The purpose of this essay is to discuss and compare the root causes of three ubiquitous eating disorders: anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. This essay will argue that these disorders share common root causes, from social media exposure to biological predispositions and this observation can shed further light on more effective treatment strategies.
Anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge-eating disorder all have some shared characteristics. For example, these disorders all affect women more so than men, and they often arise in in ones teenage years. But what is the cause of these disorders? Does social media play the largest role in determining if an eating disorder will develop? To what extent do others opinions of ones body influence ones sense of self-worth and does this factor into the development of eating disorders? Is it hereditary? Is there a difference in the brains of those who develop eating disorder that makes it inevitable that they will deal with this disorder at some point in their lives? These are a few of the questions I would like to explore in this paper.
The course textbook discusses the diagnostic crossover when it comes to anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and binge eating disorder. There is often crossover when it comes to someone who is dealing with the binging/purging subtype of anorexia then transitioning into bulimia. This is mainly because the main difference between patients with the binge eating/purging subtype of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa is weight. So if someone with anorexia nervosa (gains weight, the diagnosis will change to bulimia nervosa to reflect this fact. These types of crossovers make me believe that there will in fact be shared root causes between these eating disorders.
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