Control and the Anorexics
Psychologists will tell you that eating disorders are more about control than anything else. It happens a lot to young women who have little to no control over their lives. The food they ingest is something they think they can control. They abuse themselves because they can.
You also see a lot of young women who get themselves knocked up with similar notions that maybe if they had a baby they’d have someone around who was even weaker and more helpless than they are.
Then you have the anorexics who want to have a little baby to love, but they can’t get pregnant because their hormones are all screwed up because they won’t eat right. But if they could only get pregnant, then maybe they could start eating again. It never ends.
Years ago, I was reading in Omni magazine about this saint from Portugal who wanted so bad to stay a virgin for Jesus that she prayed and prayed to become ugly so her daddy couldn’t marry her off to some prince. So one morning she woke up with a beard on her face, and her dreams came true. But her daddy was so pissed off, he had her strung up on a cross so she could die just like her Jesus.
Anyway, Omni magazine likes to make up crazy stuff in the name of science, but I really liked this one. They speculated that instead of a miracle from God, maybe this saint was just an anorexic. She screwed up her hormones and grew some facial hair. It coulda happened.