Restriction from anorexia brings some benefits.
- Relaxation of tensions
- Feelings of control
- Status

However, it does not aid in conflict resolution or relieve mental stress. As a result, they are reinforced, or they may even reach a dead end. For instance, in a situation when a person is in a submissive relationship and feels inadequate as a result, the "solution" may be excessive food control, displaying a valorizing control over having a slender body. Thus, a sense of self-control is fostered as a result of this activity, which also improves self-esteem. Contrarily, dietary limitations do not stop the initial stimulus.

Because stressors cannot be totally eliminated by the responses brought on by food deprivation, deprivation always seems "necessary" yet is never enough. In general, the pathological vocabulary that people acquire while being socialized in accordance with their socio-demographic characteristics provides the solutions to their stresses, or more specifically, to the specific behaviors that will crystallize their ills: food deprivation, "bulimia crises," alcohol consumption, drug use, scarification, etc., or the triggering of a pathology without practice (depression), or even suicide.


Process of Interpreting and Mediating Stress

- Social support
- Denunciation
- Collective action
- Ritual
- Stigmatization
- Reinterpretation of stress


Barnard College

Refers to perceived threatening or demanding stimuli, and in turn initiating the stress process.

Stressors

Scodellaro, C., Pan Ké Shon, J.-L., Legleye, S., & Hamilton, P. (2017). Disorders in Social Relationships: The Case of Anorexia and Bulimia. Revue Française de Sociologie (English Edition), 58(1), 1–30. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26605190

Disorders in Social Relationships

Aneshensel, C. S. (1992). Social Stress: Theory and Research. Annual Review of Sociology, 18, 15–38. http://www.jstor.org/stable/2083444

Social Stress: Theory and Research

Mediation Forms that Impact Effects of Stressors

The experience of stress begins with an encounter with a potential stressor. These stimuli can be categorized in various ways and include a wide range of events, such as major traumas, significant life changes, daily annoyances, and other situations that expose an individual to regular threat or challenge.

Learn Before

Related

Learn After