Anorexia

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Anorexia Bulimia

• Antonella Magnelli

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Distinguishing The Differences

• Bulimia Nervosa is a serious, potentially
  life-threatening eating disorder characterized by
  a cycle of bingeing and compensatory behaviors
  such as self-induced vomiting designed to undo or
  compensate for the effects of binge eating.
• Anorexia Nervosa is a serious, potentially
  life-threatening eating disorder characterized by
  self-starvation and excessive weight loss.

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Distinguishing The DifferencesAnorexia

• Anorexia results in weight loss below 85 percent
  of normal.
• Refusal to eat even if hungry or craving food
• Causes serious, often irrevrsible, physical
  damage, including reduction in bone density that
  enhances the risk of fractures.
• It is estimated that as many as 6 percent of
  those suffering sever anorexia eventually die of
  starvation, biochemical imbalances, or suicide,
  their risk of death is twelve times higher than
  for other young women
• How anorexia evolves within oneself is still
  unknown but an involvement of either genetic
  predispositions, biochemical imbalances, social
  influences, and/or psychological characteristics
  most likely have something to do with it.

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Distinguishing The DifferencesBulimia

• desire to be slender
• Consequences include dehydration, nutritional
  problems, and intestinal damagedental problems
  from the acids associated with vomiting and
  damage to the throat from inserting objects
  frequently down the throat to vomit.
• Bulimia appears to be caused by perfectionism,
  low self-esteem, over concern with thinness and
  attractiveness, and depression.
• Not life threatening like Anorexia is, but still
  causes many problems in the future which are
  listed above

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Questions and Answers(from anorexic/bulimic
point of view)

• What emotions do you feel before, during, or
  after the fact?
• Before extreme guilt, feeling in adequate about
  everything. During that I was compensating for
  what I did, and it would be okay after. After
  why did I do that? But now I wont have to worry
  about eating too much because I can take care of
  it.

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Questions and Answers(from anorexic/bulimic
point of view)

• What is it psychologically that makes you desire
  the process?
• Once past your lips forever on your hips. So
  when I do eat too much thats the only way I feel
  I can remove it quickly before turning into fat,
  if no exercise followed. Eating a little or just
  healthy food, the guilt still triggered.

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Questions and Answers(from anorexic/bulimic
point of view)

• What do you wish are the outcomes? What do you
  want the outcomes to be? What do you think, in
  your mind, the outcomes will be when persuading
  yourself to do the act?
• I wish it wasnt harmful it could be useful to
  make you feel better, not as full. Solution to
  not worry about the intake so I could taste and
  not keep it in me. Loosing weight was number one
  reason.

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Questions and Answers(from anorexic/bulimic
point of view)

• Are you never satisfied? What is the inner voice
  saying that makes you continue?
• Yes, I never felt like I was getting
  anywherecontinued every time I ate. Satisfied
  once I got rid of it, never thought I looked
  better, gained nothing, looked the same.

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Questions and Answers(from anorexic/bulimic
point of view)

• Is it ever satisfying? Are you ever happy? How
  long does the happiness last after it is done?
  5 seconds or 5 days?
• Fine until I eat again because guilt strikes
  again. Continuous process. No reaching an end
  point.

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Questions and Answers(from anorexic/bulimic
point of view)

• Is it worth it? While being in that mental
  state, why do you see it as being worth the risk
  of your life?
• Not worth risking your life, but when in mental
  state, didnt seem as extremely bad as doing
  other harmful things. Way to handle in fast,
  easy, not guilt-full sort of way.

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Questions and Answers(from anorexic/bulimic
point of view)

• Does body image have anything to do with it? If
  so, how much?
• EVERYTHING!!! You see everybody everywhere that
  looks perfect and dont have to do anything
  no problems with body imagedifference is
  metabolism but its NOT fair!

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Questions and Answers(from anorexic/bulimic
point of view)

• Does the media play a role? If so, how much?
• Yes, a HUGE role with everybody wanting to look
  like a star with great bodies. Its that
  striving towards perfection.

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Image Distortions

• Do you see anything wrong with this image?
• Arms not defined, hips to big, chest too big and
  not perky, cheeks too fat, forehead too big.

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Image Distortions

• Do you see anything wrong with this image?
• Broad shoulders, fat hips, chubby jaw line, and
  a big fore head.

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Image Distortions

• Do you see anything wrong with this image?
• Pudgy stomach, legs are plump, and hips are
  wide.

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Image Distortions

• Do you see anything wrong with this image?
• Thighs are chubby and not tight, arms jiggle,
  and fore head is too big.

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Image Distortions

• Do you see anything wrong with this image?
• Stomach is pudgy and not defined, thighs are too
  big, arms are fat, and the hips are fat and
  jiggle.

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Image Distortions

• Do you see anything wrong with this image?
• Besides the second chin her legs are very
  toned, her arms are defined and her belly is flat
  and tight.

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Image Distortions

• The perfect image we all strive to reach is
  different for each and every one of us. Our
  strive is also diverse. As we have seen, some
  individuals will do anything to reach their
  perfect image and others will be satisfied
  without going to the extreme.
• The strive towards perfection is around us all
  and you can never be certain which individual has
  their heart set on being perfect or which
  individual is content at where they are presently.

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Statistics Anorexia

• Approximately 90-95 of anorexia nervosa
  sufferers are girls and women (American
  Psychiatric Association, 1994).
• Between 0.5-1 of American women suffer from
  anorexia nervosa.
• Anorexia nervosa is one of the most common
  psychiatric diagnoses in young women (Hsu, 1996).

• Between 5-20 of individuals struggling with
  anorexia nervosa will die. The probabilities of
  death increases within that range depending on
  the length of the condition (Zerbe, 1995).
• Anorexia nervosa has one of the highest death
  rates of any mental health condition.
• Anorexia nervosa typically appears in early to
  mid-adolescence.

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Statistics Bulimia

• Bulimia nervosa affects 1-2 of adolescent and
  young adult women.
• Approximately 80 of bulimia nervosa patients are
  female (Gidwani, 1997).
• People struggling with bulimia nervosa will often
  appear to be of average body weight.

• Many people struggling with bulimia nervosa
  recognize that their behaviors are unusual and
  perhaps dangerous to their health.
• Bulimia nervosa is frequently associated with
  symptoms of depression and changes in social
  adjustment

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Not only science, but how far do WE go to reach
perfection?
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