This is an excellent connection. Having had close encounters with anorexia in family and high school friends I saw some different motivations, but central to it was control and a common thread for (anecdote I know) for 4 out of the 5 were so-called “good divorces” just prior to or during puberty. The shared custody arrangements whilst ‘f…
This is an excellent connection. Having had close encounters with anorexia in family and high school friends I saw some different motivations, but central to it was control and a common thread for (anecdote I know) for 4 out of the 5 were so-called “good divorces” just prior to or during puberty. The shared custody arrangements whilst ‘fair for both parents’ the constant change of address for the kids were destabilising and added a layer of complexity to their lives which collided with puberty in all its intensity. They wanted to be invisible and be in control, with that desire to be invisible intensified when remarriages and halfsiblings came along. Treatment was also nightmarishly more complicated with the two family dynamics to accomodate and the introduction of step parents.
I can imagine these dynamics would be present and exacerbated even more intensely with trans-id kids and the moral high ground so readily available for affirming pathways.
Random anecdote too on religious fasting in the Catholic context. All healthy people aged 14-70 are obligated to fast during Lent and and Advent and abstain from meat on Friday’s, with exceptions for pregnant and breast feeding women, chronic illness sufferers, being cognitively impaired, or a special feast day like St Patrick’s day falls on a Friday or in a fasting period. I did ask a priest and canon lawyer about whether a someone in the throes of an eating disorder or is in recovery is obligated to fast and he said defiantly not, but would encourage non-food related spiritual practices to compliment the themes of any therapeutic intervention, such as meditating on the humanity of Jesus and incarnation, God becoming flesh because it is good and holy and not our enemy.
Random diversion done.
Keep doing what your doing. It’s quality thinking.
This is an excellent connection. Having had close encounters with anorexia in family and high school friends I saw some different motivations, but central to it was control and a common thread for (anecdote I know) for 4 out of the 5 were so-called “good divorces” just prior to or during puberty. The shared custody arrangements whilst ‘fair for both parents’ the constant change of address for the kids were destabilising and added a layer of complexity to their lives which collided with puberty in all its intensity. They wanted to be invisible and be in control, with that desire to be invisible intensified when remarriages and halfsiblings came along. Treatment was also nightmarishly more complicated with the two family dynamics to accomodate and the introduction of step parents.
I can imagine these dynamics would be present and exacerbated even more intensely with trans-id kids and the moral high ground so readily available for affirming pathways.
Random anecdote too on religious fasting in the Catholic context. All healthy people aged 14-70 are obligated to fast during Lent and and Advent and abstain from meat on Friday’s, with exceptions for pregnant and breast feeding women, chronic illness sufferers, being cognitively impaired, or a special feast day like St Patrick’s day falls on a Friday or in a fasting period. I did ask a priest and canon lawyer about whether a someone in the throes of an eating disorder or is in recovery is obligated to fast and he said defiantly not, but would encourage non-food related spiritual practices to compliment the themes of any therapeutic intervention, such as meditating on the humanity of Jesus and incarnation, God becoming flesh because it is good and holy and not our enemy.
Random diversion done.
Keep doing what your doing. It’s quality thinking.