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“That sort of control and that power that the eating disorder gives you becomes very addictive.” “It’s a way to control things internally,” he says. But his eating disorder is something he’ll always have to manage - with or without a community. So he put out the call on Reddit for queer men dealing with the same issues, and someone answered. “It's not that it doesn't exist,” he says. He says the North Texas city he lives in doesn’t have a large gay community. While his therapist and psychiatrist have helped him cope with his eating disorder, it’s been harder to find support from other men, especially queer men. Whitney, now 24, hasn’t found that feeling yet. Nonetheless, there’s also evidence that gay men who feel connected to other gay men have a lower rate of eating disorders, according to NEDA, which suggests that belonging to that community has a “protective effect.” “We’re all so concerned about our bodies, and how they look,” he says. He says there are a small number of ideal body types for gay men that fall broadly within two camps: muscular and thin. Whitney points to pressure from outside - such as stereotypes about how gay men should look - and from within the gay community as well. Gay and bisexual men face their own set of challenges. “That’s when guys are trying to get really big and think they’re tiny or puny,” Nagata says, even when they’re not. At the extreme, boys may suffer from body dysmorphia.
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Nearly one in three boys in the study reported trying to gain weight. They’re trying to gain it by “bulking up” and adding muscle mass.Ī study led by Nagata found that adolescent boys often see themselves as smaller than they really are, even when they’re at a healthy body mass index. But many young men with eating disorders aren’t trying to lose weight. Much of the research around eating disorders focuses on weight loss, like in Whitney’s experience. “One reason why eating disorders may be under-diagnosed in the male population is that the ideal masculine body image is not necessarily thin,” he says. Clinicians aren’t as quick to screen for eating disorders in men, and parents of teenagers might not recognize the behaviors that signal an eating disorder, which include dramatic weight loss, calorie restriction, food rituals and excessive exercise.
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Nagata says men may fear stigma or shame if they ask for help because of that feminine association. “So they are under-recognized and underdiagnosed in the male population.” “Eating disorders have traditionally been associated with females and femininity,” says Jason Nagata, a professor of pediatrics at the University of San Francisco who focuses on eating disorders in young men. And studies show gay and bisexual men are significantly more likely to develop a disorder than heterosexual men. over their lifetime, according to the National Eating Disorders Association, but men are much less likely than women to seek treatment. Whitney felt isolated - and he’s not alone.Įating disorders will affect some 10 million men in the U.S. “I could relate to the girls that I was in treatment with about several things, but other things I couldn't relate to, like losing their menstrual cycle.” “I was the only male, particularly the only gay male,” Whitney says. Both times, he was conscious of how different he was from the people he met. Whitney went through two rounds of treatment. And if I did, I would want to be a super thin girl, like a supermodel, like Kate Moss or Naomi Campbell.” I thought I wanted to transition into being a girl. “At the time I was struggling with my gender identity. “Not a male model, but a female model,” he says. He says he became interested in fashion and wanted to look like a model. “Something I could control was the diet and exercising.”īut by his mid-teens, external pressure set in. “My childhood was kind of chaotic,” he says. He says it started out as a way to feel in control. But he had been struggling with disordered eating for years, first orthorexia – an obsession with health and fitness - and then anorexia. “I thought I needed to lose more weight,” he says. When Zachary Whitney first entered treatment for anorexia, he was 5’10 and 104 lbs. (Robin Lubbock/WBUR) This article is more than 2 years old. A person stands on an old body weight scale.