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- Jul 17, 2016
What even are the psychological reasons behind becoming anorexic?
There are honestly as many reasons to become anorexic as there are anorexics. People with eating disorders are born with brains wired to respond to stressors by obsessing about food. Studies on recovered anorexics have shown that their brains release less reward chemicals when they eat sugar than normal peoples, whilst bulimics brains release more. When people with the genetic predisposition towards anorexia experience certain life events - sexual abuse, bullying, stress at school ect - it causes them to start using food to cope with the negative feelings inspired by these events and develop an eating disorder. They often don't even notice this is happening until they're too deep in to stop it.