Causes and Triggers

Around the Dinner Table Forum - Hall of Fame‎ > ‎Understanding Eating Disorders‎ > ‎

What we know about the causes of eating disorders -- Zeri

"We do not yet know, for sure, what causes eating disorders. Here are some things we do know."

"Biology is often glossed over or missing in discussions about what factors play a role in causing EDs." -- Midwestmom

Parents do not cause eating disorders -- Christopher

"Here are some useful citations to use next time someone tells you that parenting style, parent-child attachment, or family functioning cause or contribute, or are part of the "complex multifactorial" causes or contributing factors to causing an eating disorder:"

At the risk of sounding like a broken record, parents do not cause eating disorders -- Christopher

"Here are some of the materials that can be cited to support the idea that parents and families don't cause anorexia nervosa."

A parent discussion of PANDAS – A strep-related condition that has been tied to eating disorders