Supermodel Kate Moss once said, “nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.” In todays society, people of all ages have been bombarded with phrases insinuating that one is too fat or should change their body and diet. Whether it is displayed in magazines, movies, television or technology, it is there and it is at a constant growth. Through these types of media, people are told that skinny is beautiful and that bones are a perfection to have them showing. Such phrases and talk are exactly what the mind of someone suffering from an eating disorder thinks and strives for. It is a constant battle between those thoughts of the disorder and the thoughts of ones’ own sane mind. The eating disorder is so powerful that it seems as if it is a parasite consuming
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The ones experiencing the disorder are sick, but they don't see what they have as an illness. They are so deep in the disorder that they are willing to do anything if it means them losing anymore weight. According to National Post, a 24-year-old woman named Jade who lives in England, was diagnosed with an eating disorder when she was just nine years old. She used her eating disorder as an escape for the sexual abuse she received from a family member until the abuse finally stopped at the age of 12. Jade went to college to study social work,but is now unemployed and runs a website that contains thousands of members from all over the world. Her goals of the website is to present people with an eating disorder the “tips, tricks and information” on how to continue on with their disorder. She wants to help and encourage the embracement of their eating disorder instead of preventing and encouraging them to stop hurting and starving themselves. In one of her posts she writes, “I’ve reached a point where I can go without food for three or four days. You can do it too, but it will take discipline and hard work.” Statistics have shown that in 2014, when this article was posted, that of the 1.6 million people in the United Kingdom that live with an eating disorder, about two-thirds of them had visited a website like Jades’. The danger within such sites have helped to spark a growth within hospital admissions and even as far as death because it was too late to save them from their
The ones experiencing the disorder are sick, but they don't see what they have as an illness. They are so deep in the disorder that they are willing to do anything if it means them losing anymore weight. According to National Post, a 24-year-old woman named Jade who lives in England, was diagnosed with an eating disorder when she was just nine years old. She used her eating disorder as an escape for the sexual abuse she received from a family member until the abuse finally stopped at the age of 12. Jade went to college to study social work,but is now unemployed and runs a website that contains thousands of members from all over the world. Her goals of the website is to present people with an eating disorder the “tips, tricks and information” on how to continue on with their disorder. She wants to help and encourage the embracement of their eating disorder instead of preventing and encouraging them to stop hurting and starving themselves. In one of her posts she writes, “I’ve reached a point where I can go without food for three or four days. You can do it too, but it will take discipline and hard work.” Statistics have shown that in 2014, when this article was posted, that of the 1.6 million people in the United Kingdom that live with an eating disorder, about two-thirds of them had visited a website like Jades’. The danger within such sites have helped to spark a growth within hospital admissions and even as far as death because it was too late to save them from their