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…in depression but also OCD, panic disorder, bulimia and anorexia, schizophrenia, alcoholism, borderline personality disorder, impulsive aggressive behavior, postpartum depression, PMS, social phobia, pedophilia, migraine headaches, and anxiety disorder (Appleton…

…of the confusion that they get from these visuals. The National Eating Disorders Association estimates that between 5-10 million girls and women and 1 million boys and men suffer from anorexia, bulimia, or binging disorders because they fear being fat, and 81 percent…

…for their "flawed" appearances. How dangerous it is to keep an ideal body shape in North America. In a society where people have no time or discipline and want quick results now, losing weight becomes a dangerous game of the mind. Anorexia is higher in North America…

…to development of cancer. Initial symptoms of radiation sickness may include weakness, anorexia, vomiting or diarrhoea. Thus, personnel working with radioactive substances in industry, medicine, or research must wear face masks (prevent ingestion of alpha-emissions…

…enough or not exercising enough. There are still some negatives to this. If the whole country starts loosing weight some people may choose anorexia as a means to fit in. Also, performance enhancers may be taken to better ones performance. It is also a well…

…with the consumer and sometimes drive them crazy. In most of the cases creates an obsession for beauty that can cause eating disorders. Anorexia and bulimia are the most popular eating disorders among young women. However advertisers not only sell this model image…

…to us. While the eating disorder Anorexia-Nervosa was first discovered as early as the 1930’s, its occurance rates have been rapidly increasing at alarming rates since the mid 1950’s. Unsuprisingly enough, the changing images of women in society and the media…

…indicate bulimia or anorexia. Bulimia or anorexia is usually caused by depression. Family problems caused by a teen can be a result of his depressed mind just as Conrad did in the novel Ordinary People. As shown in Ordinary People, a depressed patient may…

…that may have contributed to the development of mental illness. There is a never ending list of mental illnesses and many of them are never going to be fully understood. Some of the other common forms of mental illnesses are alcoholism, anorexia, kleptomania…

…in which there is an overabundance of food and an obsession with thinness. Eating disorder also may be defined, as self-abuse. Two of these disorders, anorexia and bulimia, result from the fear or overeating and of gaining weight. This paper talks about what…