Being a teenager may not be as easy as it looks. From picking the right thing to wear to school everyday to having the perfect figure, dangers are always there. Being “pretty” is a term that many teens are making their number one priority on their ‘To do List’. Many teens are now taking extreme measures to become what they see as perfection. Unaware of what they might be doing to themselves, they are blinded by their desire to become flawless.
Losing weight might be one of the number one things considered by a teenager, to accomplish their wishes of becoming what they see as perfection. Not everyone is devoted to exercising to lose weight, so instead they take the easiest way out. What they see as the easiest way out is a big threat to their lives. These ways of losing weight go by the names of Anorexia and Bulimia. What teens may not know is that these ways may be easy… at taking their lives away.
What is anorexia? Anorexia is an emotional disorder mainly about refusing to eat so weight can be lost. It is considered an emotional disorder, because the causes revolve around damaging the person’s self-esteem. Many teenagers who are bullied because of their weight end up choosing the path to anorexia. Once you turn anorexic, it becomes difficult to escape from that habit due to the body having gotten used to this way of living. This is why this obsessive disease is deadly.
Bulimia, a more severe and deadly way of wanting to lose weight is the act of consuming large amounts of food in a short period of time, and then involves self-induced vomiting. The nutrients that are consumed are thrown up, so the body is not getting the essential nutrients it needs to carry on with a normal life. This makes Bulimia a very serious and dangerous disease.
In a teenager’s life, being perfect may be everything, but sometimes they seek this perfection by taking extreme measures. They may not know how risky these decisions are, and how they are putting their lives in danger. There are many other choices to obtaining what they want, but hurting themselves is not the best choice. Hurting yourself means choosing death.