Eating Disorder Treatment

Many girls were competing to be skinny in my high school. I really began to take notice my senior year when there seemed to be an influx in eating disorders. You could see 110 lb girls binge eating in the cafeteria, bringing back two ice creams, plates of pasta, cookies, and fried foods back to their lunch table. While these girls clearly suffered from some form of bulimia other girls would just sit with nothing at all at their plate minus a bowl of plane iceberg lettuce. The school tried to intervene with certain cases became too extreme by bringing in a health nutritionist and an advisor on eating disorder treatments specifically anorexia treatment. The advisor spoke to my class about how girls from high socioeconomic class, attending prestigious private schools, were most at risk for developing eating disorders. The eating disorder specialist drew a bell curve on the whiteboard and pointed to the right side stating, that individuals with eating disorders are deviants and develop deviant behavior such as becoming more isolated, spending less time with friends especially when food is around, irritable, and moody. She explained that chemical imbalances from not receiving the minimum daily food intake resulted in an individual have mood swings, headaches, and fainting spells. Following that year three girls that I am aware of, have received eating disorder treatment from my class.