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Subject: Re: COE and anorexia (chocolate)

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bittersweet

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Date Posted: 23:59:34 07/11/05 Mon
In reply to: Chocolate 's message, "Re: COE and anorexia (chocolate)" on 21:46:42 07/10/05 Sun

>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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Re: COE and anorexia (chocolate)	Chocolate	00:30:22 07/12/05 Tue