Abstract
The aim of this research is to reveal those factors that make an individual enter an anorectic world in adolescence. Why does a young woman develop anorexia? What makes one go to a journey to that Wonderland? The causes of anorexia were collected from the narratives of 11 Finnish women who survived their own anorexic trip as winners. Anorexia is a serious psychiatric condition that can lead to death at its worst. The causes of anorexia have not been clearly evidenced which makes it difficult to draw a distinct insight of the problems of anorexia. This article reveals the reasons and factors that make usually good and dutiful girls destroy themselves and their lives hooked by anorexia. Furthermore, the complex nature of eating disorder is discussed from an educational perspective because when pursuing toward the ideal of education, one performs to excess.
Highlights
Appreciating beauty and slimness is typical of the Western culture of the beginning of the 21st century West-European people are fatter than ever before
Anorexia is a serious psychiatric condition that can lead to death at its worst
The purpose of this study is to describe the causes of anorexia through the ex-anorectics’ narratives about their personal experiences
Summary
Appreciating beauty and slimness is typical of the Western culture of the beginning of the 21st century West-European people are fatter than ever before. Women are expected to have uniform appearance—in other words, slimness and tallness—whereas men’s masculinity and attractiveness usually depend on a muscular and firm, and partly slim, exterior. Anorexia, reckoned among eating disorders, is an illness that typifies the attitudes of our contemporaries: you are something only when thin, and an extremely small size is the goal that anorectics secretly strive for. Anorexia has been known for a ISSN 1918-7211 E-ISSN 1918-722X long time but this form of eating disorder came in public not until in the 1990s after many public figures became seriously ill. Healing from anorexia is possible but it is quite usual that it may recur. (e.g., Bulik, Sullivan, Tozzi, Furberg, Lichtenstein, & Pedersen, 2006; Fay & Price, 1994; Michel & Willard, 2003.)
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