Social Media Influence Of Eating Disorders In Young Girls

Women today have a lot of pressure in how they want to look physically. Social media contributes to body dissatisfaction or shaming because of a women’s figure. The need to look think is driving many young girls and women to eating disorders. This is affecting teenage girls the most because of their fixation on how they think their bodies should look every time they see a female model in a commercial or tabloid. Many of them go to the extreme on making sure they stay as thin as they can or find other ways to maintain a certain weight so they can fit in. It gets to a scary point in their lives when you start seeing their bones when they lose too much weight and start looking like they are malnutrition. Eating disorder within teens are easily to hind because many parents think their …show more content…
She told me it was done when it was time to take a shower that way the sound of the water would drown out the sound when she threw up or do it in the bathroom outside the house. It shocked me knowing she used to do this to herself because she always have looked like she worked out every day. I didn’t want to ask anything more about it because of the uncomfortable look on her face when she talked about what was going on during her childhood years. I decide to just listen to her and let her share what she was comfortable with sharing. She said she had some type of counseling back then, but she still struggles with her eating disorder. We work together and many times I seen how she struggles when we all at lunch, especially when we have potlucks. Everyone bring in a dish and the breakroom turns into one big buffet. I know she loves eating and can tell the expressions on her face that she is struggling on controlling her food intake. She eats but then confide in me of her struggle and I feel bad