Errr...not saying that this is always the case but a lot of people with eating disorders do happen to have come from broken families and also happen to have suffered from minor or major tragedies throughout their lives...you will find that many eating disorder sufferers were victims of physical/mental/sexual abuse, rape, also they may have conditions like post traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, depression, etc...
Like for me I know that when I developed my ED I was still going through puberty, had a lot of skeletons in the family closet reveal themselves...which helped fuel and trigger the ED in the first place but I have no doubt that the ED definately stemmed from my family issues...I'm not saying all ED sufferers come from broken homes but I did...and it just seems that way...
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Anorexia is a symptom of other problems. The wanting to be thin is just an outward response to something else.
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^Truth.