Peggy Claude-Pierre

About the author: Peggy Claude-Pierre is the founder of the Montreux Clinic, a residential inpatient program specializing in eating disorders. She consults with health professionals all over the world on eating disorders.

Many experts believe that anorexia is caused by a number of factors including dysfunctional parents and family life, physical and sexual abuse, and societal expectations for body size. However, these factors only trigger anorexic behavior in individuals who are predisposed to self-destructive behavior. The real cause of anorexia is the Negative Mind and Confirmed Negativity Condition (CNC). An individual develops CNC early in life and later expresses it in many obsessive and destructive behaviors, including anorexia and other eating disorders. With CNC, a person harbors a strong self-hatred, strives for unattainable perfection, and does not feel...