Anorexia

An eating disorder is a dangerous mental health condition where those affected experience extreme disturbances within their eating behaviors. These disturbances can manifest in ones emotions, thoughts, and physical eating habits. Someone diagnosed with an eating disorder may ruminate over the thought of food, body-image, and exercise to the point where it gravely interferes with…

O’Connor and Esterik (2008) explain anorexia in terms of as an activity in their study. O’Connor’s daughter was suffering from anorexia when she was a teenager. After her recovering, Becca said that she could not understand why anorexia attracted her. Becca believes it was her desire to have a perfect body. In order to reach…

Introduction Brandy is a nineteen-year old caucasian female. She is five foot, five inches tall and currently weighs one hundred and sixteen pounds. Brandy has survived by her mother and father. Brandy’s mother was a severely overweight female. The relationship between her parents was unhealthy. Brandy’s father was verbally abusive to her mother concerning her…

Eating disorders are something that I have always heard about, but have never had any personal encounters with. They are a topic that has been widely discussed in psychology and health courses that I have had the opportunity to take throughout both high school, and college. It is for this reason that I have chosen…

Nowadays a lot people have been diagnosed with an eating disorder. From all the age groups, adolescents have suffered the most. There can be many causes for an eating disorder, it can be because of heredity, peers or the media. In Piaget’s theory of “cognitive development in adolescence” explains how they can call an eating…