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Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
1,578 wordsEach year millions of people in the United States are affected by serious and sometimes life-threatening eating disorders. The vast majorities are adolescents and young adult women. Approximately one percent of adolescent girls develop anorexia nervosa, a dangerous condition in which they can literally starve themselves to death. Another two to three percent develop bulimia nervosa, a destructive pattern of excessive overeating followed by vomiting or other " purging " behaviors to control their...
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Low Self Esteem American Psychiatric Association
1,134 wordsEating disorders are devastating behavioral maladies brought on by a complex interplay of factors, which may include emotional and personality disorders, family pressure, a possible genetic or biologic susceptibility, and a culture in which there is an overabundance of food and an obsession with thinness. Eating disorder also may be defined, as self-abuse. Two of these disorders, anorexia and bulimia, result from the fear or overeating and of gaining weight. This paper talks about what bulimia m...
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Low Blood Pressure People With Bulimia
1,344 words... Withdraws into self, becoming socially isolated (Kirby 69). More than half of bulimics are severely depressed and often suffer from alcohol and drug abuse in addition to their eating problems. Unlike the anorexic, who is excessively thin, the bulimic is usually within a normal weight range, but his or her weight fluctuates (Kirby 70). While anorexia often begins in junior high, bulimia tends to develop in later adolescence. While anorexic girls are perfectionist and controlled, bulimic young...
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People With Bulimia Binge Eating
1,172 wordsBulimia nervosa is an eating disorder characterized by episodes of uncontrolled binge eating, often involving extremely large amounts of high-calorie foods, followed by induced vomiting or the use of laxatives, or diuretics to purge or cleanse the body of the food eaten during the binge. An estimated thirty percent of high school and college age girls use this method to stabilize their weight, and then it turns into a fixed pattern of conduct. The binge eating and purging are carried out in secr...
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Made Me Feel People With Bulimia
1,139 wordsI began binge-eating when I was about seventeen. I was lonely, shy, and lacking in self-esteem. Every binge made me feel worse, and mead me hate myself more. I punished myself with more and more food. Within months I was binge eating as a matter of course, and I gained weight rapidly. I loathed myself and only continued with normal life by pretending to be normal. Bulimia Nervosa is a psychiatric disorder that is characterized by recurrent eating binges that are followed by self-induced vomiting...
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