that they are a possible cause of their daughter/ son bulimia and/or anorexia.
I am a medical doctor and suffered anorexia and bulimia for over 15 years. Also I have been involved in the treatment of hundreds of eating disorder sufferers. Personally, I don’t know a family who wishes to foster eating disorders in their children. I would say that parents and the family do not cause eating disorders directly.
However, I know firsthand that the family atmosphere, parenting style and undiagnosed mental and emotional problems in parents contribute a lot to the development of eating disorders in their children.
There is a lot of research around about the roll of genetic predisposition in eating disorders. Yes, eating disorders do have a genetic component as well, but it is only the vulnerability to develop an eating disorder not the disease itself that people can inherit.
People can also inherit certain personality traits that make them vulnerable to developing eating disorders: like perfectionism, tendency towards anxiety and depression, competitiveness, impulsiveness and extreme stubbornness. All these can make people vulnerable to developing eating disorders.
It is the environment that turns people’s vulnerability into the disease. The way people live their lives from their birth that can make genetic vulnerabilities become an illness.
The first and most important environment people have is their family. Often people with eating disorders describe how in their childhood they had a tense family environment where parents very strictly and controlling. Children in families like this don’t have much space to experiment and to be free. These types of parents don’t let their children find their own way in life, turning them into puppets that are forced to be followers and controlled by strict rules.
In families like this children turn to eating disorders as a way to control their lives the best they possible can and to find emotional escape in the space of their eating disorder.
The other type of families is the overprotective one. Their protective behaviour puts onto the child so many limitations that the child is likely to seek her/his freedom and escape in things like eating, non-eating and manipulating their own weight. These parents cannot let their children be different than what their mental image of them is or the way they think the child should be. They look at the child’s achievements only from the angle of their own desires and opinions.
Most of parents in these types of families still want only the best for their children and don’t even realize that what they are doing is bad for the child. Many parents have their own emotional issues to deal with, which are still unresolved and deeply rooted in their own childhood. Some parents maybe even have undiagnosed mental disorders like OCD or personality disorders. Because these disorders have never been diagnosed parents are not aware of them and continue to put enormous pressure on their children and other family members.
Many doctors and therapists consider that blaming parents for their children’s disorder is not a good idea, because parents may feel guilty and shameful for the way they are themselves. These feelings of guilt and shame can stop parents from helping the child to recover and parents may even refuse to participate in the child’s recovery program.
Nevertheless, it is proven now that if the family atmosphere remains the same a non- loving, demanding, restrictive and an overprotective one, the child has little chance of getting better.
The purpose of writing this article was not to put lots of blame onto parents, but just to warn the families of eating disorder sufferers that certain changes need to made in the family atmosphere if the family wants to help their loved one recover.
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Anorexia Statistics – Is it Becoming a New Trend?
Anorexia statistics continue to prove that girls and boys, men and women are still dying to be thin. This need for control destroys not only the lives of the anorexics themselves, but the lives of those around from family to friends to coworkers, and only serves to further propagate the Medias’ unrealistic example of the “perfect” woman or man.
Anorexia statistics continue to prove that the unhealthy behaviors of anorexics are not fading away, but in some case they are actually be on the rise, especially in the male population. These behaviors include, but are not limited to refusing to eat, refusing to eat in front of people, dismorphic or unrealistic view of their own bodies, and exercising to extremes. These people are not only starving themselves to the point of death or near death, but should they survive and become recovering anorexics, they have often damaged vital organs and glands to the point where they are beyond repair.
This situation, as reflected in anorexia statistics often leads to premature death or reliance on continual medical treatments, such as kidney dialysis. According to the NIMH (National Institute of Mental Health), 10% of all cases of anorexia end in death by suicide or self-inflicted ill-health or permanent debilitating health problems.
For loved one’s having to watch the people they care for, the pain is as excruciating for them as the patients, if not more. They see their family member, friend, or coworkers lose their hair, spend ever-increasing amounts of time at the doctor’s or dentist’s offices and often feel as helpless as the people they care about. They often believe themselves to be as unable to control or change the situation to a positive one, much the same as those they watch suffering and dying right before their eyes.
Some people are born with a predisposition towards anorexia, which is only exacerbated by the images they see billboards, in magazines and ads, and in movies and on television. And even though the fashion industry and clothing manufacturers are taking into account the statistical fact that women are and have been growing larger over the decades, even going so far as to no longer send size 0 models down the runway in this year’s latest designer fashions, for many the damage has already been done. Women and men, girls and boys are still pursuing the unrealistic.
The traits most often seen as factors that predispose certain people to the tendency toward becoming anorexic, according to mental health anorexia statistics and observations, include perfectionism and a controlling nature. The anorexia is often triggered by extreme events that occur in the lives of these individuals. They could be victims of rape, new mothers, or recently fired from their jobs. Loved one’s who are concerned with the health of another should suggest if not urge them to seek help, either through their personal physicians, mental health providers, groups specific to their needs, or any number of anorexia hotlines. There is help out there.
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