The mental health problem that I researched was anorexia nervosa. I had always heard about the eating disorder but I learned a lot of new and surprising things. I always thought that close friends and family members would know right away if a person had anorexia. However‚ I learned that these friends and family members notice that something is wrong as the person develops anorexia. Another thing that I learned is that anorexia nervosa makes people lose more weight than what is considered healthy
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8 Most Common College Diseases College students are young‚ lively and generally healthy individuals‚ but just like any population‚ they are prone tocertain health problems. Not only do college students have some of the worst eating‚ exercising and sleeping habits‚they also have to deal with stress from school‚ relationships and job hunting that takes a major toll on their health.Here are the 8 most common college diseases: 1. Depression : Depression is a growing issue that even college campuses
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far can it be regarded that eating disorders are linked to our perception of beauty? My topic will focus on the distorted body images that the media portrays‚ especially for women and young girls. I want to inform you about what the media is doing‚ how they are directly affecting the self-esteem and confidence of women and young girls‚ and what the negative consequences of this can be. I will focus on how the media can cause women to develop eating disorders‚ lead to low self-esteem‚ negative
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trying to lose weight but just end up eating without control? Or do you weigh every single day and your mood depends on the numbers? When we focus too much attention on our bodies‚ these preoccupations can possibly severely affect our well-being‚ relationships and personal lives. 2. It is without any doubt that cases of eating disorders have increased since the last half century. Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa are exactly the main clinical disorders that I want to compare in here. 3
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recommended body weight (according to their age and height). 2. List some medical complications associated with prolonged starvation. Anorexia can come with numerous complications. Death is the worse complication that can occur from the disorder‚ and it doesn’t necessarily have to be caused by being severely under weight‚ it may result form abnormal heart rhythms or an imbalance of electrolytes that maintain the balance of fluids in your body. Complication of Anorexia: ~Death ~Anemia
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Nervosa is an eating disorder that is more than just a problem with food‚ it’s a way of using food‚ or starving oneself to feel more in control of life‚ and to ease tension‚ anger‚ and anxiety. People with anorexia are rarely aware that they have a problem; because this disease is defined by a distorted view of their own body image or weight. A person with anorexia often resists questioning and is extremely secretive‚ usually denying any problem‚ and making excuses for weight loss‚ and eating habits.
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that play with a Barbie doll are shown to having a eating disorder as they grow up. Barbie dolls are bad influences because they lead to eating disorders‚ false hopes‚ and lowers self-esteem. Barbie dolls cause many eating disorders that cause young children to want to lose weight. Around 8 million people in the US have an eating disorder and 80% of those people are females and under the age of 20. Many of these people that have an eating disorder admitted that they worry about their weight at the
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to make an educated decision the way a 25 year old woman would. This is significant because this vulnerable girl may not know how to respond appropriately to things she sees in the media. A prominent example of this is the rising number of eating disorders found in adolescents today. Adolescent females‚ especially‚ view underweight‚ “beautiful” models everywhere they go‚ often unaware that these images have gone through hours of retouching and photoshop before being displayed to the public. These
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Give a short description of the background of the reading and its author. In this article Dr. Abed‚ a consultant psychiatrist‚ provides proposals on how life history theory (LHT) can be applied “to the classification of psychopathology and mental disorder” (Abed‚ 2014‚ p. 301). LHT is a branch of ecology and evolutionary biology; it aims to predict the observed patterns in the life histories of living organisms. This theory was developed to explain the diversity in the life history of living organisms
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CAC – Child & Adolescent Counselling Case Study At a height of 5 feet 7 inches and a weight of 79 pounds‚ Sandy‚ a 17-year-old white female‚ had the look of an emaciated fashion model when she arrived for for the initial assessment. Unlike a model‚ she was dressed in secondhand clothes and worn-out flip-flops‚ which stood in stark contrast to her parent’s more polished professional presentation. Sandy didn’t really think there was anything wrong with her‚ but her parents knew that her current
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