Maudsley Family Therapy

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…

“Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices.” Demi Lovato, a famous singer developed an eating disorder when she was around nine years old, along with many other adolescents, who develop the same disease. This is a serious disorder that has one of the highest mortality rates among mental illnesses (Eating Disorder Statistics). Eating disorders aren’t just a choice, they are cognitive and emotional diseases, that force someone to break down. Most teens should be at the…

concerns, depression, feelings of worthlessness and loss of control, family communication problems and an inability to cope with emotions. More importantly, a solution plan should be initiated to present counterclaims for eating disorders. The solution to this ongoing…

anorexic. As time passed I did not speak to her about the condition she was in, because my teacher did. Foster did get thin and thinner, almost too thin to where I felt she was going to faint while dancing. Thankfully a year later she went to group therapy, was healthier and happier and also told me a bit about her disease. I remember her speaking to me about her fantasy. Her fantasy was to become a Victoria Secret model. She was depressed for a couple of months due to moving schools and not…

On July 22, 2011, Alana Goldsmith, a 23 year old Australian woman took her own life by standing in front of an oncoming train. Goldsmith was a long time sufferer of anorexia nervosa and is said to have took her life so she would not have to deal with her negative body image issues anymore. An increasing amount of young women are plagued with to difficulty of suffering from an eating disorder. In many of these instances, the disorder goes unknown for a long, if not whole period of time. These…

excessively, and misuse laxatives. They will also view themselves as overweight even though they are more likely to already be underweight. Treatments for these disorders highly depend on the individual. Treatments offered are individual or group therapy, medical care and monitoring, nutritional counseling, and medications. It is hard to get the people who suffer from eating disorders because it is a mental disorder. They believe that they are so overweight and are blind to the reality that they…

Gender roles are the expectations that are widely accepted by society, about how each gender should behave. Gender stereotypes are the fixed and far to expected beliefs of how women and men should behave. The difference between these two are that gender roles, are the do’s and don’ts according to your gender, and gender stereotypes are how they expect you to behave based on a grouped understanding. Rathus (2010) Physical traits of men are that they have deeper voices, facial hair, more body…

factors contribute almost equally to fostering these disorders, stating that the risk of developing an eating disorder is 50-70% genetic and 30-50% environmental. To illustrate the role of genetics, it is commonly noted that eating disorders may run in families; girls that have a parent or sibling with an eating disorder are at a greater risk of developing one themselves (Goldberg,…

obsessive or compulsive personality traits have been known to develop anorexia nervosa, as they find it easier to adhere to strict diets and resist the temptation to eat. Family If you have a parent or other family member who has/had anorexia nervosa, you are more likely to develop the disorder than someone without that family background. Parents who are constantly dieting, parents who are very focussed on physical appearance and parents who often criticize other people’s bodies are more likely…

“Alicia is fifteen years old and weighs sixty pounds. She refuses to eat, because as she says, ‘Once I start I will just keep gaining weight and gaining weight and it won’t stop.’ She has suffered a heart attack, weakened kidneys, and is blind in one eye. She has been hospitalized about fifty times, during which she was force-fed until her weight returned to a minimum that would allow her to return home. Each time she relapsed and started starving herself again. Her parents are crushed. They are…