Body Image and Eating Disorders 1. In your own words, explain how body image and self-esteem are related.
2. List two influences on an individual's body image.
3. What factors may influence an eating disorder?
4. Describe anorexia nervosa in your own words.
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1. Body image develops your self esteem because it’s what you think about yourself

2. Two influences on body image could be social media and peer pressure from sports or even just friends

3. Factors that would influence an eating disorder would probably be the persons confidence level and how much their immersed in the factors. (Like how much time they spend looking in the mirror or scrolling on Instagram)

4. Anorexia nervousa is a mental disorder where someone starved themselves because they don’t think they are skinny enough, no matter how skinny they really are, the person probably feels like they aren’t good enough and is probably a perfectionist.

Ps I had Anorexia when I was 12 ): it wasn’t like so bad I had to go into the hospital tho!! My parents or friends never found out, I refused to eat breakfast or lunch (my teacher tried giving me a banana at lunch one day and I just wouldn’t eat it because I thought I was so fat, in reality I was becoming underweight) and my mom (thankfully) forced me to eat dinner most nights (I would try to eat as slowly as possible and give as much as it too my dog as possible and I would shove it in my lap too, my mom already gave me smaller portions because I was never a big eater and also sorry for the sob story this just kinda got me in my feels, but I’m better now lol)