Creative Writing: Bulimia Nervosa

It was the year 1996 in the month of June, I will never forget that month and year because it

‘It’s like I never knew what self-respect was all about until now. The thinner I get, the better I feel…this has become the most important thing I’ve ever done. ‘

“I am going to get the kids meal though because I am not that hungry. I won’t eat it if we take it go.”

“Come on, try some,” my dad beckoned. “We might be filling up on it if the rest of the food is bad,”

“Some people say I was lucky to survive, other will say I deserved it for the choice I made. I’m here to say I was lucky, it’s never ok to say your life isn’t worth living even at your worst you can always look forward tomorrow will come and if you put your mind to it you’ll see that anything is possible.” – Stephen McGregor Professional Paralympian

He does this to show what goes through his mind when he is trying to acquire food for himself, and he gives a broad insight on how difficult it is to find healthy, non-poisoned food to eat in an everyday life.

could not resist taking a bite for when he knew that he had been made

Anorexia Nervosa is usually psychological as well as possibly an eating disorder which is life-threatening well-defined by a tremendously low body weight comparative to stature, great and needless weight loss, fear of gaining weight and distorted discernment of an individual’s self-image and body. There are several clinical factors of this eating disorder, and they are the following: the victim has a tendency of fearing his normal body weight where in this case, a person fears to be fat. In other words, the fear of normal body weight is very common in this eating disorder which is observed as a pathognomonic of the situation. In the case of Joshua, his parents should understand that he fears to get fat such that he already feels that his body

the hot tub and wrote down the calories in every bite of food” (Anderson 77). Clearly, they

Jack felt pressured by his kidnaper and his unexpected childlike enthusiasm for cooking. So without further inquiry, Jack placed the foreign substance in his mouth. “Wow, that’s the most amazing thing I’ve ever tasted!”

When it was written down, he glared at a fat boy and laughed " It spells 'EAT', clearly something you do too much!"

Gawain polished off the rest of his ham slice. “Well, you shouldn’t hold all that in. It’ll give you a stomach ache or something. Might make your brain bleed.” He waved his hand Percival’s plate. “Eat your damn ham. That’ll help.”

In the book “Boys Get Anorexia Too : Coping with Male Eating Disorders in the Family,” author Jenny Langley briefly describes about anorexia nervosa, and the short-term and long-term effects of it. Anorexia is a disease involving intentional starvation, an obsession with food and weight related issues, and extreme weight loss. Langley notes that people with anorexia will deprive themselves of vital nutrients through severely restricting food intake. Despite this excessive weight loss, the person will continue to feel overweight. They deny the fact that they are at a dangerously low body weight and fear being fat. Thus, the body is forced to slow down all of its processes to conserve energy, or resulting in serious medical consequences. Langley

Diagnosing potential Anorexia nervosa is not always easy, and Alicia’s case, based on information given and her representation, is not clear cut. Researchers argue that the diagnosis has to be done carefully and potential ambiguities have to be resolved (Baer & Blais, 2010). For example, some researchers have argued that one criterion, such as a fear of being fat, can decrease significantly when the person actually loses some weight (Surgenor & Maguire, 2013). For reasons like this, selecting the primary question, namely whether or not the patient has Anorexia

The entry starts off with Livy battling with her eating disorder in her mind as she contemplates ordering pizza for dinner. Although she wants so badly to have a slice of pizza, her eating disorder or “ED” is quick to remind her that she must calculate all of the calories in the pizza because she mustn't allow herself to eat more calories than she is supposed to that day. She is reminded by “ED” that if she does eat the pizza, she may not fit in her favorite jeans. Livy then feels forced to look up the nutritional facts and calculates the calorie amount of each slice of pizza. “ED” then chimes in stating, “Completely out of the question!” She then feels that if she eats the pizza, she would have to skip meals, and if she becomes bloated, she must take a laxative to eliminate the bloat. This entry in particular reminded me