A Silent Epidemic: Eating Disorders among College Women

Silent epidemic: For women's eating disorders of college students Jennifer Keegan, high school is stimulating. She is one of the most popular girls in school. Chairman of the farewell party, Queen of returning home, student ally president, and honorary student. She always works towards perfection. Jennifer's life is easy. She always gets what she wants. Unfortunately, when she faced a new reality it stopped it all: university. Jennifer is no longer around her friends and family.

Eating disorders are chaotic, a women's task force of the American Sports Medical Association of all sports disease associations, from anorexia nervosa (intentional self-hunger) and bulimia (recurrent bulimia and spontaneous vomiting) Dietary therapy "to a wide range. It is a term. Restrictive and ritual obsessive eating problems. Men are not immune to eating disorders. But since the world of society and ballet is more valuable to the appearance of women, they are more common among women. "This problem is more common among middle class women and upper class women, especially white women and young women younger than 25 years old," Dr. Warren said. "Dance is one of the worst areas, the average incidence of eating disorders in the white middle class population is 1 percent, in classical ballet it is one fifth.

Aya is a psychiatrist, a founding member of JAED, a member of the Japanese Eating Disorder Association. Her interests in clinical research and research include female students' eating disorders, postnatal female eating disorders, and severe and chronic eating disorders. She has the experience of working in the UK. Aya is currently working on contact manuals for school nurses and primary care physicians to discover early eating disorders and to improve the learning life of young people who have already been treated. She is also working on database research to study ways to support patients outside the community at public health centers.

Eating disorders affect women and men and are often caused by changes in a big life such as college admission. College students are particularly vulnerable for various reasons. The National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA) reports that eating disorders in adults usually occur between 18 and 21 years of age. This is when many affected people go to university. Self-trauma refers to an individual who intentionally hurt his body, not suicide. For people involved in action, this is a way to deal with overwhelming feelings. The consensus among mental health service providers in the university environment is that self-injuries are increasing in the past few years probably due to lack of coping mechanisms and a more stressful situation faced by young people.