Is there a relationship between eating disorders in adulthood and experiencing gender-based violence? Can an eating disorder be a physical manifestation of this abuse?

An eating disorder can develop as a way of silently coping with these problems. Not knowing how to act can lead the mind to develop an eating disorder.

There are no studies that directly link eating disorders to situations of gender-based violence, but we can observe in some cases of eating disorders, within the context of multiple causes, the presence of abuse and mistreatment—whether physical, psychological, or sexual—that the person has not been able to manage adaptively and for which they have not sought help. Therefore, they have become trapped in a pathological response to these problems, in this case, through an eating disorder.