I always thought that anorexia was a female problem, something affecting young women manipulated by media and peers, even bullied, to become closest to what men want in a woman or what a successful woman is supposed to look like: tall and thin. This would be a social cause.

However, I read that some people, including men, become anorexic to control: they cannot control much in life, but weight is something they can control, like a way to cope with trauma. This would be a psychological cause.

My question is what’s the bigger trigger to anorexia, society or inner trauma?

  • Account_93@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Mine is to do with control yes (being male).

    Personally it’s internal trauma, I don’t care what society deems good looking or what I should look like (to others).

    So I don’t have any major triggers besides someone saying that ‘I look well’, awful thing to say for me personally(I want to appear unwell, it’s common).

    Still in full anorexia so I can’t pinpoint why(yet), all I know it’s down to trauma I’ve experienced.