The ABB Foundation, an institution of charitable health, non-profit and dedicated to eating disorders (eating disorders), states that one third of victims of sexual abuse in childhood suffer from eating disorders in adolescence.
According to data from this institution, of the known cases of eating disorders that are related to the suffering of sexual abuse in childhood, 12% suffer from anorexia nervosa, 37% bulimia nervosa and 58% suffer from other unspecified eating disorders.
According to the Foundation's psychiatrist, Enrique Armengol, those who suffer from anorexia seek to avoid any sexual contact or feeling and provoke rejection by displeasing the abuser, who suffer bulimia, feel and show anger towards the abuser and adopt that pathology to “not be sexually attractive” . We add our theory after much has been said and studied about eating disorders, and our relationship is based on what one can or cannot control. That is, if a boy or a girl has suffered sexual abuse, it is something they have not been able to avoid, have abused them and have not been able to defend themselves.
That indescribable feeling accompanies them every day, they cannot get rid of it, even when they reach adolescence. That's when there are things that can be controlled, such as food intake, and that's where they reveal themselves.
Whatever the reason, what is clear is that child sexual abuse destroys the lives of victims and their families. Hopefully the time will come when it does not happen again, but for now, those affected must receive all the professional help that helps them recover in order to live.
