In an article called “Kristina's story”, kristina develops anorexia nervosa at ten years old. The weight loss was quick and drastic, and when her parents’ friends began asking if she had a terminal disease, they got right on the phone to make an appointment with the nearest specialist. She was diagnosed at the beginning of her fifth-grade year, she fought and cried and saw three treatment providers weekly (saffran). Kristina was lucky to have such a supportive and fast reacting family. Eating disorders are a very serious illness and should not be taken lightly.
According to an article called “What we do” Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. In a national survey, four out of ten people reported that they either suffered or have known someone who has suffered from an eating disorder. There is a significant lack of funding to combat eating disorders and their devastating consequences (“what we do”). “When you are so unhappy you don't know how to accomplish anything, then to have control over your body becomes an extreme accomplishment. You make your body your very own kingdom where you are the tyrant, the absolute dictator” says Hilde burch the author of Eating Disorders: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, And the Person Within. In the 1970s bruch promotes public awareness with her story providing an insight of what it feels like to have an eating disorder. …show more content…
According to Oxford Dictionary “anorexia is an emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat.” Oxford Dictionary also says “bulimia is an emotional disorder involving distortion of body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight, in which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by depression and self-induced vomiting, purging, or fasting.” Lastly Oxford Dictionary says “binge eating is the consumption of large quantities of food in a short period of
According to an article called “What we do” Anorexia has the highest mortality rate of any mental illness. In a national survey, four out of ten people reported that they either suffered or have known someone who has suffered from an eating disorder. There is a significant lack of funding to combat eating disorders and their devastating consequences (“what we do”). “When you are so unhappy you don't know how to accomplish anything, then to have control over your body becomes an extreme accomplishment. You make your body your very own kingdom where you are the tyrant, the absolute dictator” says Hilde burch the author of Eating Disorders: Obesity, Anorexia Nervosa, And the Person Within. In the 1970s bruch promotes public awareness with her story providing an insight of what it feels like to have an eating disorder. …show more content…
According to Oxford Dictionary “anorexia is an emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat.” Oxford Dictionary also says “bulimia is an emotional disorder involving distortion of body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight, in which bouts of extreme overeating are followed by depression and self-induced vomiting, purging, or fasting.” Lastly Oxford Dictionary says “binge eating is the consumption of large quantities of food in a short period of