Eating Disorder Maintaining Factors While there are a variety of
factors that can trigger an eating disorder, additional factors
often help to maintain disordered behavior once it begins.
Indeed, once a disorder develops, the resulting changes can
cause additional factors that maintain a debilitating pattern.
The elements that initiate a disorder are not always the same
things that keep it going. Eating Disorder Mindsets
Dysfunctional thinking and negative mindsets can perpetuate
eating disorders. While these thinking patterns may seem
illogical and unreasonable to healthy individuals, those with
eating disorders fully believe the entrapments of their mind.
Some clinicians and researchers have suggested that eating
disordered individuals have difficulty coping with and managing
strong emotions, such as anger. The anger they experience can be
a result of bitterness toward their family, the world and
themselves. These feelings are often turned inward, instead of
being expressed in healthy, manageable ways. This