How is Anorexia caused?

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Arya Mohit 10CJ

How is Anorexia caused? What is the Media? What does it do?

 

Newspapers, magazines, television etc all have a good relationship with the media. The media is known everywhere from England to Australia. The majority of the public tend to pay more attention to the media and society rather than self belief. It’s like a ‘tag-a-long’ in a group. The only reason for this is that people seem to behave and act the same way influencing others to do so. This does make sense because the person may feel left out. In other words they feel insecure. I will be discussing if the media does or does not have a large impact on society. Anorexia is believed to be mainly caused by the media and the celebrities who are involved throughout the media. Young teens who have not yet reached the stage to answer their own questions e.g., “why do I look like this?” “Why can’t I look like her?” etc, gradually change their eating behaviour or even go out and buy products that aren’t even promised to reach their target. The reason that people do such things is because the media makes the person feel low and acts like a dictator stating how people should look, acting near enough against natural beauty and destroying people’s lives for money. They effect them mentally as the may get paranoid which gives them no satisfaction as they tend to think negatively leading them to be another systemised person who is easily influential. In this essay I will also conclude my opinions on this matter and also bring out evidence for my reasons.

      Anorexia occurs because of many things for e.g. bullying, lack of socialisation, low self esteem etc. The media take advantage by making money out of these types of people (usually young adults or teenagers). This clearly shows that the media have no sympathy for these people and they try and make money out of it. This shows that the media are selfish. They aren’t bothered really about how you look, they just want to make money out of their products. The media commonly take over people who aren’t as open minded as others and are more closed minded people. Instead of a pupil having control of their life the media do, acting like a drug that is like an addiction. This causes many problems for the pupil such as; being distance from family/friends, spending money without thinking, becoming broken financially etc. It’s as if the Media is some sort of plague that cannot be stopped. The Media even takes control of celebrities’ private lives. For example, the paparazzi risk so much to take pictures of two famous celebrities having an affair or doing something wrong, causing havoc, having a disagreement or even things like not paying attention to dress wear. The next morning its in the paper and people who need the Media to survive mainly buy magazines such as ‘Heat’ to check on the updates on celebrities and the bad and good which leads to the Media making even more money. At this point, the Media acts like a huge giant with two arms, one holding the public and one holding the celebrities, controlling the two. The majority of anorexics are females even though many males are affected. Females are usually more single minded than males. They are also more hardworking students in school. The family usually have high expectations which may put a lot of pressure on the child. Fearing GCSE’s or A’ Levels is also another issue that leads to anorexia.

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      What people do not understand is that the Media need us to survive for example, if the same amount of public that buy newspapers, magazines, products etc stop completely for a month, the Media would begin to struggle and this would lead them to become bankrupt. Therefore, the causes of many people’s lives have been created by themselves spending their money to keep this cause going on. Now, the Media aren’t all bad but actions they take create negatives responses such as; hiring people to tele-market, market research rapidly, give out samples of latest products over and ...

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