|
We don't have sorority houses at my school (yet), so that's another reason why things like this have gone unnoticed by sisters. Although many of my sisters room together in dorms, apartments, or small houses, they are in small numbers, and the rest of us live with other random people because we found places to rent through the student newspaper. There are very few of my sisters that I suspect could have a mild eating disorder, but if there are others they are hiding it well.
I'm sure there are LOTS of girls in EVERY sorority with EDs, because statistically 1 out of 4 college women has some type of disordered eating habits, even if not severe. The statistic is even more likely for women in dorms or community-style housing (such as sorority houses), because a woman living in one of those situations feels the need to judge herself against all the other woman morning, noon, & night of every day.
Most of the sororities on my campus have anywhere from 80-some to 120-some members, so according to that statistic, more than 20 to 30 girls in each sorority has eating issues. Multiply the lesser number by 7 (the # of sororities at MTSU), and you have approx. 140+- females in the GREEK community ALONE who have eating issues. That's enough girls to fill an entire LARGE sorority! Eating disordered people are very good at hiding it, too, but "we" can usually spot one another out of a crowd since we're familar with similar "tricks-of-the-trade" so-to-speak. They tend to be young (12-24), well-educated, upper-middle class women.
Sorry for my boring statistics, but when you live with something every day, you know a lot about it.
|