How does anorexia affect teenagers?

Answer 1

Eating disorders affect teens in many ways. They are usually cause by feeling ugly and wanting to look like someone skinnier. In the long run your basically slowly killing yourself because your organs are shutting down and your developing health problems. Also you usually lose the advantage to see your own children. I know how it is to feel unsatisfied and happy with yourself and the way you look and feel. Being anorexic makes you feel fresh and clean and light and like you've got something on other people(especially heavier ones). But the truth is 85 percent of the time your just depressed and upset about the world around you. Your confused about why you cant be like the fast metabolic girls down the street and the beautiful girls on the cover of Vogue. One good thing about getting it earlier in the teens is its easier to get over it and such. To tell you the truth though Im not even 14 years old yet and I've had an eating disorder for 3 years now. I weighed in at my lowest point at about 72 pounds at 5'2 age 12. Now I weigh in at my most in a long time at 105 pounds. I still haven't got my period, my self esteem is still gone, and every time someone makes a comment about how much bigger i look or even if my mom says " You look great" I begin to cry and freak out because the words YOUR HEAVIER pop in my head! So i don't know if anorexia ever goes away. Especially as long as models, guys, and fast metabolisms are in the world.

Answer 2

Anorexia affects a lot of high school students,many teenagers now are constantly surrounded by the images of famous people that are skinny and pretty. So many people are affect by these images, they presume it is how you are supposed to look so they create an unhealthy body image of themselves in their mind. Also young people have very impressionable minds. So some people at this age think to fit in they have to be skinny and this may be when an eating disorder starts.

Answer 3

For me, anorexia started during my pre-teen years and by the time I was a teenager, I was withdrawn and depresssed. I would hide away in my room with the door locked, I was skipping school, and I had no interest in anything.

That said, anorexia can affect people in different ways because personality (and some say genetics) are mixed in there as well.

It's all very complicated, to say the least!

Answer 4

This is the broadest question of the day. please be more specific.