As explained in the article “Anorexia and the brain” by Rachel Cantrell, anorexics tend to display attention seeking behaviors, anxiety, obsessiveness, and wanting to be thin from a very young age and it continues to persist even after recovery (2013). Anorexia has also been seen as a result of environmental and social factors. The image of women portrayed in today’s media is getting thinner by the day, which is extremely different to the body structure of the average woman. It is an assumption that women who eat less food and have slender body types are more feminine. This presumption has played a vital role in initiating the development of correlated mental illnesses, due to resentment and comparison of oneself with that of the ‘ideal image’ depicted by the
As explained in the article “Anorexia and the brain” by Rachel Cantrell, anorexics tend to display attention seeking behaviors, anxiety, obsessiveness, and wanting to be thin from a very young age and it continues to persist even after recovery (2013). Anorexia has also been seen as a result of environmental and social factors. The image of women portrayed in today’s media is getting thinner by the day, which is extremely different to the body structure of the average woman. It is an assumption that women who eat less food and have slender body types are more feminine. This presumption has played a vital role in initiating the development of correlated mental illnesses, due to resentment and comparison of oneself with that of the ‘ideal image’ depicted by the