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…Many people suffer from the condition known as anorexia nervosa. Often the victims go through a number of symptoms that can lead to a serious amount of problems concerning a person’s weight, happiness, and personality. People should keep a close eye…

…Anorexia nervosa is refusal to maintain body weight at or above a minimally normal weight for age and height Intense fear of gaining weight or becoming fat, even though underweight. Disturbance in the way in which one's body weight or shape…

…episodes of Anorexia Nervosa. Specify Type: Purging type: during the current episode of Bulimia Nervosa, the person has regularly engaged in self-induced vomiting or the misuse of laxatives, diuretics, or enemas. Nonpurging Type: during the current episode…

…Anorexia Nervosa By: Anonymous Colleges and universities around the country are reporting an increased prevalence of eating problems among young female students. Difficulties include obsession with food, starvation dieting, severe weight loss…

…Anorexia and Bulimia: A Concise Overview As many as 20% of females in their teenage and young adult years suffer from anorexia nervosa or bulimia nervosa (Alexander-Mott, 4). Males are also afflicted by these eating disorders, but at a much lower…

…Anorexia Nervosa, a mental illness in which a person has a severe and constant fear of gaining weight and a vague observation of their actual weight and body shape. People with this illness believe themselves to be fat even when their weight is so low…

…Anorexia Treatment Here's a question, how would you feel if you found out that your friend had just committed suicide? How would you feel if you knew you could have stopped her/him from doing it years ago? That's what I call Anorexia Nervosa, suicide…

…consumed. Bulimics repeat this binge-purge cycle from once a week to many times a day. Most often the cycle is done in secret. Bulimia may also be used in conjunction with anorexia nervosa, where the sufferer undergoes a binge-purge cycle followed…

…of course, and I gained weight rapidly. I loathed myself and only continued with normal life by pretending to be ‘normal’.” Bulimia Nervosa is a psychiatric disorder that is characterized by recurrent eating binges that are followed by self-induced vomiting…

…common eating disorder. Anorexia nervosa (a-neh-RECK-see ah) is an eating disorder that mostly occurs (about 59%) in adolescence girls, but it can also occur among teenage boys and adult men and women. Usually, anorexia begins between the ages of 14 to 18 when…