Prepubertal Onset of Eating Disorder in Girls between Individual Vulnerability and Hyperconnection

The bio-psycho-social approach leads the formation of the eating disorder back to the globality of the predisposing and triggering factors that lead to the presence of the disorder. The early onset, between 10-12 years, should be set within a period of the girl’s life of intense emotional vulnerability, and a dangerous clinical impairment of the disorder. The pandemic period has resulted in a strong psycho-emotional impact in families and a distress factor in the prepubertal, emotionally immature girl, who faces her own psycho-physiological change by connoting the moment of life as excessively vulnerable on an emotional level. Insecurities and anxieties amplify, she hyperconnects on social networks, invests her body, strengthening her critical and perfectionist gaze.