In the United States, twenty million women and ten million men suffer from an eating disorder at some time in their life, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating disorder (Hudson, Keski-Rahkonen, and Wade). Eating disorders are a very complex and devastating illness that cause serious consequences for people’s health and relationships. Along with affecting the physical health, the mental and emotional health is affected. When suffering from an eating disorder, people need to seek professional help and the sooner that they seek help the more likely a person has for physical and emotional recovery. The major causes of eating disorders are the media, stress, depression, and anger. In the world today, there are many pressures
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The reasoning behind this is those in the white middle and/or upper middle class families have a large emphasis on their appearance, achievements and body weight (“Harvard Women’s Health Watch”). Many people are unaware of what an eating disorder is at this day in time and if they do, they do not know how negatively they can affect people’s health. Eating disorders can cause, low blood pressure, slow heart rate; irregular heart rhythm, brain abnormalities, and many other health conditions (Teo). After this list of health problems was read to Wayne Central health teacher Tim Mattle, he stated; “It’s terrible that people don’t know how much an eating disorder affects a person, it leads to very poor health and can potentially lead to death.”. As this mental addiction can become more severe over time the proper medical attention is important to …show more content…
It is important to sit whomever is dealing with the eating disorder down, confront them very directly and do not beat around the bush what so ever (Mattle). There are various places in which professional help can be found, something as simple as a therapist can make the biggest difference with the situation. Psychotherapy is said to be the best therapy, through this process the victim speaks of their situation including their personal feelings while hearing the feelings of how others affected. While in the recovery process it is essential to be in a supportive, loving and caring environment in which people are standing by the victim’s side throughout the hardest and easiest
The reasoning behind this is those in the white middle and/or upper middle class families have a large emphasis on their appearance, achievements and body weight (“Harvard Women’s Health Watch”). Many people are unaware of what an eating disorder is at this day in time and if they do, they do not know how negatively they can affect people’s health. Eating disorders can cause, low blood pressure, slow heart rate; irregular heart rhythm, brain abnormalities, and many other health conditions (Teo). After this list of health problems was read to Wayne Central health teacher Tim Mattle, he stated; “It’s terrible that people don’t know how much an eating disorder affects a person, it leads to very poor health and can potentially lead to death.”. As this mental addiction can become more severe over time the proper medical attention is important to …show more content…
It is important to sit whomever is dealing with the eating disorder down, confront them very directly and do not beat around the bush what so ever (Mattle). There are various places in which professional help can be found, something as simple as a therapist can make the biggest difference with the situation. Psychotherapy is said to be the best therapy, through this process the victim speaks of their situation including their personal feelings while hearing the feelings of how others affected. While in the recovery process it is essential to be in a supportive, loving and caring environment in which people are standing by the victim’s side throughout the hardest and easiest