Essays on Anorexia Nervosa

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Eating is still considered as a responsibility of every individual, especially for the younger ones. Living in the healthiest way possible is a one great achievement that every young adult must obtain and maintain. This is the best way to prepare for the future, the time when the body is more vulnerable to diseases and complications. Prevent eating disorders, as these will lead to conditions, particularly in the weakening of the overall physical condition of an individual. However, in the recent study, it is determined that the adolescence years are the time when eating disorders trigger most of the ...

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Abnormal Psychology Media Promotions Affecting Anorexia Nervosa and Obesity Parenting Magazine Article Lay Audience Media Promotions Affecting Anorexia Nervosa and Obesity Eating habits are greatly influenced by what people see online or on TV. Media covers a variety of things, from products helpful in losing weight to junk food and enticing eatables. Therefore, it is necessary to explore the effect of media on people in terms of their dietary habits. This paper addresses the cause-effect relationship between media and weight-related issues. Eating disorders and obesity are the most discussed topics nowadays, especially among children and adolescents. Our society has ...

Alzheimer’s Disease and Anorexia Nervosa

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Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by food restriction to the point of potentially losing a significant amount of weight and being life threatening. According to the National Eating Disorders Association (NEDA), the mortality statistic of this condition is between 5-20%, making it one of the highest of all psychiatric disorders. It is common for sufferers to be underweight, have obsessions surrounding fears of gaining weight, compulsions to over-exercise, and low self-esteem and poor body image due to these acts and maladaptive thought patterns that reinforce a deeply rooted negative self-image (NEDA, “Anorexia”). An eating disorder is caused ...

Introduction

In order for the psychiatrists to be able to treat a condition effectively, the specific cause of the condition must be identified in order to come up with the best form of treatment. For example, in order to effectively treat a biological condition, the practitioners must have in place biological forms of treatment in order to treat the cause (King, 2012). With this is clear that the etiologies play a major role in order to come up with the best form of therapy for the patient. This essay will address the various forms of disorders and further stipulate the ...

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The current paper critically evaluates the research study conducted by Zenobia Chan and Joyce Ma (2003). The purpose of the paper is to attempt to develop an understanding of qualitative assessment provided in the selected journal article by critiquing and appraising the research. Chan and Ma (2003) explored the patient’s subjective experience of anorexia nervosa and assessed that how people with anorexia nervosa exhibit certain expressions of annoyance, apprehension, and nervousness. The study of Chen and Ma proves that anorexia nervosa is an affecting disorder in a human being that is characterized by an obsessive desire to lose ...

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Males may suffer from eating disorders and body image issues. Estimates show that more than 20% of patients with anorexia nervosa – a psychological disorder in which a patient thinks that he or she is too fat despite being emaciated – and bulimia nervosa – a disorder in which a person has alternative feelings of strong craving for food and aversion to food – are men. In men, patients with bulimia nervosa are more than the patients with anorexia nervosa. However, males have less inclination to bulimic compensatory behaviors such as laxative abuse or vomiting as compared to females, and ...

Introduction

The topic selected from the textbook is in chapter 8 eating disorders in abnormal psychology. Eating disorders are abnormal psychological disorders that are characterized by abnormal food attitudes that make an individual change their diet. Often people who suffer from eating disorders focus on their body shape and weight excessively making them adopt unhealthy food behaviors that pose as a risk to their health. In regards to the above information, the paper analyzes Attia and Walsh article on anorexia nervosa abnormal psychology eating disorder.

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The condition is quite common especially among young women in most industrialized nations where the ...

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Background Information According to ANAD of the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, anorexia is the top three long term disorder of teenagers (“Anorexia Facts,” n.d.) Among women ages 15-24, anorexia is the most common cause of death (“Anorexia Facts,” n.d.)

Definition

Anorexia nervosa is a condition in which a person deny the feelings of hunger, and they starve themselves because they believe that eating will cause them to get fat even if they are already below their ideal weight (Graves, 2000). Thesis: Anorexia nervosa is a serious issue that affects our society; therefore, it is ...

There is a growing awareness among clinicians and researchers alike (despite a paucity of solid, supporting epidemiological data) that the eating disorders, anorexia nervosa and bulimia, are appearing in certain segments of the population at an increasingly alarming rate Lucas, Beard, Kranz, & Kuriand, 1983). These are eating disorders that can have quite similar manifestations and different origins (sometimes they are endocrinological, while sometimes they can be therapeutic or even psychological-psychiatric). However, the main cause of these diseases is a distorted view of own body and an altered attitude to the process of nutrition. The term anorexia nervosa means nervous ...

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FIND SOURCES APPROPRIATE FOR THE TOPIC OF THE PAPER WRITE INTRODUCTION FOR THE PAPER WRITE CONCLUSIONS FOR THE PAPER Introduction Anorexia nervosa is one of eating disorders which appears, as a rule, in young women in the age 12-25 years. However, cases when males become anorexic patients also can be found. The main features of anorexia nervosa: weight loss of more than 15% of the initial weight, pathological belief in own obesity despite the extremely low weight, amenorrhea. At the center of disease is persistent desire to lose weight, which patients try to achieve using diets, exercise, and even ...

The world of fashion is the area, which lures and charms both men and women. But very few people really know what it means to be a model and how much modeling industry negatively affects health of tender young women. Modeling industry is much criticized for that negative impact it has on the health of girls wishing to look as perfect as models and have such tender bodies as their favorite models. In the paper, we are going to concentrate on the topic how modeling industry affects models` health and discuss whether this industry shall be regarded responsible for ...

Eating disorders are characterized by the changes in a person’s eating behavior that is either a significant reduction of food or substantial overeating. The causes of these states may vary from the feelings of distress to the concern about one’s body and therefore one’s appearance. As a rule, adolescents and young adults suffer from eating disorders, but children and older adults may face these problems too. Anorexia, bulimia and binge eating are the primary types of eating disorders ("Eating Disorders | Psychology Today", 2015, n.p.).

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Eating disorders, which include anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and binge eating without purging the food, have become increasingly common with the constant change of unhealthy demands towards female and male bodies popularized through media. While people of both genders and all ages are susceptible to this set of disorders, adolescent girls are considered an especially vulnerable group. According to Goodheart, Clopton., & Robert-McComb (2012), about 14% of adolescent girls have subclinical eating problems, while 30% of teenage girls having anorexia nervosa will continue suffering from this disorder in the course of their entire lives (p. 33). The worst consequence of ...