The Unhealthy Behavior Called Anorexia

We have talked about many things in class that the Western culture has probably created. The obsession with perfection and body image in our society has caused many problems, one of which being anorexia. Anorexia is not just about having no fat or feeling overweight. Organs start shutting down and hair grows in places that it doesn’t normally grow to insulate the body. It can be very dangerous, and even life threatening. The desire to be perfect physically, has caused a major medical problem for some people. Hospitals won’t even take these people once they are at the end of life stage because there is nothing they can do.

The 2016 scientific article Disrupting the Habits of Anorexia by Deborah R. Glasofer and Joanna Steinglass explore the results of a study on how a person’s habitats can sometimes be a hazardous to their life. The article specifically explores the struggles of anorexia through the story of a woman named Jane. In the article it shows how the struggles from an eating disorder like anorexia can become difficult to overcome because American culture often favors thin people and eventually overtime habits form that only progress the negative aspects of the disorder. For example, Jane would weigh herself twice a day and keep a written record of the food that she ate each day. Through the study Jane learned that her disorder and the behaviors it caused

According to the Diagnostic Statistical Manual Anorexia is when a person goes through extreme measures to starve themselves in order to fulfill an unwanted psychological need in order to maintain control of an uncontrollable factor in their life (Diagnostic, 2000). Some of the symptoms of a person with an Anorexic Disorder may include: “a refusal to maintain [proper] body weight, [an] intense fear of gaining weight,” although they have already undergone serious weight loss, and any “disturbing” changes to their body which one believes should not be present. (Diagnostic, 2000). These symptoms are also connected with many health issues which can lead to a decline

Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by an intense fear of putting on weight with a negative attitude towards body weight (medical dictionary). Due to this extensive fear, people eventually starve themselves leading to extremely low body weights. People suffering from Anorexia take extreme efforts to keep their body weights in check by limiting the amount of food they eat. These efforts range from excessive exercise, misusing diet aids to vomiting after eating just to reduce the level of calorie intake. However, it should be noted that Anorexia is less of an issue about food but more of a mental problem whereby people suffering from it equate

Prevalence of anorexia nervosa (AN) continues to be on the rise. AN has the highest lethality of all psychiatric conditions; its chronicity is due to high levels of psychiatric morbidity, common relapse, unknown etiology, and great variability in the course of illness and final outcome (Guarda, 2008). Characterized by pathological food-restraining behaviors, intense fear of gaining weight, and distorted perceptions of one’s body weight and size (Hooley, Butcher, Nock, & Mineka, 2016), this paper will examine the etiology, assessment, prognosis, and treatment of anorexia nervosa.

Anorexia Nervosa: “A disorder in which an individual refuses to maintain minimally normal body weight, intensely fears gaining weight, and exhibits a significant disturbance in his/her perception of the shape or size of his/her body.” (NEDA, 2007) This disorder involves self-starvation and extreme weight loss. This disorder is also known as a referred to as Anorexia or “Ana” by

They restrict how much food they eat, calories and how much high fat or high sugar foods they can have. They consume low calories to maintain a healthy weight. It is a heartbreaking form of self-starvation. Some causes of Anorexia have been said that it is due to individual's genetics, personality traits, and environmental factors. Examples of Environmental factors are: The thinness culture of the media that constantly reinforce thin people as stereotypes. Professions and careers that promote being thin and/or weight loss. Such as weight loss programs and modeling. Family and childhood traumas: such as childhood sexual abuse, severe trauma, and bullying. Peer pressure among family, friends, and co-workers to be thin or sexy. Anorexia signs and symptoms that reveal an individual that is suffering from it are : Chronic restrictive eating or dieting that is beyond the normal, they're losing weight rapidly or being underweight, obsessed with how much calories and fat are in the food that they eat, they cut their food in tiny pieces, eating alone, and/or hiding food. In women, they can be going through Amenorrhea. It is an abnormal absence of their

Anorexia nervosa is a very serious disease that involves the mind and the body. This paper will describe the disease itself, signs and symptoms, diagnostic measures, treatment and complications, and nursing considerations. After reading this paper the reader will be more knowledgeable about the disease and how to acknowledge patients who are suffering with anorexia nervosa and treat them accordingly.

Eating disorders are serious conditions involving extremely unhealthy dietary habits. The two most common eating disorders are anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. In the past few decades, eating disorders have become more and more prevalent in western countries. A lot of people suffered from the diseases, for example, famous Princess Diana has struggled with bulimia for many years. It should be kept in mind that eating disorders occur not only in adults, but also in young people. In fact, many eating disorders are first being diagnosed in adolescents. The adolescents with eating disorders often fight against body weight control by the means of starvation, binging or purging. However, the intense preoccupation with being thin and the lifestyle it entails can be life-threatening. Therefore, in order to reduce the rate of eating disorders in adolescents and help them recover, the media, families, and schools need to come together to offer support and create change.

Voltaire once said, “Nothing would be more tiresome than eating and drinking if God had not made them a pleasure as well as a necessity.” This quote makes me remember that as much pleasure as food may bring us, we should never forget that we need it to survive. I guess most of us don’t, but once again, I remembered there are some people who do. If we were to look the world as a whole, we would realize that from every 100 teenage girls, 1 to 5 suffers from Anorexia(EDV).

Anorexia is a serious disease that has affected many people in today’s society. 10-15% of all Americans experience the ill effects of some kind of genuine dietary problem and one out of two-hundred women experience anorexia. Anorexia is a disease that has been occurring among people because of society 's high standards. It is a serious emotional disorder that is characterized by the fanatical yearning to get in shape by neglecting to eat.

Anorexia is an eating disorder and a mental condition that can be life threatening if not well managed. People suffering from this condition have several common characteristics that includes trying to reduce weight even when they do not weigh much, they suffer from their body image due to low self-esteem thinking they are overweight when they are not, and most of them have been found to exercise a lot with the intension of losing weight. The individuals suffering from anorexia tend to more often hide their eating behavior to their family and friends by lying about what they eat. This condition is believed to be a combination of both internal and external conflicts in their life (Spettigue & Henderson, 2004).

Goldberg (2016) notes that although anorexia essentially means "loss of appetite," this definition is inaccurate as people with this disorder are in fact, hungry, but refuse to eat. Individuals suffering from anorexia, tend to have an obsessive fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, so they start behaving in ways that causes them to lose an excessive amount of weight, by either restricting the amount of food consumed, exercising too much, or starving themselves (Anorexia Nervosa: Signs, Symptoms, Causes, And Treatment; Smith, Melinda, M.A., and Jeanne Segal, Ph.D). These individuals have a distorted perception of themselves, believing that they are too fat, when they are in fact underweight, as well as overly weighing themselves to see if they gained any weight, overly obsessing over food labels and nutrition, and developing "strange eating habits," such as "cutting food into tiny pieces, eating alone, and/or hiding food;" In addition. people struggling with this disorder tend to have a low self esteem, feel hopeless, and become socially withdrawn from family, friends, and activities they once enjoyed. ("Anorexia: Signs, Symptoms, Causes & Treatment Help;" Smith, Melinda, M.A., and Jeanne Segal, Ph.D; Goldberg, Joseph, MD).

Learning About Anorexia Anorexia. What is it? The dictionary describes anorexia nervosa as ''a mental illness in which a person has an intense fear of gaining weight and a distorted perception of their weight and body shape''. In simple terms, this means that people with this illness believe themselves to be fat even when their weight is so low that their health is in danger. Also, a person with anorexia nervosa strictly controls what he/she eats and usually becomes extremely thin.

Anorexia is firstly, not a physical disease, nor is it a lifestyle choice, Anorexia is in fact a mental disorder whereby the sufferer sees themselves as much larger than they actually are. This will lead to them having an obsession over what they eat and how much they eat. Their aim is to have as low a body weight as possible, and in order to do so they will often starve themselves, or exercise excessively. To many, body weight is inversely proportional to self-worth, meaning that the lower their body weight the higher their self-worth.