Besides, Valerie reported she had visited a dietitian when her family members considered she had a low weight. Evidence-based treatment Researchers conduct a study to assess “enhanced” cognitive behavior therapy (CBT-E)’s efficacy for anorexia nervosa. The study recruited 99 participants who have anorexia nervosa from UK and Italy, and 64% of participants completed 40 sessions of CBT-E over 40 weeks. The research suggested that after CBT-E treatment, 64% of subjects experienced markedly improvements in weight (Fairburn et al., 2012).…
According to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), the rates of eating disorders have been growing rapidly in the past two decades. Eating disorders are a growing problem due to society’s obsession with thinness and impact over 20 million women. They can have a drastic impact on one’s health, including consequences such as bone loss, kidney damage, and an abnormally slow heart rate (“Getting the Facts on Eating Disorders”). Furthermore, NEDA states that “females with anorexia between ages 15-24 are 12 times more likely to die from the illness than all other causes of death” (“The War on Women’s Bodies”). Therefore, with eating disorders having such dire consequences and drastically impacting young females, it is imperative that this topic is further researched in order to better understand and control the problem.…
The second journal article and Newsweek Cover: “Fighting Anorexia” – New Research Into Its Origins-said its Youngest Victims, examines the factors that may be causing the declining age range of anorexia cases and new treatment options…
The article “Kristina’s Story” by Kristina Saffran explains the eating disorder that she has had since she was ten-years-old. An eating disorder appears in someone’s life most likely when a person is not happy with their appearance, such as their weight. In Kristina’s case she had it differently. Kristina dealt with an eating disorder due to not believing she was not “perfect”, in Kristina’s words she wanted to be a ten not an eight. Kristina’s experienced with her disorder deals with her being hospitalized, when her parents as well as close friend…
'Um...I, uh... I feel kind of angry, I guess. I just... I just don't really... Really get it. You know, just...eat.'…
Introduction On March 31, 2014, a news reporter, Anna Hodgekiss published a heartbreak story of Kyle Carter. Kyle, 17-year-old-boy, was a survivor of eating disorder (UK News, 2014). It started when Kyle was 11 when he was bullied and called “fatty” at the school’s playground. This incident occasionally happens which shattered Kyle’s confidence.…
The dark and twisted world of eating disorders has often been cast into the shadows of America’s attention. Anorexia, in particular, silently plagues one in two hundred American woman. Kelsey Osgood’s tale of her journey with anorexia shed some light on the severe and twisted reality of anorexia. She delineates key issues and aspects of eating disorders in How to Disappear Completely, a book in which she takes a raw look at modern anorexia in America. Osgood candidly writes about her experiences as being a life-long anorexic, and opens up a worthwhile dialogue about eating disorders.…
You are hesitant, but hear my pleading! Anorexia will get easier once you have agreed.” Once I slumped into the sprawling world of Anorexia Nervosa, my life took its turn for the worst. After spending countless of nights loathing in self-pity, I realized my life was becoming a lie.…
For this writing assignment, I watched the documentary Thin, a film that gives a glance inside of what it is like to live with an eating disorder and what the recovery is like. After watching this eye-opening documentary, my views on eating disorders have drastically changed. In this reaction paper, I will express my reactions to the film as well as take a look at the American Psychological Association’s criteria for eating disorders and how they apply to the patients in the film. There were two eating disorders that were apparent in the film that we also covered in class. The first bulimia nervosa, an eating disorder characterized by binge eating and followed by purging and other methods of losing weight.…
Something wasn’t right. You know that feeling when you know exactly what’s wrong but don’t want to admit it to yourself? I felt just that as I stared at my reflection in the full-length mirror on the wall in front of me. I had an entire half hour to leave the house, the extra time being a result of my careful time management, but I didn’t look right. After all, it was the bonfire- the most important event of the entire school year.…
There are many Mental Disorders that are fascinating to learn about, but I wanted to learn a little more about Eating Disorders mostly because it affects people are my age. The movie I decided to watch was Starving in Suburbia (2011) it stars a senior in high school named Hannah Warner (Laura Wiggins) who starts to develop an Eating Disorder more specifically Anorexia Nervosa. An eating disorder is a psychological disorder, also featured with any abnormal eating habits, there are many types of eating disorders the most known are Bulimia Nervosa, Binge eating and Anorexia Nervosa with is the disorder that the film focuses on. Anorexia Nervosa is leaning more to an emotional disorder characterized by an obsession to lose a lot of weight by having…
Starve on” is tagged upon multiple posts along with “What the scale says is the most important thing” in order to provide encouragement to achieve this perfect body and meet society’s outrageous standards. A sixteen year old girl, naming herself L, began this free blog in order to reflect upon her life dealing with anorexia, hoping to realize she isn’t alone in the struggle. This soon became a widespread epidemic. As quickly as anorexia became considered beauty by the media, L’s blog became a campaign to encourage the only ideal that would change her from an unhealthy freak to a beautiful goddess.…
When you have anorexia, the desire to lose weight becomes more important than anything else. You may even lose the ability to see yourself as you truly are.” That is the problem with anorexia: people can not see how they truly are. Karen Carpenter was a young woman when she started suffering of anorexia. She went from one hundred twenty pounds to ninety pounds. She went into hospitalization several and several times because of anorexic and heart problems.…
Body dissatisfaction, or distorted perception of one’s self-image, has become a common problem in today’s society (Ortega-Roldan, 2014). People want to be the skinniest, fittest, and thinnest. Because of this, eating disorders (ED), such as anorexia and bulimia, emerged. Although there are many eating disorders, these are the most common (Walsh, 1998). In short, anorexia is an eating disorder characterized by lack of appetite and weight loss (Lloyd, 2014).…
Many may think eating disorders are not a problem, or many may think that we should look beyond eating disorders. They are a problem of our time and could be for a long time. In fact, “In the United States, 20 million women and 10 million men suffer from a clinically significant eating disorder at some time in their life, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder, or an eating disorder not otherwise specified” (Wade, Keski-Rahkonen, & Hudson, 2011). It is a huge issue as to what causes these eating disorders or why people just won’t stop. The causes are one of the most important steps as to getting starting to one of these eating habits, and this bad habits can lead to a devastating outcome on one’s body.…