"Eating" refers to eating habits, weight control practices, and attitudes about weight and body shape; "Disorder" refers to the consequent loss of self-control, obsession, anxiety, alienation, and potentially life threatening physiological imbalances.
Eating disorders occur when one's use of food causes increasingly serious problems in major areas of one's life.
The three major disorders are Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Compulsive Overeating.
Who has eating disorders?
Anyone. Eating disorders cut across gender, race, and class lines. Due to cultural ideas of feminine beauty, however, young women feel a strong desire to be thinner than their bodies naturally are.
What are some causes?
Food is not the issue! People with eating disorders are struggling to cover up other problems or cope with painful emotions to feel as if they are in control of their lives:
On Campus Resources
Counseling Services:
203-392-5475
Women's Center:
203-392-6946
Wellness Office:
203-392-6526
Health Services:
203-392-6300
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Feelings of:
Inadequacy
Depression
Anxiety
Loneliness
Low self esteem and low self worth
Inferiority
Troubled family and personal relationships
Our culture's constant idealization of thinness and "the perfect body"
