Girls’ body disgust can escalate into eating disorders and psychosis

Evidence

This disgust is expressed in many young girls by the desire to lose weight: they do not want to eat anymore; if they are forced, they vomit; they watch their weight incessantly. Others become pathologically shy; entering a room or going out on the street becomes a torture. From these experiences, psychoses sometimes develop. — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 739

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to modern eating-disorder literature and to Beauvoir’s own anorexia history; also to current facts about weight obsession. — connects to: Puberty’s bodily changes alienate the girl from herself and the world — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 835; Menstrual hygiene’s practical burdens transform girls’ bodily revulsion into chronic anxiety about discovery — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 750; Young girls suffer secret obsessions about being physically abnormal (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Young girls suffer secret obsessions about being physically abnormal #corroborates (0.85)
• Puberty’s bodily changes alienate the girl from herself and the world #expands (0.80) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 835
• Sexual ignorance and fear can produce crippling obsessive phobias in young women #expands (0.80)
• Self-hatred of the imperfect body drives the quest for bodily perfection #corroborates (0.80) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 579
• Menstrual hygiene’s practical burdens transform girls’ bodily revulsion into chronic anxiety about discovery #expands (0.78) — Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex, 750