munching on their sandwiches and eating their desserts. Then imagine yourself‚ afraid to eat food‚ afraid to take into your body the necessity of life. You are so afraid of eating food that you starve yourself daily‚ sticking to your own false impressions that your body is not in good shape. You have a fear every day‚ the fear of becoming fat. You have Anorexia Nervosa. What exactly is Anorexia Nervosa? It is an eating disorder characterized by bad eating habits‚ intense weight loss‚ and
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The diagnosis that this client has is F50.8‚ Binge-Eating Disorder‚ which is‚ “recurrent episodes of binge eating” (DSM-5‚ 2013‚ p. 350). The reason why this specific diagnosis would apply would be that Andrea meets the diagnostic criteria for this disorder. This disorder is characterized by‚ one‚ “eating‚ in a discrete period of time (e.g.‚ within any 2-hour period)‚ an amount of food that is definitely larger than what most people would eat in a similar period of time under normal circumstances”
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Diana in the Dock : does privacy matter? ’Diana’ as used in the title is referring to the Former Princess of Wales ’Princess Diana’. In November 1993 The mirror newspaper published photos of ’princess Diana’ while she was working out at a gym. These photo’s were taken out of consent by Diana by the Gym owner Bryce Taylor who was paid over 100‚000 pounds for the photos .Thus Princess Di had his assets frozen and sued him. Due to the fact Bryce Taylor was broke he seeked legal aid where he was
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Diana was initially just the hunting goddess‚[citation needed] associated with wild animals and woodlands. She also later became a moon goddess‚ supplanting Titan goddess Luna.[citation needed] She also became the goddess of childbirth and ruled over the countryside. Catullus wrote a poem to Diana in which she has more than one alias: Latonia‚ Lucina‚ Iuno‚ Trivia‚ Luna.[11] In Rome the cult of Diana should have been almost as old as the city itself as Varro mentions her in the list of deities to
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is inability to distinguish colors. Most people who have this disorder are partially colorblind; being fully colorblind is very rare and does not happen a lot. Some of the major causes for color blindness is aging‚ eye problems‚ injury to the eye‚ and side effects to certain medicine. Some symptoms of the disorder are difficulty distinguishing colors‚ inability to see shades or tones of the same color‚ and rapid eye movement in rare cases. You find out you have colorblindness by doctors testing for
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This is a case study of Sarah‚ a 39 year old female who presented at the emergency department with her husband‚ who is worried about her recent behaviour. She is showing classic signs of Hypomania‚ which is commonly associated with Bipolar Disorder. Hypomania has distinguishing features and can be displayed with high energy levels‚ positive mood‚ irritability‚ inappropriate behaviour‚ heightened creativity and mystical experiences (Athanasos 2009). Bipolar Disorder sufferers not only experience highs
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Gastrointestinal Disorder Case Study T.B‚ a 60yo retiree‚ is admitted to your unit from the ED. Upon arrival you note that he is trembling and nearly doubled over with severe abdominal pain. T.B. indicates that he has severe RUQ (right upper quadrant) pain that radiates to his back‚ and he is more comfortable walking bent forward than lying in bed. He admits to having had several similar bouts of abdominal pain in the last month but “none as bad as this.” He feels only slightly nauseated but
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Case Summary The new client is a seventeen-year-old female‚ who was brought in by her father because of her behavior changes within the last two years. The father reports her grades have slipped tremendously‚ she has had a major change in friends‚ and uses marijuana and alcohol. Two years ago‚ her brother hit her over the head with a rake. Although she was stunned and had a headache‚ there was no follow up doctor’s visits. Upon coming in‚ it was evident a neuropsychological test needed. The neuropsychological
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A number of highly complex processes continuously take place on a molecular level in our body through transportation. Iron is the mineral which helps in the circulation and composition of blood. Females require a consistent level of iron‚ even overconsumption can be useful for them. In each country of the world‚ women lack adequate iron consumption leading to anemia‚ pernicious anemia‚ and even blood loss. WHO reported that 75% of women lack the minimum level of iron consumption in the body. It is
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Copyright ª Blackwell Munksgaard 2005 Bipolar Disorders 2005: 7(Suppl. 3): 5–69 BIPOLAR DISORDERS Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments (CANMAT) guidelines for the management of patients with bipolar disorder: consensus and controversies Yatham LN‚ Kennedy SH‚ O’Donovan C‚ Parikh S‚ MacQueen G‚ McIntyre R‚ Sharma V‚ Silverstone P‚ Alda M‚ Baruch P‚ Beaulieu S‚ Daigneault A‚ Milev R‚ Young T‚ Ravindran A‚ Schaffer A‚ Connolly M‚ Gorman CP. Canadian Network for Mood and Anxiety Treatments
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