Give your opinion on teen girls with bulimia and/or anorexia?

Answer 1

That they need problems that cannot be fixed with a simple talk with the parents. It's deadly and it's sickening.

Just this week a Brazilian model weighing in at 88 pounds died from anorexia-related problems. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15750402/?GT1=8717

Your body is the only body you're going to get ,and if you don't treat it well, it's going to give out on you. You aren't going to get another one, so learn to love it.

Answer 2

Girls with bulimia and who are anorexic need treatment. These conditions can be life threatening. Both conditions cause damage to the body. I don't think it is unusual for a girl to try purging just from hearing about it. My mother was bulimic and I didn't know what that was as a child, but my sister and I both tried it because we saw and heard her doing it. However, neither of us became bulimic. I got obsessive at times with being overweight which I was and so then I would diet to such a degree that I was putting myself at risk. I literally limited myself to 500 calories a day and had an active lifestyle and my legs would cramp up and harden like stone and it really hurt. I had a hard time to eat that amount feeling like I wanted to try less. I dropped weight quickly. I don't think eating disorders are one size fits all. There are extremes in how bad it gets and some people can go from one extreme to another and be bulimic for awhile, anorexic for awhile and even an overeater for awhile.
All of it is based in self hatred imo. That self hatred is not something people can just "get over" though with time, some who are not so severe about it will get over it.
I see how in Hollywood the standard is to be rail thin and girls want to mimic that. Comments to girls about weight affect some seriously.
For me, i grew up being called a "pig" and "fat" by my father in degrading ways when I wasn't and my mother the bulimic was always stuffing laxatives down my throat. My father called her a fat pig too. She wasn't. Looking at pictures of myself from back then, I wasn't fat at all but my sister was rail thin. I guess I am lucky I am not Sybil! But i am quite a well balanced human being today.
http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_mind/mental_health/eat_disorder.html

Answer 3

nicely i comprehend dozens of persons with eating issues yet that's additionally because of the fact I met all of them on the scientific institution whilst i became in therapy for my eating ailment. it interior reason straightforward however the subject is that many females pass by way of small stages like no longer eating plenty for some weeks or throwing up once or twice to attempt it and that's no longer an eating ailment that's a factor. yet many females do have them. The scientific institution I went to had sufferers from the city and from 12 hours away, that became the toddler's scientific institution and on the person scientific institution that they had a rather good variety of older women human beings (and men) i could no longer have self belief it. that's a psychological ailment, only like melancholy, stress, bi-polar..etc it relatively is by utilising no ability as straightforward as those yet is often existence threatening. I misplaced a pal those days to anorexia and that i've got an different chum who would desire to pass annmy minute..

Answer 4

Today Dr. Phil on TV tried to explain and help two with eating disorders of anorexia. I learned from the chat rooms and answers that the number one problem these girls starve their own bodies is they want to prevent the menstrual period. They are afraid to be come female sexually. Old Phil refused to speak about this and kept saying the same old same old. It is a mental depression with extensions to psychosis that is mild but permanent.

Answer 5

I think our society today is so much about looks that it's hard to girls to fit in, or feel like they fit in if they aren't so skinny you can see every rib and vertebrae. I think that it is mostly our society today that has pushed most of them over the limit and they are willing to do anything to fit in and feel accepted. The effects of these diseases (usually they go together, but sometimes not) are horrible. The body starts to break down, orgins will start to shut down. Their skin takes on a yellow or grey tone to it and they just look unhealthy. Usually, they will loose hair, girls will stop menstrating and sometimes it can effect fertility, for both sexes. Seeing the effects of both of these diseases first hand has made me look at my body in a whole new way. I don't care if I'm carrying a little extra weight, or that I don't fit in a size double zero. I'm just glad I don't have to deal with the problems- emotionaly and physically- that the people who have these problems have to deal with.

Answer 6

sometimes i think it has to deal w/ our obsession w/ the stars and if they gained like four pounds its a freakin tragedy or they MUST be pregnant. i think that people who are in the public eye all the time should focus on looking normal and not becoming anorexic , bulimic, and having plastic surgery because it's been a month since their last surgery. many young girls model themselves after these people and they believe they must be as thin as these crazy people so they starve themselves. i once tried to go anorexic because i hated the way i looked even though i was in a perfect healthy weight. but i couldn't because i love food way to much :P

Answer 7

All your questions are about weight and crash dieting. You will screw up your system badly. Talk to your parents and see a nutritionist. Trust me, when I was a teen I was hospitalized for anorexia.

Answer 8

This deals with teen girls that eat then vomit it out, to try and keep them slim, especially young models. It is a very dangerous habit and there have been a lot of deaths contributed to this.

Answer 9

I think it's sad when a girl truly has an eating disorder that is threatening her life, but was it worse are the other girls who think that this disease is cool and they try to become anorexic or bulimic without knowing that it's really a disease.

Answer 10

That its a sad world when they feel like they have to do this...its just sad when looks rule over health....i'm unsure if they know of the consequences.......