Struggling to Find Youself

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The article that I read was about a girl struggling with who she is. She has a white mother, and a black father, so to black people, she was considered white, and white people black. It's hard for her to fit it, and she struggled with her ability to figure out who she really is. She turned to starving herself, so people wouldn't notice the other aspects of her life- white or black? People just knew that she was "sick". She says in the article that it's hard for people to not realize someone who's starving... She would rather be known as that, then to have people talk about what color she really was.

In psychology this week we talked about eating disorders, and while it can be genetics, it's also body dissatisfaction, and the need for control. Anorexia is an eating disorder in which a person diets and becomes significantly underweight, yet still feels fat and continues to starve themselves. The girl in the article portrayed the need for control. She needed to be in control of herself, and not let other people tell her who she is. She also looked down on herself- what is she supposed to call herself... what race is she really? This led to not knowing, and dissatisfaction in who she is.