Anorexia nervosa

defined by “ana,” anorexia. “Stay strong. Starve on” is tagged upon multiple posts along with “What the scale says is the most important thing” in order to provide encouragement to achieve this perfect body and meet society’s outrageous standards. A sixteen year old girl, naming herself L, began this free blog in order to reflect upon her life dealing with anorexia, hoping to realize she isn’t alone in the struggle. This soon became a widespread epidemic. As quickly as anorexia became considered…

diagnosed with anorexia. He did not realize how serious it was until he was hospitalized and the Doctor, in Scotland Hospital, break him the bad news. The doctor told Kyle and his family that unless he starts to get treatments, Kyle might only have two weeks left of his life. Luckily, Kyle was able to recover his time and not he his trying to live a healthier life. Anorexia in Boys When Kyle refused to eat, his parents did not notice these changes and an overlooked sign of anorexia. People…

Thomas, John, Wilfred Waluchow, and Elizabeth Gedge, eds. "Case 3.3 Discontinuing Force Feeding of an Anorexia Nervosa Patient. "Well and Good -Fourth Edition: A Case Study Approach to Health Care Ethics. 4th ed. New York: Broadway, 2014. 131-135. Print. This is a case study of a patient who suffers from anorexia nervosa and has been force fed for 4 years in order to keep her alive. No improvements in her mental state have been made in this time, despite the many types of therapy have been…

of the necessities required to sustain our human life, one of the biggest “culture-bound” syndromes that the western part of the world is prone to is eating disorders, specifically anorexia nervosa. Anorexia itself is a medical condition, in which a person is underweight due to medical reasoning, but anorexia nervosa is a condition in which an individual is obsessed with an image of becoming thinner and thinner. With our era molding itself into the digital and technologically advanced society it…

Anorexia? Anorexia is an emotional disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat. It is a lack or loss of appetite for food as a medical condition. (Oxford Dictionary). “Laura,18, died after refusing treatment in anorexia battle”. (Hope 2013) “Anorexia tragedy of teenage cover girl: Parents tell of their grief over 19-year-old who ‘didn’t realize how beautiful she was’.” (Levy 2012) A couple of similar articles were published in the Daily Mail in years 2010,…

As an ever-increasing number of youth and adolescents are gaining access to the internet, the time has come to take a step back to reflect on the potential hazards that this type of exposure can have on the human psyche. In order to investigate an issue as multi-faceted as this however, one must first start with a single aspect - an analogous geodesic, if you will. Given the abundance of research on the topic, investigating the potential links between body dysmorphia and media exposure seems a…

I believe that teenagers have a big problem with their body image, teenagers look at magazines and the media and see Photoshop women and men. This is a social problem because of how teenagers are becoming sick with having the idea that they need to be sex skinny or manly with big broad muscles. Teenagers today look at media images all the time, with commercials, magazines, billboards and models. These pictures make teenagers with different types of bodies feel discouraged about themselves and…

need to try to fully understand eating disorders and then we will know how to treat them. I. Intro A. Why don’t you just eat? 1. People do not understand eating disorders such as anorexia are not as simplistic as not eating. B. Bring awareness to people who do not understand the psychiatric background of anorexia. II. Support #1 A. Eating disorders are mental illnesses and need to be treated like such in order for successful treatment. III. Support #2 A. People trying to recover…

people long believed that eating disorders were old news, that no one currently had an eating disorder. They were wrong. Research showed that thirty million people in the United States alone suffer from eating disorders (National Association for Anorexia Nervosa And Associated Disorders [NAANAD]). Understanding the causes and treatments is vital to understanding eating disorders and how to assist a person who suffers from an eating disorder. Understanding the causes and treatment are key because…

Those negative thoughts and the dissatisfaction of their body can push dieting too far and lead the girls, also women, into having eating disorders like anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is defined on Oxford Dictionaries as an “disorder characterized by an obsessive desire to lose weight by refusing to eat” and defined bulimia nervosa as a “disorder characterized by a distorted body image and an obsessive desire to lose weight in which bouts of extreme overeating are…