Anorexia Nervosa In Wintergirls By Laurie Halse Anderson

A girl named Katie had some big problems in her life when she was 14 years old. Her parents had trouble in their marriage that made little Katie really depressed. Also, her family decided to move to another house. Those things led her to an eating disorder called anorexia. A young girl thought if she weighed less, her life would be perfect. It seemed that thinner people had a better life. She lost a lot of weight and ended up in a hospital. Her doctor realized that Katie needs some help and she was sent to a psychiatric clinic where she had to stay for 9 months. 5 years later she is fully recovered (Anorexia nervosa). Only one third of people who suffer from anorexia in the United States get treatment (Eating Disorder Statistics). For individuals it is really hard to search for some help and they might not want to be normal again. “Who wants to recover? It took me years to get that tiny. I wasn’t sick. I was strong,” said Laurie Halse Anderson, author of “Wintergirls”. Anorexics think that they are really fat, but actually they are dangerously thin. Anorexia is an emotional eating disorder when a person refuses to eat properly and he wants to starve himself because he feels …show more content…
There are many ways for treatment and therapy. Firstly, a person has to admit the disease and he has to start eating food full of nutrition and gain some weight. Support from friends and family is also really important in this situation. It is really easy to go back to old habits that’s why the closest people have to pay a lot of attention. Some victims need to spend some time in the hospital, but it is only for their good (Eating Disorders). Other patients start psychotherapy, such as talk about their problems. The third way of dealing anorexia is medicine, such as antidepressants. A myriad of people who suffer from an eating disorder are under depression or anxiety (Eating Disorders). It is not impossible to recover, but it needs a lot of