Inadequacy And Failure Of Anorexia Nervosa

Inadequacy, Weakness, Failure. This is how you feel when you suffer from Anorexia. Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder that makes people starve themselves to death. Believe it or not, but many people suffer from eating disorders. Many people that you would not think are struggling with the way they look, are. We as humans view that being "skinny" and looking "beautiful/handsome" are very important. Some people take this into account much more than others. They begin to do things to their body, to look the way society believes is most attractive. And this way involves starving themselves, and excessive exercise, which in turn can lead to life threatening problems. In this paper you will learn about what anorexia is, how it affects patients, how to treat it, and how oxytocin affects patients with anorexia.

Anorexia Nervosa is an eating …show more content…
The toll the body takes from anorexia is pretty bad, it holds the highest death rate for any illness. The death rate varies from 5% to 20% of people who eventually pass away from this illness, you are told that the longer you have anorexia means you are more likely to die from the illness. If you survive with this illness you most likely will have damaged almost every bodily system inside you. The disease starts eating at your bones when you are a young adolescent. Meaning you usually can get this disease around when your bone mass is the strongest and is supposed to grow rapidly. Anorexia hurts the heart more than anything inside the human