Acepted Symptoms By J. P. Feighner Case Analysis
ANOREXIA
Acepted symptoms, published by J.P.Feighner and associates in 1972
1. Onset prior to the age of twenty-five
2. Lack of appetite accompanied by loss of at least 25 percent of original body weight.
3. A distorted, implacable attitude to eating, food, or weight that overides hunger, admonitions, reassurance, and threats; for example, (a) denial of illness with a failure to recognise nutritional needs, (b) apparent enjoyment in losing weight with overt manifestation that refusing food is a pleasurable indulgence, (c) a desired body image of extreme thiness with overt evidence that is rewarding to the patient to achieve and maintain this state, and (d) unusual handling or hoarding of food.
4. No known medical illness that could …show more content…
account for the anorexia and weight loss.
5. No other known psychiatric disorder, particularly primary affective disorders, schizophrenia, obsessive-complusive disorder, and phobic neurosis. (The assumpltion is made that even though it may appear phobic or obsessional, food refusal alone is not sufficient to qualify for obsessive-compulsive or phobic disease.
- Pretty useless symptoms.
They are not necessarily symptoms but more overly observations of the people they would like to classify as anorexic.
"The symptoms he listed are derived from empirical observation and statistcal frequency rather than from a rational ordering of causal mechanisms. The criteria for age and for weight loss merely reflect what has been observed most of the time; they are not arbitrary, but neither are they part of a logical chain of reasoning. The third symptom obviously is difficult to define in practice since it so heavily involves the observer's subjectivity, while the fourth and fifth conditions merely state what the disease is not."
They do not allow for the older anorexic either of which there are, even though less in …show more content…
number.
Is it therefore possible to exactly clarify what anorexia is?
Having stemmed from Greek, anorexia' litreally means lack of appetite. Such a symptom of illness is however, common to many afflictions that differ in type of sickness. People with terminal illness are often subject to it as well as schizopfrenics and in cases of depression. It is therefore of great difficulty to distinguish between other such illnesses and a singular disease as anorexia. In Freigners and his associate's symptoms it is simply stated, "no known medical illness that could account for the anorexia and weight loss," which is hardly a helpful description. It is more overly an open ended definition of something they cannot quite place their fingers on. Although there has been much research into the causes of anorexia and other eating disorders such as bulimia, all that can really be clarified from such work are certain predominant characteristics. There are many theories of its causation but none are defininative which is why there is also still much debate about the way that such eating disorders should be treated. Basically it is a psychological illness.
The mind is a mysterious thing that can not always be predicted due to the uncountable different factors that affect the way one
thinks.
Food is a necessary requirement of all living things and the lust for food, our hunger is inherent in our nature. Cases of anorexia or lack of appetite therefore demonstrate the beings' state of physical or mental health. It is certainly an illness to deprive oneself of what sustains them to live, although I would like to pose that many cases can be seen with regards to euthunasia. Just as a dog, when he fall sick goes off his food, it could be suggested that a terminally ill patient might develop a lack of appetite in order that he end his suffering more quickly, unbeknown to his conscious mind. What I am really suggesting it that this development of a lack of appetite is a life system inherent in our nature. What is however different to a terminally ill patient, or a sick dog for that matter, is an anorexic who chooses conscious ly to denie herself food. It is no longer a bodily reaction but perhaps more of a mental problem. The end result for both cases is however the same; they both either die or become undernourished. The idea of ending ones life and bodily imperfection is however also the same. An anorexic diets in order to become thinner, and to become a different person, regardless of the fact that it may not only be her looks that she despises. Her bodily hatred although mind induced, can be easily likened to the body's own bodily hatred when it is unwell. Anorexia, I would like to think of it as, is a mental phenomena brought upon by certain factors that affect a persons upbringing, personality, and character. It is not an inherent problem but perhaps more of the minds reaction to distress. Such characteristics are well documented by many scholars and practicians in today's studies in eating disorders.
Acepted symptoms, published by J.P.Feighner and associates in 1972
1. Onset prior to the age of twenty-five
2. Lack of appetite accompanied by loss of at least 25 percent of original body weight.
3. A distorted, implacable attitude to eating, food, or weight that overides hunger, admonitions, reassurance, and threats; for example, (a) denial of illness with a failure to recognise nutritional needs, (b) apparent enjoyment in losing weight with overt manifestation that refusing food is a pleasurable indulgence, (c) a desired body image of extreme thiness with overt evidence that is rewarding to the patient to achieve and maintain this state, and (d) unusual handling or hoarding of food.
4. No known medical illness that could …show more content…
account for the anorexia and weight loss.
5. No other known psychiatric disorder, particularly primary affective disorders, schizophrenia, obsessive-complusive disorder, and phobic neurosis. (The assumpltion is made that even though it may appear phobic or obsessional, food refusal alone is not sufficient to qualify for obsessive-compulsive or phobic disease.
- Pretty useless symptoms.
They are not necessarily symptoms but more overly observations of the people they would like to classify as anorexic.
"The symptoms he listed are derived from empirical observation and statistcal frequency rather than from a rational ordering of causal mechanisms. The criteria for age and for weight loss merely reflect what has been observed most of the time; they are not arbitrary, but neither are they part of a logical chain of reasoning. The third symptom obviously is difficult to define in practice since it so heavily involves the observer's subjectivity, while the fourth and fifth conditions merely state what the disease is not."
They do not allow for the older anorexic either of which there are, even though less in …show more content…
number.
Is it therefore possible to exactly clarify what anorexia is?
Having stemmed from Greek, anorexia' litreally means lack of appetite. Such a symptom of illness is however, common to many afflictions that differ in type of sickness. People with terminal illness are often subject to it as well as schizopfrenics and in cases of depression. It is therefore of great difficulty to distinguish between other such illnesses and a singular disease as anorexia. In Freigners and his associate's symptoms it is simply stated, "no known medical illness that could account for the anorexia and weight loss," which is hardly a helpful description. It is more overly an open ended definition of something they cannot quite place their fingers on. Although there has been much research into the causes of anorexia and other eating disorders such as bulimia, all that can really be clarified from such work are certain predominant characteristics. There are many theories of its causation but none are defininative which is why there is also still much debate about the way that such eating disorders should be treated. Basically it is a psychological illness.
The mind is a mysterious thing that can not always be predicted due to the uncountable different factors that affect the way one
thinks.
Food is a necessary requirement of all living things and the lust for food, our hunger is inherent in our nature. Cases of anorexia or lack of appetite therefore demonstrate the beings' state of physical or mental health. It is certainly an illness to deprive oneself of what sustains them to live, although I would like to pose that many cases can be seen with regards to euthunasia. Just as a dog, when he fall sick goes off his food, it could be suggested that a terminally ill patient might develop a lack of appetite in order that he end his suffering more quickly, unbeknown to his conscious mind. What I am really suggesting it that this development of a lack of appetite is a life system inherent in our nature. What is however different to a terminally ill patient, or a sick dog for that matter, is an anorexic who chooses conscious ly to denie herself food. It is no longer a bodily reaction but perhaps more of a mental problem. The end result for both cases is however the same; they both either die or become undernourished. The idea of ending ones life and bodily imperfection is however also the same. An anorexic diets in order to become thinner, and to become a different person, regardless of the fact that it may not only be her looks that she despises. Her bodily hatred although mind induced, can be easily likened to the body's own bodily hatred when it is unwell. Anorexia, I would like to think of it as, is a mental phenomena brought upon by certain factors that affect a persons upbringing, personality, and character. It is not an inherent problem but perhaps more of the minds reaction to distress. Such characteristics are well documented by many scholars and practicians in today's studies in eating disorders.