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    and mentally, called Anorexia nervosa. Such a disease takes progress and time to overcome, and took me a year and half to recover from. A year and a half? Why couldn't you just eat more food? These two questions always arise when I tell people my story. However, people don't realize that if recovering from anorexia was as simple as putting more food in

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    Anorexia in Teens: Interventions Introduction As a person who personally was diagnosed with Anorexia (AN), I’ve experienced just how detrimental it can be to one’s family. “With 2,000,000 adolescents and young adults affected, AN is the third most common chronic condition among adolescent girls, behind obesity and asthma” (Carlton & Pyle, 2007, pg. 9). Not only does this disease affect women, it also affects men. Through the Parent Education and Support Program, COPE intervention, and accepting

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    spread of anorexia and Photoshop of models in unrealistic manner that does not meet any ones quota but feels impossible yet desirable to achieve. This is the standards the fashion industry has set. You are not a sketch is a simplistic advertisement making the viewer aware to take health and body figure more serious. This fashion sketch is conceptually represents of visual emphasis, distortion and defining features on the female model. The type of contact that is a render in drawing of anorexia. The

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    pavement. In this instant, the body has lost consciousness, but then it wakes up, shakes off the pain, and continues moving. A majority of anorexia’s victims are lucky enough to survive these events, but numerous anorexics would never stand again. Anorexia is a parasite that is currently compromising the physical, emotional, and social well-being of nine million people. These men and women deserve to live their lives, but time will tick past each of these survivors. When I learned that valuable lesson

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    As an adolescent who met with anorexia accompanied with an anxiety disorder at a very early age, I can say that my mental illness is what made me the person I am today. When I came to a point that I wished not to wake up tomorrow, deep down I knew something was wrong inside me but it still took me so long to accept the truth that I was suffering from a psychological disorder and people’s reactions to it made it much more harder to deal with. Although I was acquainted with the process of treatment

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    stay. The girl finally realised she was extremely sick. She was sick with anorexia nervosa. Anorexia is a type of eating disorder that is characterised by extreme weight loss, restrictive eating or purging, and a fear a gaining weight. Anorexia Nervosa is a sereve illness that is accompanied by life-threatning

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    Anorexia Nervosa - “a pathological fear of weight gain leading to faulty eating patterns, malnutrition, and usually excessive weight loss.”("Anorexia Nervosa.") Mental illnesses refer to disorders generally characterized by dysregulation of mood, thought, and/or behavior ("Mental Illness."). Anorexia Nervosa is a mental illness. The University of Maryland’s Medical Center makes this observation as well stating, “Anorexia nervosa is a psychiatric disorder characterized by abnormal eating behavior

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    Anorexia nervosa is a harrowing mental illness for those affected by it. Those diagnosed with anorexia experience a relentless fear of weight gain and distorted body image, accompanied by disturbed patterns of eating in order to lose as much weight as possible. These individuals maintain a dangerously low body weight, which can lead to severe health complications. Due to the deadly nature of this mental illness, it is imperative to treat the affected individual as effectively as possible. There is

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    eat for days, or weeks at a time. This is a disease called anorexia nervosa. Anorexia is not same as dieting. Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder where one finds their self worth in their weight, refuses to eat because they believe they will gain weight, thinks they are

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