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The three most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorders. For starters, anorexia occurs when someone doesn’t eat and starves themselves. It’s also common for an anorexic to run, do sit-ups, and or other ways of working out to burn off calories. Bulimia, on the other hand, is when someone binge-eats (eats a lot of food in a short amount of time) and then vomits/takes laxatives to get it out of their body. Lastly, is binge-eating disorders. Much like bulimia, binge-eating is when someone eats lots of food in a short amount of time but they don’t use laxatives or vomits. Eating disorders are a serious illness which happens to have the highest rate of death amongst all psychiatric illnesses (Teo).
Children typically form their eating disorder during adolescence and it continues to worsen as they get older. 60 million U.S. citizens suffer from an eating disorder at least once in their life. Anorexia is the most common eating disorder and a whopping 50% of people who struggle with an eating disorder are anorexic. On average, 40%-60% of young elementary girls struggle with their weight and want to be thinner. As for teens, the older they get, the percentages are immensely higher and it starts to become more common for boys (Mysko).
A vast majority of eating disorders come from celebrities seen on television and other online sources. Online chatting groups also add to the stressing issue with names like “Skin N’ Bones” and other groups named “Anorexia Rocks.” Anorexics are addicts, and these websites are giving them exactly what they want- to get better at being sick. Lots of online chatting groups are found on Yahoo! and the second they take down one group another pops right back up. In these groups, people talk to each other about how they need their eating disorder to feel happy, and they give each other tips on how to have the lowest amount of calorie intake possible. People involved in the chatting groups bring worry to doctors and psychologists because they’re telling each other that it’s ok to be sick and that it’s something to be proud of (Lubrano).
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