How would an eating disorder be triggered by the death of a parent?
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 at
7:07 pm
confetti.hippie asked:
Just trying to do a little analyzing.
What feelings do you think would trigger an eating disorder after the death of a father, or any parent?
Let me know what you think.
Just trying to do a little analyzing.
What feelings do you think would trigger an eating disorder after the death of a father, or any parent?
Let me know what you think.
Tagged with: Death Of A Father • Death Of A Parent • Eating Disorder
Filed under: Eating Disorders
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When a person loses someone close to them for example a parent they can sometimes feel like their life is spiraling out of control. Eating disorders at the root are about control. It is a way to control what and how much you eat. It is a way to cope with a feeling of hopelessness.
Regret, Dispression, sense of insecurity, ect…
Basically any negative emmotion. Negative emmotions tend to trigger bad habits which can lead to sleeping disorders, eating disorders, change in attitude, ect..
An eating disorder is all about control. If someone feels like they have no control over what is happening in their lives, they look for an escape of stability, usually leading into an eating disorder. Most doctors, or even the anorexics or bulimics themselves don’t know why they picked food for control. It is probably because they aren’t happy with what they look like in the first place, so that is the way they go.
It’s hard to understand how someone cannot just eat, or throw up after consuming large quantities of food, but it’s not that simple. The disorder completely consumes their lives, and they become depressed. When you say the death of a parent can trigger an E.D. it probably could. If that happened to me, I wouldn’t want to they about my father or mother who died, I would just want to find an escape to keep my mind off them. I would work hard to seem ok, and in control of my life. An E.D. would almost seem like a friend. All I would do is concentrate on food, or not eating. I would plan all my meals around the clock. Try new workouts and try to keep my metabolism up. I’d worry about hiding it, making sure no one knows. Eating by myself because I’m embarrassed how other people see me. Letting the scale in the bathroom control how my day will start off. I’d lose all my friends because if I went out, I’d be too worried about eating. It’s a VERY consuming mental illness. You don’t think about anything else.