Is anorexia transgenerational phenomena?

Note: following post is about one theory of genesis of eating disorders and neurosis in second and third generation of men and women who lived in some catastrophic circumstances. It´s not new and it´s not some miraculous explanation. However I would like to share it.

My therapist (maybe the word "our" would be more appropriate, because the focal point of the treatment is group therapy) is old genuine woman. She is specialised in posttraumatic stress disease, severe eating disorders and neurotic diseases connected with transgenerational phenomena, mainly with holocaust and communistic repressions in second half of 20.century. The things I hear and notice in the group are brand new. Suddenly, me, my perception and my body is NOT in the centre or of the vicious ED cycle. Our Therapist (Let´s call her Remedy) let us taste much deeper roots and reasons of our being, manners and fears without blaming anyone. There may be hyperprotective mothers, autoritative men, fear of intimity and all this common theories which always made me even more guilty- I was not only hurting my family with the Ilness itself, I was even blaming them with my therapist of being one of my ilness´s sources. I was ashamed when I heard about innocent people dying somewhere while I am dying voluntary (there are still many people conceptualize eating disorders as a choice or decision and sometimes I am confused: isn´t it really only some kind of luxury?). With Remedy, I can see myself as a piece, element and member of some much bigger process which is forming and sculpturing not only my ilness or my health. I don´t have much responsibility about myself. But there is another point in being responsible and honest to myself. There is no separate bad model society which promotes some kind of lifestyle, beauty, selfperception etc.). There are just people like us, like me. Your voice counts. Says the old lady when we are discovering our voices, our fear of aggression resulting in autoaggression and fear of loving (and losing) someone resulting in losing partners, friends, interests and...weight. Our grandmothers and grandgrandmothers live it. It was everywhere outside them. Daily fears, repressions, hunger, insecurity and mistrust, hiding and protecting. There are stories about self sacrifying. There are another about losing children or whole family. There are pretty existentionl questions: Why me? But there are also questions: Why not me? Why I am still living? Do I deserve it? And 50, 60, 64 years later we are here asking similar questions in different circumstances. We (fortunately) don´t have to live these fears and insecurities in totalitarian regime or deep crisis. We evert it inside on our bodies and minds. It makes sense, doesn´t it? The evolution of our brains and feelings is simply not as prompt and synchronised with modern history. Oh, it is NOT simple to write about it, and my English is SO simple, but I hope someone will understand.

Well, this is the afferent part of the therapy.

Although I made the first difficult steps couple of month ago, I have majority of work infront of me. The efferent pathway is inevitably connected with eating and weight gain. This is my work NOW. Than I can theorize about past and future.