Blog #30: CP Article 3

The article I choose to read was titled “Anorexia and Bulimia: Raising Awareness,” and it was written by Briana Bennington. This article discusses eating disorders and the effects of the disorders. The author stated that at OSU 3,000 females out of about 30,000 have an eating disorder. It goes on the talk about how it can take over a persons mind and body and that it has the highest mortality rate of mental illnesses. A good point is brought up in the article that the media, while trying to support the awareness of the eating disorders, also causes the mindset that in order to be beautiful you have to be skinny. The media is not the only factor to blame. Other factors like stress, anxiety, and depression all go hand in hand with eating disorders. It is sad to read that it is all a chain effect and how depression and anxiety cause low self esteem which causes the need to control something, which turns into an eating disorder. It is upsetting to think that so many females are turning to eating disorders as a way to feel in control and self worth, when they should be turning to their family or friends for help. The author of this article also talks about how she had an eating disorder and now is a three-year survivor. This example helped to make the article more personable and helped to pull me in as a reader. I found this article to be timely, interesting, and made me want to help raise awareness about eating disorders. I feel that eating disorders often get over looked compared to drug addiction and alcoholism, and that people should pay more attention to eating disorders. I also feel as if we should have more role models, especially in the media, that take pride in being healthy, not the fake type of healthy.