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Anorexia Nervosa is a mental disorder and is characterized by an obsession of becoming fat. This disorder is characterized by a refusing to maintain a healthy body weigh at least 15% below that of the norm based on age, gender, and height. A person with this disorder literally starves themselves, and has a distorted body image of them. Most individuals with anorexia even when they have a skeletal like appearance deny having a problem. Because they believe they are overweight, anorexic patients deny having a weight loss problem. These patients have ideas in their heads that they are getting fatter and fatter and they feel the need to lose more and more weight. The seriousness of the problem doesn’t seem to be real to these individuals. This makes it extremely hard for loved ones to seek help. Self-starvation produces a number of different physical complications. One of the major problems is that they have low blood pressure that can cause different rhythms in heart palpitation and cause an imbalance in the heart beats. The heart muscle becomes damaged and weak. Anorexia has been around for many years and has been more in the spot light in recent times due to the media and unrealistic representations of the female body. This disorder is a reflection of the person’s self-esteem and self-portrayal. Anorexia is more common in young girls but in recent times has also been seen in young males as well.
Anorexia nervosa can be life threatening. The first goal in treating a person with anorexia is to get them to gain weight. The best medical approach to get anorexics to gain weight is by force-feeding them. Force feeding is done through a nasogastric tube or tube through the nose. This is a very noninvasive treatment that seems to be very effective. This way patient receives directly to their stomach all the nutrients needed to survive. In extreme cases if anorexic patients are not treated they can die. Anorexia is a deadly illness, and most people