During part two of “The Box of Uncertainties”, I arranged interviews with people suffering from eating disorders. At first, I posted a post online to invite sufferers to share their experiences with me, and then, we met each other in different cafe shops in London or had online meets. The interesting thing is that they look normal, have “standard figures”, and have positive images on their social media. If they don’t tell, it’s hard to see if they suffer or have suffered from eating disorders.
There are many causes of their eating disorders. It can be divided into internal factors (personal value etc.) and external factors (people’s judgements etc.). Facing various pressures makes them use food to release emotions. And most of their parents and friends cannot understand their behaviour. Therefore they instead talk to me than their circle of acquaintances. What do I want to do next? I want to seek what’s behind “Food”, and I will take action to tell them don’t hurt themselves anymore. People will face different trouble. There has another way to sort it out. I understand it’s a huge group I’m meeting. But in the current step, I want to make a small contribution to sufferers.
