Anorexia Nervosa

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Anorexia Nervosa


Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by a fear of being fat, a distorted body image, radically reduced consumption of food, and emaciation (Tavris and Wade, 2002, p. 477). Anorexia can occur in teenage girls and boys, as well as women and men. There are many different symptoms of this disease, but the most common symptoms of anorexia are physical. Although treatment of anorexia is difficult, there are ways of receiving treatment for the disease. Anorexia Nervosa is a very serious disease that can be extremely harmful and sometimes fatal.
“A typical anorexia patient would be a thirteen to fifteen year old white, upper-middle class female” (Gross, 1936, p. 16). Anorexia can also occur in teenage boys and adult men and women (Anorexia Nervosa. para. 1). People with the disease are obsessed with being extremely thin, and see themselves as fat even thought they are excessively thin. The disease is typical among teenage gir...