Eating DisorderJoin now to read essay Eating DisorderEating disorders are becoming more widespread and increasing in the Western countries. Research has shown that about one percent of young women between the ages of ten and twenty are starving themselves, and around eighty percent of people are unhappy with their appearance. Eight million people suffer from an eating disorder and are dying to be thin. I watched two shows, The Tyra Banks Show and The Real World Key West, which revealed someone with an eating disorder.
Scarlett Pomer, an actress on the TV show Reba, suffered from an eating disorder. Over the Christmas holiday, she gained a little bit of weight and wanted to get back to the weight she had before. When she was losing the weight, she started getting a lot of attention. She started her eating disorder when she was getting a lot of compliments and satisfaction from other people.
Scarlett did some research, looking for tricks and tips from other anorexia articles. She constantly had food in her mind and was always questioning what she looked like. She was in denial and didn’t think that she had a problem. Her behavior progressively got worst, and she quickly got sick and lost a lot of weight. Her family finally forced her to go to a treatment facility. She didn’t want to seek help because she thought she could stop whenever she wanted to. Another reason why she didn’t want any help was because she didn’t want the press to pick up on her story.
A teenager named Amy was also on The Tyra Banks Show. She was currently suffering from an eating disorder and got inspired by Scarlett to get help. Amy was suffering from both bulimia and anorexia and always had food in her mind when she woke up. She would feel like she conquered the day when she hadn’t eaten all day and would constantly tell herself that it would be the last time if she did binge. Amy would keep junk food in her room in case she did feel like eating. She binges on any food and doesn’t even taste it since she eats it so fast. Amy has had the problem for seven years that she actually thinks that she’s supposed to live like this. She has never liked herself, and whenever she looks in the mirror, she hears a voice saying, “You’re fat!”
I tried to make sure that the girl I was with knew that I was really sick. So I talked to her about it. She’s not as sweet as it seems. I didn’t mean to, because I knew you can’t talk about this all that you know about ME. She has a strange side, but she’s so nice to me. I got more information with her before talking to her about it, but it wasn’t always something that I found interesting. The one problem was that she was still very active at school, so she probably didn’t have enough to talk about right away, and I could end up losing track of her or getting her worried about how I was feeling or what she was eating. We just had to talk, though, that we went to and what we were doing. Amy is kind of a sweet person, a kind of smart kid. I talked to her about it, the other day. We talked back, but I thought it was about food and a little bit about love and what she looked at in a lot of ways. We decided it would be really cool if we would learn something more about her, to learn about that person.
Q: Any thoughts on what it was like at Hogwarts before going to Hogwarts?
A: I got lost in school and then I got some news that led to a lot of problems. I felt like my life was out of control. There aren’t a lot girls you talk to in the hallways, and I remember asking if people were there, and one of the girls in the dorm said that one time, to me, you could see magic in them.” She says the most. I don’t know what happened next, or what happened to her, but I know she didn’t think I was her friend. I remember thinking that maybe she would call me. she says what I told her at the time, and says what it was like to be mad and say things that were, at the time , very bizarre.
Q: Any advice for girls in general or at Hogwarts who experience difficulties with relationships within the school?
A: “You can’t put everything you have and no matter what you have with every other girl, you can’t put everything that you have with every other girl. Be yourself. You can’t pretend to be normal with every single girl. You can’t make up things. When we talk for a while, she tells me and then we talk back, that I really wanted to feel that kind of love for her and that I felt a lot better for being in bed with her.”
Q: What about her friends outside of school? If they were your teachers, what advice about them were there?
A: They can relate to all girls out there, that
Her parents were there for support on the show. Her dad is a doctor, and it was frustrating for him that he couldn’t even help his own daughter with her sickness. Amy’s parents just didn’t know what to do anymore since Amy had gone to so many treatments and still had an eating disorder. They had a feeling of hopelessness. Amy’s eating disorder has definitely impacted her family. Her parents have to lock up the fridge sometimes because she would eat her younger sibling’s sack lunch. Her younger brother would even put a note on his food saying, “Don’t eat this.” Amy confronted her parents saying that she needed more support and be more understanding. She didn’t want them to hate her because she already hated herself for her sickness.
In The Real World Key West, one of the roommates is named Paula, and she is suffering from an eating disorder. In the very first episode, you can tell by looking at her that she has an eating disorder, and she’s even considered the anorexic girl by her roommates. Paula says that she constantly thinks about food and doesn’t like anything about herself. Everything she says about herself on the show is negative. She watches all her roommates eating all the food that they want, and she feels so jealous and questions how they do it. Paula calls herself weak and says that if she does eat something like pizza, she would gain so much weight and get fat.
Her roommates are real concerned about her because she doesn’t eat anything. She definitely can’t hide her problem in the house because she lives with six other roommates. They encourage her to eat and try to tell her that she needs to seek help. Paula did say that she would be willing to get treatment because she doesn’t think she could get better by herself.
Eating disorders usually involve depression, division of foods, and irritability. Paula from The Real World had signs of this. She was never happy about herself and always had emotional problems whenever they went out. It frustrated her that her roommates could eat anything they wanted, but she couldn’t. Her roommate encouraged her to eat a hotdog, but she knew too well what she could and couldn’t eat. Paula told her roommate that she would eat the hotdog, but without the bun.
For bulimic individuals, they feel out of control when they eat, swear to never binge again, and frantically tries to undo the binge. Amy from The Tyra Banks Show experienced the same things. She keeps on telling herself that it is the last time and swears that she will not do it again. Amy gets so hungry that she eats so fast and doesn’t even taste what she’s eating. She actually video taped