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>>Yes, >> >>You see that 30% of the children who are overweight >>are overweight because of emotional problems (the rest >>just gets the wrong food or has a disease or fysical >>problel of some kind) From these 30% 70% will develope >>an ED in puberty. Basically this means that 21% of the >>children that are overweight at age 8 will develope an >>ED of some kind in some degree later in life. Mostly >>these kids suffer from COE. >>I need to say these are dutch statistics, so there >>could be a slight difference for other countries. >>The leading theory behind this is that these kids >>learn young in life that emotions and eating are >>linked in an extreme degree. They already have >>emotional problems as a kid and later in life when >>problems come they will express this stress in terms >>of eating behavior, where other adolescents could >>express this stress in other ways (violent behavior, >>drugs etc.) For these kids the link between stress and >>eating is already established and will not easily >fade. >>The stress these children suffer from is mostly >>connected with (in this order of magnitude) sexual >>abuse, emotional abuse, war trauma physical abuse, >>death of a family member, trauma of violent incident >>not family related, divorce of parent. Ofcouse there >>could be a milion other causes but these are >>statistically the most listed. Some kids develope this >>without an directly obvious reason as well, thoughts >>are now that it might be genetic or learned behavior >>of parents. (parents with an ED have a 50% higher >>chance of having kids who develope an ED later). >> >>Hope this helps >> >>Choco > > >thanks--that definately sounds like me, though it's >shameful to speak of...borderline obese from age 8-12 >then quickly turned anorexic (mia tendencies). the >doctors i've seen usually make some type of dumb >comment as to how such an overweight kid can turn >underweight. go figure-i guess that's why they're >doctors and not therapists! > >it's funny, because i make absoulutely no connection >to my past and to who i am today, burned all the >pictures years ago-try not to remember or talk about >it because it disgusts me with a passion. though i now >feel less "alone" > >i'm going to save that info on my computer though- i >find it very interesting and did not know the >statistics were that high...it often terrifies me to >even recollect it and i feel shamed to speak about it >in therapy, so this is indeed VERY helpful info- >thanks again > ><3 jane
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