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…Eating Disorders Eating disorders are devastating and harmful behavioral patterns that occur with in people for numerous reasons. The three types of eating disorders I will be discussing include the three most common of the disorders: anorexia…

…are anorexia and bulimia. Individuals with anorexia are unwilling or unable to maintain a body weight that is normal or expectable for their age and height. They typically display a pronounced fear of weight gain and dread becoming fat although they are dramatically…

…, and Londre 2002:1-2). The idea that any weight or size is obtainable has driven many people to debilitating eating disorders such as anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa (O'Dea and Abraham 2002: 1). Both of these are serious conditions for which those affected…

…, carcinoma and dietary deficiencies (B12, B1, and folic acid). Various drugs can cause depression. Psychological disorders that may mimic depression include adjustment reactions, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, obsessive…

…Eleven million women in the United States suffer from eating disorders- either self-induced semi-starvation (anorexia nervosa) or a cycle of bingeing and purging with laxatives, self-induced vomiting, or excessive exercise (bulimia nervosa) (Dunn, 1992…

…to the biological and psychosocial changes that occur during the adolescent period. Many teen girls suffer with anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder in which girls use starvation diets to try to lose weight. They starve themselves down to skeletal thinness yet still…

…plaques. 24. animism: crediting inanimate objects with life and life-like properties such as feelings. 25. anniversary reaction: changes in behavior related to feelings of sadness on the actual anniversary of a death. 26. anorexia nervosa: persistent refusal…

…depression include adjustment reactions, anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, anxiety disorders, substance abuse, obsessive-compulsive disorder, dysthymia, seasonal affective disorder, and abnormal bereavement reactions. Panic disorder commonly co-exists…

…to almost life altering decisions. Anorexia nervosa is the refusal to eat despite normal appetite because of the overwhelming fear of being overweight or actually being overweight (Fadem 123). Bulimia nervosa is, in short terms, binge eating (Fadem 122). Both…

…to an unrealistic body image and a myriad of influencing factors. Disordered eating occurs along a continuum from occasional overeating or restrictive eating to severe disorders including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, and compulsive eating and/or exercising (Davis…