Quote Originally Posted by Lady's Human
No need to lock them in the basement. Simply do what my parents did a few decades ago. Limit TV, limit and control other media, and keep an eye on who we were hanging out with and what we were doing when we were doing it.

Anorexia nervosa has probably existed for ages, but like other mental illnesses wasn't diagnosed. Mental health is a relatively new field of study, and many ailments simply didn't exist even 20 years ago. Not because they were not affecting people, but because they weren't being diagnosed. As a parallel, I can almost guarantee Post Traumatic Stress disorder affected soldiers from the Civil War, the Spanish American war, Boxer rebellion, and other pre-Vietnam conflicts, but there was no diagnosis for it, as the science wasn't there.
"""Anorexia Nervosa is more common today, than a century ago. There are different reasons for this:

The thin ideal has become "fashionable", an ideal which almost all type's of media advocate. This leads people to believe that this is the ideal way to look like, and the right way to live their life. Many people try different slimming methods, one after the other, and unsuitable slimming methods is the most common factor which starts an eating disorder.

Modern technology helps us so much that we do not need to exert our bodies physically as much as before. Most work is performed in a sitting position. People handle the reduced need for with less and/or healthy food.

The media also focus a lot on sport and exercise, which can lead to an extreme focus on one´s body, and on an almost unreachable body ideal.

Eating disorders like Anorexia Nervosa have shown to occur more commonly in countries where these reasons are more apparent in the daily life. """"

Agreed....it has been around for a long time, and was first diagnosed in the 1800's or thereabouts........but it is more common now, for the reasons above !!!!!!
PTSD is a little different, it is caused by trauma.....but I can see the parallel, and will accept same as that.
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