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What Causes Eating Disorders? - Coggle Diagram
What Causes Eating Disorders?
Social / Media
Perfectionism
Marketing
Negative body talk
Genetics
Temperament traits
Chemical imbalances that relate to hunger, appetite, and satisfaction
Family history of eating disorders
Stress related to racial, ethnic, size/weight-related or other forms of discrimination or prejudice
Culture
Family pressure to look a certain way
The “normalicy” of diet culture
Societal beauty standards
Cultural pressures that glorify “thinness” or muscularity and place value on obtaining the
“perfect body”
Cultural norms that value people on the basis of physical appearance and not inner qualities
and strengths
Psychological
History of trauma & abuse
Low self-esteem
Obsessive thinking
Lack of healthy coping strategies
Difficulty expressing emotion and feelings
A distorted perception of one's shape–they perceive parts of their body unlike they really are.