Have You Seen This?

3 min readOct 11, 2021

It’s Freedom day, as we come out of an extended Lockdown in Sydney! What are your Goals this week? Have you watched the Series “Physical” by chance?
In this Series, Sheila keeps telling herself, tomorrow I will do better, tomorrow will be a better day, as she practices her eating disorder ritual. She is in a daily war, battling an eating disorder. Her self talk is so abusive, it makes her achievements extraordinary.
Anytime she is out of control, she resorts to her eating disorder. This is a very common issue among women, with image being a prominent concern.

From Mc Callum Place
It was Hilde Bruch, a prominent doctor, professor, and researcher in the late 1900s, who highlighted the role of control in the development and maintenance of eating disorders. As one of the early contributors to the knowledge of eating disorders and in studying their underlying factors and causal relationships, it was specifically through her work that the behaviors associated with anorexia nervosa were understood as one’s attempt to achieve “mastery” in one particular area of life in an otherwise chaotic existence [1].

Thus, under her direction, the symptoms of anorexia came to be correlated with an individual’s underlying sense of powerlessness in the face of life’s stressors, and a general lack of control. Others understood similarly that for those individuals, exerting control over their eating behaviors was perceived as a success in a world where they viewed themselves as a failure in many other areas of functioning.