Bulimia nervosa

Anorexia Nervosa The overall goals of treating and managing anorexia nervosa are to restore body weight, establish a positive psychological perception of self, reduce symptoms of the eating disorder, help the patient develop good social skills and support, and manage the physical symptoms and other underlying or comorbid conditions such as depression. These goals are achieved through a variety of strategies that can be combined to produce the best effect depending on the severity of the disorder…

Did you know 10%- 15% of people will die of Anorexia? And 15% of people being treated with Bulimia are men? There are more than 200,000 people suffering with Anorexia and Bulimia. They see themselves “fat” when they are extremely underweight. The effects of these diseases seem to affect the body physically, but they are actually mental disorders. Bulimia and Anorexia are emotional eating disorders. Bulimia is an obsessive desire to lose weight, by extreme overeating, followed by self vomiting…

This week is national eating disorder awareness week, a topic that has been influential in my life. Eating disorders (anorexia in particular) has the highest mortality rate of all mental disorders. It’s hard to know whether it’s from the lack of help available, a general lack of misunderstanding by most of the population, the amount of secrecy involved in this disorder, or a mix of all. This is why I started my wellness coaching business. When I suffered from an eating disorder I got to the…

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?…

downward spiral, ultimately leading to hospitalization or even death. There are many factors that go into these illnesses and its often hard to simply stray away from the bad habits that are related to the eating disorders. Although Anorexia and Bulimia share some common similarities in their symptoms, the two are both very complex. The severity of Anorexia causes people around the world to impose self-starvation on themselves, usually because a low self-esteem or body image. According to…

Marya Hornbacher is the author of Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia. Throughout her autobiography she recounts her struggles of having eating disorders and her battles to overcome the episodes. Hornbacher eloquently describes the physical and mental toll brought on by bulimia and anorexia. As a child, she had obsessive thoughts in having a thin figure, along with being observant with food she and others ate. Her memoir aims to give readers an insight into what people with eating…

Abstract Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an eating disorder where a person is overly occupied with their weight and body shape, so much so one has a fear of gaining weight. This article displays a case study of a patient with anorexia nervosa (Jacobi, Hayward, de Zwaan, Kraemer, Agras, 2008). In this case an adolescent female of 16 is presented with anorexia nervosa and mild depression. The patient met the DSM-IV diagnostic criteria for anorexia nervosa and is undergoing the various patterns to display…

is. What causes eating disorders, and how society plays a role in this. Eating disorders are a serious thing, is causes problems for the body and it is can even lead to death. There are many different types of eating disorders, there is anorexia, bulimia, and…

A lot of people are fat, and they become very sensitive if anybody calls them fat. It seems like they are denying the fact that their bodies are carrying fat more than flesh and bone. However, they cannot deny the fact that fat is unhealthy for them, and they need to stop gaining fat and burn it off their bodies. In “Circulation,” Eckel and Krauss (1998) write that obesity causes many health and heart problems and it may lead to death. Fat people should take a serious step in their lives and…

Eating Disorder. Eating Disorder, specifically Anorexia Nervosa will be measured using the Eating Disorder Inventory-3 (EDI-3; Garner, 2004), which is a revision of the earlier version, EDI-2, both consisting of 91 questions. The EDI-3 has been enhanced to enable the measurement of constructs relevant to the etiology…