The Influences of Mental Health and Culture on Weight and Eating Disorders - Research Article from Information Plus Reference Series

This encyclopedia article consists of approximately 24 pages of information about The Influences of Mental Health and Culture on Weight and Eating Disorders.

The Influences of Mental Health and Culture on Weight and Eating Disorders - Research Article from Information Plus Reference Series

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An eating disorder is not usually a phase, and it is not necessarily indicative of madness. It is quite maddening, granted, not only for the loved ones of the eating disordered person, but also for the person herself. It is, at the most basic level, a bundle of contradictions: a desire for power that strips you of all power. A gesture of strength that divests you of strength. A wish to prove that you need nothing, that you have no human hungers, which turns on itself and becomes a searing need for the hunger itself. It is an attempt to find an identity, but ultimately it strips you of any sense of yourself, save the sorry identity of "sick." It is a grotesque mockery of cultural...

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