|
|
This is only a preview of the paper
Click here to register and get the full text.
Existing members click here to login
|
|
|
What they don’t tell you about Eating Disorders
By Lauren Thomas
I’ve been through it all. ... Either way, after six years of bulimia, three shrinks and numerous episodes of anorexia, I think I have the right to tell you what I really think about eating disorders. ...
The problem is, our society doesn’t tell us this. Our society tells us that we need to love ourselves, that we need to see what is good inside of us and not outside of us. ... How many articles and how many doctors will simply tell you that eating disorders are just plain WRONG? ... That it’s wrong to be so vain and so self involved to stop eating completely and be obsessed with becoming thinner, with looking good? How many people will tell you that there are starving people in the world, and the fact that eating disorders are so common in America is disgusting because there is so much food that we are afraid to eat it because we don’t want to get fat? ... I am not attacking girls with eating disorders. ... They are the effect of what our society has done to us, made us in to self-involved, selfish, vain, shallow fake people. ...
I may be talking about eating disorders here, but what I’m really talking about is our society and the way they have created this never ending problem of being self involved. ... The problem is that this is not what our society is pushing on to us. Our society is implying that the most important thing in life is to make yourself content at all times. ...
During my six years of compulsive eating, anorexia and bulimia, I never thought of this once. ... I mean, how many standard morals do you see in our society? ... Socrates makes a point that emphasizes the criticalness of a good education in order to form a good society. ... I think that children and young adults are more prone to doing what society says rather than what parents say. ... to have an eating disorder because a lot of girls had them. In fact, the main reason I started out my eating disorder was because of this. ... The reason why it is, is because an eating disorder is not human. ... No wonder people have eating problems. I mean really, if someone gives you so much food that you would explode if you ate it all, it’s human nature for it to be difficult for you to stop eating.
Approximate Word count = 2011
Approximate Pages = 8
(250 words per page double spaced)
|
|
|
|
|
|