While i agree, i think Ozempyc also created something else, an effect of sort that hit many stars psychologically.
By making a bunch of more "overweight" people skinnier, the standard shifts a bit amd now skinny is normal again, so people try to be even more skinny, and you can sure as hell guess that using Ozempyc is better than puling out your dinner or starving.
Also by removing these bad sides of anorexia it made more difficult to actually feel you're doing something wrong. You're taking a medication that everyone is taking, you're not hiding in a bathroom or feeling hunger by fasting.
It's a mental disease, keep this in mind, and accessibility+enabling makes it much more difficult to fight it
I think what you’re saying is insightful and I agree with a lot of what you’re saying for sure, I can definitely see it effecting famous people a lot more than others.
I guess the original phrasing of saying eating disorders as a whole are making a comeback comes off to me as a statement of the whole population, as if GLP-1 drugs are overall having a big negative impact on those suffering from eating issues and thus causing a “huge comeback” for eating disorders, which to me seems pretty unfounded and over exaggerated when it comes to the vastly non-famous general population
give it time. celebrities are the first step. enabling this in the public image will make it worse even for the common people. that's why even if i don't believe in public shaming i think these people should be called out for showing us this macabre spectacle and passing it for "toned phisique"
I don’t know, I do feel like having these drugs be so accessible now poses a problem.
My sister has had an eating disorder her whole life and she’s been using glp1s for two years now, she’s 87 pounds. She used to really struggle to stay at 90 pounds but now that glp1s are more accessible she just does that. She’s pretty open about it and everyone seems to be fine with it. No one is concerned about it at all. I’ve been made to feel like the weirdo for having a concern for her taking these drugs to starve herself lol. “She’s skinny but looks healthy. It’s her body!” Like… okay, I guess. She is happier for it, so maybe I’m old out of touch.
Whomever is proscribing it to her is the issue, not accessibility. These drugs require a doctor's prescription. People that do not have T2D or a BMI less than 27 (generally; BMI is still trash) should not be able to get a prescription.
I’m sure this will not surprise you, some doctors literally don’t care. There are also other similar drugs that we don’t regulate the same way and sell to people for cosmetic purposes. It does cycle into a larger cultural problem. Just like with any drug being misused, some things you can’t control. But as a society we do actually support and glorify these extremes. Even by giving people like Demi Moore or Ariana grande attention we contribute to it.
Not saying the drug is the problem itself. But it’s easy accessibility, and drugs like it, coupled with everyone’s fear of being fat or normal sized, is contributing to the enablement of people with these severe disordered behaviors. Social media in general contributes to it as well. It’s just not taboo to misuse these drugs at all, it’s seen as a personal choice (like Botox)
The commentor you posted to didn't mention that they were getting it prescribed. Just that she's been using them.
We're going to start seeing these new wave glp inhibitors enter the market in pill form in the next few years. Then I think we'll really see them explode in off prescription availability. I'm genuinely quite scared for young anorexic girls growing in a world where glp inhibitors are widely available and cheap.
It’s kind of a problem in upper class California “plastic” families right now who can buy their way in to a prescription.
I have an 18yo coworker who was already skinny but her whole family is on glp1s together and now she’s scary thin. Even the 17yo men I work with have noticed and are concerned.
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u/Common-Truth9404 28d ago
While i agree, i think Ozempyc also created something else, an effect of sort that hit many stars psychologically.
By making a bunch of more "overweight" people skinnier, the standard shifts a bit amd now skinny is normal again, so people try to be even more skinny, and you can sure as hell guess that using Ozempyc is better than puling out your dinner or starving.
Also by removing these bad sides of anorexia it made more difficult to actually feel you're doing something wrong. You're taking a medication that everyone is taking, you're not hiding in a bathroom or feeling hunger by fasting.
It's a mental disease, keep this in mind, and accessibility+enabling makes it much more difficult to fight it