Anita case reflects the perfect example of an eating disorder included in the DSM-5 in one single category called feeding and eating disorders. “Three disorders - pica, rumination disorder and avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder- typically begin in infancy or childhood, often among children with intellectual disabilities” (Oltmanns & Emery, 2015, p263).
There are other feeding-eating disorders as anorexia nervosa, and bulimia nervosa that “typically affect adolescent and young adult woman” (Oltmanns & Emery, 2015, p263).
Background Information
Anita is the oldest of three sisters, she started practicing gymnastics when she was 3 years old and competed all the way through high school. Because this sport requires athletes to
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Currently Anita is a full time sophomore in college who lives off campus with a roommate and is enrolled in 5 courses this term to expedite graduation. She also wants to get back into competitive gymnastics for which she tries out for the college gymnastic team.
Risk Factors
Since early in life, Anita was taught to count calories and control food intake, which creates a constant tension in someone that might already, had inherited biological traits from her mother and a maternal aunt whom both had anorexia nervosa when they were younger.
Anita is not just enrolled in 5 courses to expedite her graduation now, which by itself represents an increase of work load, but also wants to get back into competitive gymnastics, for which she tries out for the college gymnastic team, increasing her anxiety levels because she needs to maintain a minimum of B average to keep her mother and coach happy.
Anita’s tendency to create unreasonable goals in life and tendency to perfectionist behavior, led her to try to do all these tasks at the same time, plus volunteer work and expect maintaining a high performance in all of them, creating excessive worries and fear of failure. All these factors are known to be prevalent among individuals with eating disorders.
These factor allied to her inability to trust others creates a situation of psychological isolation, increased sense of insecurity and lack of control that may lead to a disorder as anorexia
There are many different psychological illnesses in the world, each with different causes. While eating is an key function of life, some people may be doing harm to their body with their eating habits. Eating disorders occur when a person has a bad relationship with food and can be deadly. The book Elena Vanishing, by Elena Dunkle and Clare B. Dunkle, gives a better understanding of the background of eating disorders and many reviewers are impacted by the book’s vital message.
It has been found that eating disorders are most common in the western and industrialized culture where food is abundant. This is because these individuals attach a lot of importance to their physical appearance and are willing to do anything to get the dream figure. An eating disorder is not just watching what one eats and exercising on a daily basis but is rather an illness that causes serious disturbances in eating behaviour, such as great and harmful cutback of the consumption of food as well as feelings of serious anxiety about their body shape or mass. They would start to stop themselves to go out anywhere just so that they could work out and burn all of the calories of a meal or snack that they had scoffed earlier. Two of the most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. The regular description of a patient with either disease would be a youthful white female, with an upper social standing in a predictably socially competitive environment.
Many children and adolescents not only express dissatisfaction with their figure, shape and weight, but also exhibit disordered eating behavior, such as binge eating (eating a large amount of food with a sense of lack of control), food restriction, laxative abuse and vomiting. For children and adolescents, eating disorders can overlap in many instances. As an example, some children alternate between periods of anorexia and bulimia. Eating disorders typically develop during adolescence or early adulthood. However, research has shown that they can start in childhood, too. Females are much more vulnerable. Only an estimated 5% to 15% of people with anorexia or bulimia are male. With binge eating, the number rises to 35%
The occurrence of eating disorders are a serious problem worldwide. A major problem with this disease, abnormal eating behaviour that can threaten your health or even your life,(1)
The most common eating disorders among many patients are Anorexia Nervosa (AN), Bulimia Nervosa (BN), and Binge Eating Disorder (BED).
Grace Hauge began gymnastics when she was about 6 years old, and enjoyed it so much. Her mother wanted her to join a more advanced group, so she joined Hamline. She quickly advanced to a more experienced group. There she was asked to join the Spirit Gymnastics club team at Hamline. Luckily she was given a choice and she agreed. During Grace’s six years of training at the Spirit Gymnastics club team, she gained friendships, a fit body, discipline, and time management. Not meaning to seem or sound snobby, Grace and her mother were both aware of what the sport could bring to Grace 's life. However, it was not until Grace 's coach, Doug Burns, also commented on the success ahead of Grace, that Grace felt pressured to follow through with the
In today’s society, it has become hard for the average person to fit the high expectations and perfect mold that has been created by being connected to the internet. With the pressure so high, and competition so intense everyone is striving to become perfect to fit the mold. Eating disorders have become common in many people as a way to change their body image or gain more control over their life, caused by the stress of trying to be one’s best. But it has been overlooked for many years and a lot of people don’t understand the significance of eating disorders and how they affected the lives of not only young women but everyone. Eating disorders are a serious problem that affects the lives of many people and, should not be overlooked.
Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder and Anorexia Nervosa are disorders classified as “eating and feeding disorders” in the DSM-V. An eating disorder is most commonly defined as “any of a range of psychological disorders characterized by abnormal or disturbed eating habits.” Unfortunately, eating and feeding disorders are seldom recognized as extremely prevalent or in desperate need of help. According to the Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, eating disorders have the highest mortality rate of any mental illness.
Before starting first grade and at the insistence of a close family friend, my mother finally decided to check out the gymnastics center in Roanoke, Virginia. Observing this sport was important to her and she actually had me tested for the beginners’ class. Climbing trees and hopping on our trampoline, as a little girl, made for the best days so it only seemed natural that I would fall in love with gymnastics. Beginning at the lowest level and over the subsequent eight years, I would become a competitive Level 8 gymnast. From the beginning, my mother recognized how much I would cherish it. Being part of a military family, on the other hand, required my family to move four times over those eight years and eventually ending up here,
Age. Although people of any age can have binge-eating disorder, it often begins in women’s late teens and
Many people affected by anorexia isolate themselves from the outer world. This can be because of many things; people offering food, people worrying, people asking questions, the looks from others, being looked at by others. They fear weight gain of any sort. No matter how low their weight drops, they will always be stressing over the idea of fat on their bodies. While their BMI and weight
Imagine that Addie, a teenager, has become very self-conscious of her body and felt like she needed to be thin. She would do all she can to get thin. She would look in the mirror and see herself as being fat and ugly. So she chooses not to eat or she binge eat and then purge. Now Addie has what is called an eating disorder. An eating disorder is can be described as abnormal eating to alter the body image due to psychological reasons. According to Janet Belsky, it can also be classified as a pathological obsession with getting and staying thin. (Belsky 252) They are associated with a wide range of adverse psychological, physical, and social consequences. People become obsessed with checking their weight so they are constantly looking
As Brandy got into Oklahoma State University, she lost control of her disorder. She no longer had any normal eating habits. She is becoming quite miserable with herself, despite appearing to be thriving in everything she attempts at Oklahoma State. Her disorder has caused her to become susceptible to social pressures of thinness. She has finally sought
In the recent years eating disorders have become to an increasing public concern. The two most common types of eating disorders are called Anorexia nervosa and Bulimia nervosa. Body dissatisfaction, low self-esteem and unhappiness combined with the fear to gain weight can be determinants. Anorexia nervosa has been defined as a medical condition since the late 19th century and is characterized by an extreme weight loss. Bulimia nervosa has been accepted as medical condition since 1987. It is associated with ‘binge-eating’ in which people are not able to control their food consumption. First they tend to eat an excessive amount of food, afterwards they feel guilty and sufferers drift into excessive dieting, exercising and self-induced purging.
Eating disorders are a huge problem across the nation. Some of these disorders include anorexia nervosa, bulimia-nervosa, binge eating, and body dysmorphic disorder. Anorexia is a disorder in which subject obsesses about food and how much they eat, while a Bulimic person eats an excessive amount of food, then purges. People affected by these disorders are obsessed with food however; they do not want the calories, so they eat as much as they can, then throw it up. Binge eating is a disorder in which a person will eat excessive amounts of food because they cannot control themselves. This previous example is not seen as an eating disorder by itself, but it can be associated with one. When a person has