Personal Narrative: Dealing With Anorexia Nervosa

My freshmen year, surprisingly, passed by quickly. I was so busy with volleyball, basketball, track, and new school rules that I did not have much time to pick apart my body. There was still a part of me obsessing over my weight . I really started picking out my flaws my summer going into my sophomore year. I worked out every day in the summer. I started out by running the bike path that circles through my town once a day. The path’s distance was about 4 miles. Midway through the summer I started running the path once in the morning and once at night. I still was not satisfied with how I looked.

This paper will talk about some of the things that people with eating disorders go through in their daily lives and give a general description of what exactly an eating disorder is and why it is important. Schwitzer Alan M., Bergholz Kim, Dore Terri, and Salimi Lamieh all talk about a few things that they did in order to prevent eating disorders among college woman as well as some of the treatment methods and preventative measure someone can take in order to prevent something like this from happening again. It will also talk about something called the “three-legged stool” which was created by Sackett et al. in 1996. The “three-legged stool” is a treatment method for eating disorders which considers research evidence, patient preference and values, and clinical expertise. There will also be some evidence included to explain why those three things are important in treating eating disorders. Carol B. Peterson, Carolyn Black Becker, Janet Treasure, Roz Shafran, and Rachel Bryant-Waugh all mention how these things will help optimize treatment of eating disorders because patients won’t be forced into doing something that they don’t enjoy in order to overcome their eating disorder. The last thing that will be talked about is a case study conducted by Joanna Steinglass, Karin Foerde, Katrina Kostro, Daphna Shohamy, and Timothy Walsh. This case study attempts to develop a new paradigm

In my research, I explored the world of eating disorders. I wanted to see if there was anything specifically encouraging eating disorders and if there was a way to stop it. Eating disorders affect the community greatly because often times, they go unchecked or unrecognized. As a recovered anorexic, I feel it’s very important to address this issue. It’s a very big problem that is often not addressed at all, or is seen as normal, like counting calories. I hoped to find a way to improve the way that eating disorders are viewed and explain to people about what defines an eating disorder, because many people will never know if it is not explicitly explained to them. My study’s purpose is to bring light into the dark world of eating disorders

When I hear the words “Eating Disorder”, so many things go through my head. A sort of obsession around the topic has plagued my brain since I was thirteen years old. As a twenty-one year old, I can now recognize where it all went wrong, how a lot of minor meal constrictions turned into a full blown illness. As long as I can remember I have always been weird about food, not wanting it to touch, not trying new things or eating anything with sauce on it. When I began eighth grade this became the most apparent. Middle school is a weird time, half of your friends are turning into women, while some are still girls in the eyes of doctors. Regardless, everyone thinks that this time period is the end of the world. During my eighth grade year, my

One bright spring morning I woke up in a very agitated mood. I got up and went through my morning routine. I went through the house and my brother was playing basketball in the house. Little did I know when I got mad at him I would end being disrespectful to the best dad in the world.

Today we live in a world full of ridicule and expectations concerning our body image. The morphed image of a perfect body consists of a skinny and toned waist, perfect hair and makeup, and pearly white straight teeth. Models, actors, singers and other celebrities that everyone idols go to great lengths to make their body perfect. This stressed image of a perfect body has led to an enormous outbreak of mental disorders seen predominately in high school and college students, especially anorexia nervosa. Individuals suffering from this mental health disorder are not fully aware of the severe symptoms and risk factors this disorder brings, or the treatment available to them. Stigmatization and from friends, family and society like self infliction and addiction lead to an internal battle for a person suffering with anorexia.

My name on paper is Mackenzie Bay, but for the past 7 months I have been living as Jack. I am a transgendered man, and I prefer to be referred to as such.

Among the many predicaments women face, dissatisfaction with one 's body is one most women would agree upon. An estimating 91% of women have been, or are currently unhappy with their bodies. In the early 1900’s, the ideal body image of a woman shifted from thick with muscle to a thin frame with almost no curves. Women began to exercise and diet to enhance the human body. The new ideal body image that was promoted in society began leading to excessive thinness and eating disorders affecting individuals today. One type of eating disorder that’s significantly influenced by society 's ideal body image for females is Anorexia Nervosa.

At the young age of twelve I was no longer able to live in the ignorant bliss that most people spend their childhood enveloped in. I bore the responsibility of caring for the life and well-being of my close friend as a parent would towards their child. Even though children typically do not wield much control or influence in many situations they encounter I was still able to help my friend to the best of my ability.

This summer, instead of traveling to California, I returned to treatment for my eating disorder. My test results weren’t looking too good, and this combined with a new provider I did not see eye-to-eye with left me with a terrible attitude.

Ever since I was little, I had a goal to be thin and irrationally beautiful once I entered high school. Maybe it was the daydreams of twirling in a size two prom dress with a gorgeous date and the endless bullying about my appearance that added up to my self destruction. Then again, it was more of a choice that I made myself in the summer before freshman year. The event that I believe sent me into a dangerous spiral was when my grandfather passed away in March of my eighth grade year. As days passed from that tragic date, I remember myself increasingly looking in the mirror with disgust. I would touch my three stomach rolls of fat and pull on them, trying to will them away. Obviously this didn’t work, so that summer I pledged to myself that

There was a ninth-grade girl who seemed to be like every other ninth-grade girl, but she wasn’t, she was different from the rest. She was five-foot four and weighed a measly ninety-five pounds. You could see her bones wrapped up by a thin layer of coarse skin, but there was no muscle to be found. She lied to everyone who asked her if she had a problem. This girl didn’t eat a healthy diet, didn’t exercise her body in a healthy way, and she was slowly withering away into a walking corpse. This girl was me. I was suffering from a disease known as anorexia nervosa. Anorexia nervosa is a disease that has three main features: refusal to maintain a healthy body weight, a strong fear of gaining weight, and a distorted body image (Anorexia

Eating disorders can be one of the most difficult types of conditions to overcome. They are the names given to problems relating to a person’s eating style. Eating disorders aren 't just about how a certain person eats. They are a sign of unhappiness. They are about how people think and feel about themselves, their bodies, and the food that they eat. They are serious health problems. We all live in a world where image is a very important factor in life. It urges people (especially women) to improve their appearances. Eating disorders are not a diet or an experiment to lose weight. It is a serious health problem that can take several years to recover from. They are disorders that are some of the most difficult illnesses to understand and diagnose. Two million people in the world suffer from eating disorders whether it 's anorexia or bulimia . Two thirds of teenage girls and one third of teenage boys do not like their bodies and the weights they are at. Eating disorders are sweeping the country and are often referred to as the “Deadly Diet.” This health problem can begin anywhere from the ages of ten to thirty. The peak age for the beginning of this disorder in females is eleven to fifteen. The obsession of many young girls over their appearance or weight has led to a good amount of people who have developed an eating disorder to try to deal with their lack of self-esteem or other related problems. Eating disorders are serious emotional and physical problems that can have

The eating disorder I had developed to help control my life soon became my whole life. My health began to deteriorate along with my energy. My teammates whom were all previously much slower runners than myself started to pass me on the track; yet, despite my fear of becoming weak, my eating disorder gave me confidence. In a sense, my disease became my new best friend, offering comfort that I could get from nowhere else. In my warped way of seeing the world, I was the only one in control. When my friends would eat “junk food” or skip a day at the gym, I laughed to myself at their “innocence”. I would think, “Clearly, I know something about control that you guys do not. This is what will make me better, stronger and more successful. This is what will prevent average.” Although, as I continued to starve myself and lose weight, surpassing my goal of five pounds, it wasn’t enough. Losing weight

Imagine finding your sister passed out on the floor. Imagine being told that your sister was going to be sent away to a “special hospital.” Imagine missing your sister so much that you didn’t want to wake up on your own birthday. This is what happened to eight year old Emily Moore. It is estimated that a whopping eight million Americans have an eating disorder- seven million women and one million men (Stern). An eating disorder is an obsession with food and weight that harms the person’s well being (Ciotola). Eating disorders aren’t just going on a diet and losing a few pounds, it’s an illness. Some of the most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. A solution to eating disorders is to educate students about