I believe that the main message that the image to trying to show is that anorexia is more of a mental illness than a physical illness. In my image there is an anorexic teenage girl looking at herself in the mirror, in the reflection she does not see what she really looks like, instead she sees a larger version of herself. She believes that she is ‘overweight’ even though she is severely underweight. “Frequently, people with anorexia become so undernourished that they have to be hospitalized. Even then they deny that anything is wrong with them.” (Goldberg, 2017) Even though the cause of the mental illness is unknown, most people who have had or still have anorexia have said that it began with societies ‘perfect’ body shape and the fact that
