Taking Control of Eating with Bulemia or Anorexia Essay

According to the article Eating disorders 101, it states that â€Å"Between 5 and 10 million Americans have anorexia or bulimia†. People may not think of anorexia as an addiction, but in many ways it is. Anorexia usually begins as a diet. People may feel a loss of control and dieting is something that they feel they can have control over, thus feeling better about themselves. People will become closer with their bodies and soon develop a preoccupation with food and fear of gaining weight. The person may begin to notice something wrong but won’t stop dieting because the quest for the perfect thin body has become the most important factor in their life. Some people may think that anorexia is affected only by teens but in fact mothers have a big†¦show more content†¦This could then result in the patient not reaching their full height and developing brittle bones. Many doctors say that weight loss leads to many health effects. The lack of food causes the body to break down and cause to function properly as internal organs, such as the kidneys and liver, begin to shrink. Blood abnormalities include leukopenia (low white blood cells), thrombocytopenia (low platelet counts), and osteopenia (thinning of the bones). Anorexia has a big effect towards teens. According to the book Anorexia by Karen F. Balkin, it states â€Å"My story began 14 years ago when I was 12 years old. I was an awkward middle-schooler who desperately wanted to be beautiful and ached to be popular. I heard enough derogatory fat comments and witnessed enough pointed fingers while growing up to know that I didn’t ever want shunned and ridiculed like that. Therefore, I came to the conclusion that to be beautiful and popular, you needed to be thin.† Some teens may feel the only way to fit in is to lose weight or the other teens will pick on them. The other teens should indeed stop bulling anorexic teens because it’ll encourage them to keep starving themselves. The first step in treating anorexia often is the most difficult one. The person with anorexia must admit that he or she needs help. According to the book Anorexia by Bonnie Graves, it states â€Å"First, the person must be evaluated for any urgent medical problems. The next step is to help the person begin gaining weight byShow MoreRelatedPsy 244 Essay10464 Words   |  42 Pagesself-report (by children and/or parents, other family members, teachers, peers): children don’t remember (infintle amnesia) but parents do experimental: deliberate, controlled manipulated of presumably relevant variables; comparison of â€Å"experimental† and â€Å"control† subjects â€Å"natural experiments† (â€Å"experiments in nature†): observational studies that take advantage of naturally occurring variations along presumably relevant dimensions (Feral â€Å"wild† children, Twins, adoptive, children with physical/structural