Anorexia in Ballet
Anorexia and Bulimia In ballet. Anorexia affects over 24 million people worldwide. 9% percent of The United States of America’s population has some sort of eating disorder, and that statistic is even higher is ballet dancers, 84% .This essay will explore why the statistic is higher in dancers and the connection between success and being extremely thin.
Anorexia and bulimia are both very harsh psychological and physiological disorders. Anorexia is diagnosed when someone’s body weight is twenty percent below the expected body weight of a healthy person at the same age and height; they show severe malnutrition and believe that they are overweight. There are many causes of Anorexia and Bulimia, but these physiological diseases are usually based off of a couple things. Pressures, for example photos young girls may see on TV, in magazines and online. They may feel like compared to people around them they are more hefty and need to be at the same level as everyone else.
The need for perfection: perfectionists have the need for flawlessness in all aspects of their life, including their weight. Another possible cause is the need for control, for example a teenage girl feeling like her parents control her life, they tell her what she can do when she can do it and how. She feels like the only thing in her life she can control is her weight. An internal motivation is depression, where people feel so bad about themselves they don’t feel like they are worth anything. So they starve themselves.
In ballet, children can start dancing from as young as 4 years old. From the very beginning they are taught that being thin is key to succeeding in life. Ballet dancers, boys and girls and pressured from many different directions. What we can say is that the studies referenced here indicate that ballet dancers are a high risk group in terms of the development of ED’s .Yes, this is acknowledged in The Royal Ballet School’s Eating Disorders Policy and it warns : “The
Anorexia and bulimia are both very harsh psychological and physiological disorders. Anorexia is diagnosed when someone’s body weight is twenty percent below the expected body weight of a healthy person at the same age and height; they show severe malnutrition and believe that they are overweight. There are many causes of Anorexia and Bulimia, but these physiological diseases are usually based off of a couple things. Pressures, for example photos young girls may see on TV, in magazines and online. They may feel like compared to people around them they are more hefty and need to be at the same level as everyone else.
The need for perfection: perfectionists have the need for flawlessness in all aspects of their life, including their weight. Another possible cause is the need for control, for example a teenage girl feeling like her parents control her life, they tell her what she can do when she can do it and how. She feels like the only thing in her life she can control is her weight. An internal motivation is depression, where people feel so bad about themselves they don’t feel like they are worth anything. So they starve themselves.
In ballet, children can start dancing from as young as 4 years old. From the very beginning they are taught that being thin is key to succeeding in life. Ballet dancers, boys and girls and pressured from many different directions. What we can say is that the studies referenced here indicate that ballet dancers are a high risk group in terms of the development of ED’s .Yes, this is acknowledged in The Royal Ballet School’s Eating Disorders Policy and it warns : “The