Category: Anorexia

Heighted Attentional Capture by Visual Food Stimuli in Anorexia Nervosa was a study done to test patients with anorexia nervosa and food stimulation. This study was done in 2017 to test the hypothesis that patients with anorexia nervosa are insensitive to the attentional capture of food stimuli. This means the researchers were testing to see…

After the patient’s urine is analyzed using dipsticks and based on the information and results obtained during the test, the disease that the patient is suffering from can be diagnosed as anorexia nervosa. In this report, I will explain how I made this diagnosis. The first indication that led to this decision is from the…

Emotional well-being is something that alludes to our perspective and our capacity to adapt to the regular things that are going on around us. Somebody with ‘great’ psychological wellness often feels fit for managing the distinctive ordinary circumstances that they end up in. A psychological well-being issue that will be further explained in more profundity…

The anorexia is an eating disorder that is characterized by an extremely low weight. It is very dangerous illness, in some cases, it can produce the death. Sick people can slim down from 15% to 50% of their weight. The starting´s age of anorexia is located in the adolescence (around 12-14 years old), although it…

Abstract The purpose of this research paper is to educate people about mental issues and its symptoms and specifically about eating disorders because it is usually not considered an actual eating disorder, and to educate people about the effects it leaves on the body, physically and mentally. Definition Anorexia Nervosa is a psychological and potentially…

There is evidence from the 12th Century of religiously motivated self-starvation where eating food was looked at as a sin and restricting food meant paying devotion towards God. (Bishopp, 2018) In 1689 physician Richard Morton named the disorder the wasting disease which may be more accurate than the term Anorexia which Sir William Gull explained…

To the Bone focuses on a twenty-year-old college dropout named Ellen (or Eli) who is struggling with anorexia nervosa (AN). Her stepmom is out of treatment options until Ellen meets an unconventional doctor who accepts her into his program, which consists of staying in a group home for six weeks and recovering from eating disorders.…

In this article, twenty girls were put into the three categories of being pre-pubertal, pubertal, and post-pubertal when anorexia nervosa was diagnosed, (Warren,1968, pg 39). Warren examined the girls under a variety of factors, psychiatric symptoms, and their reaction to treatment while in the hospital. The prognosis of anorexia nervosa appears among young girls and…

Eating disorders are serious illnesses, which affect all kinds of people, characterized by a disturbance with ones body image, food and weight. Examples include Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge Eating Disorder. These disorders arise from a rejection to changes around the person, which becomes a rejection to food. These illnesses have a devastating impact…

In todays society the topic of if individuals with anorexia nervosa should be able to withdraw from life sustaining treatment is still an ongoing debate. On one side you have to weigh the option of how much the patients autonomy and competence play into their decisions of being able to assess their quality of life.…