CPOY 73 Interpretive Project Silver: "There must be a reason why I eat so much."
CPOY 73 Interpretive Project Silver: "There must be a reason why I eat so much."
They hide their extreme eating habits. They hide the groceries, the food and the empty packaging. They have tried every diet but every time it ends in failure. And for every pound lost there are more gained. Nobody sees it and very few knows about the phenomena, but 40.000-50.000 Danish people are suffering from binge eating disorder (BED). An eating disorder that is not accepted in the European health system (ICD-10) even though it is the most widespread.
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January 25, 2018
Karen Jensen, 64 years old, senior citizen.
“I have always said to myself that it can’t just be that I eat so much. There has to be something going on inside of me. But no one has ever listened to me. They have always said: “Just stop eating.”
As a child Karen had a tough childhood. Her mother left her childhood home the day Karen graduated from school. She then lived alone with her handicapped father and had what she calls an “ugly abortion” when she was 18-years old. Then her firstborn son had leukemia for three years as a child to which Karen says: “When life is tough, my good friend, the eating disorder, comes to me and wants to help. Then I eat with both hands and I can’t stop. I don’t know when he will let go of me. And at some point, I have given up now. He is just there.”
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