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Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder and a serious mental health condition.
People with anorexia have problems with eating. They are very anxious about their weight and keep it as low as possible by strictly controlling and limiting what they eat. Many people with anorexia will also exercise excessively to lose weight.
It is thought that people with anorexia are so concerned about their weight because they:
- think they are fat or overweight
- have a strong fear of being fat
- want to be thin
Even when a person with anorexia becomes extremely underweight, they still feel compelled to lose more weight. Read the rest of this entry »
Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia Nervosa
My first view of her is always in profile, slumped in the chair, eyes cast into her lap in a tired gaze. Darting between exam rooms, my own unfocused glance registers a form without mass—an unfurled S melts from the chair to the floor. Medium length hair, uneven at the ends, falls limply down her back. Hair, skin, eyes, clothing drained of color. The room takes on a listless yellow hue.
Even before her name registers in my consciousness I’m gripped by a tightness in my stomach. A familiar dread washes over me. After 30 years of practicing primary care I am used to the hard things—pain, suffering, deprivation, violence, loss, hardship, injustice. I can usually find my footing in delivering bad news, receiving patients’ sadness, anger and fear. As a physician, I often feel sadness about the things I can’t control, change, or do for patients, but I can usually find a way to take some next steps. Read the rest of this entry »
Anorexia Nervosa Symptoms
Anorexia Nervosa Symptoms Reduced by Massage
Massage alleviates anxiety, depression, eating disorder symptoms, poor body image and biochemical abnormalities for women diagnosed with anorexia nervosa, according to a recent research study.
“Anorexia Nervosa Symptoms are Reduced by Massage Therapy” was conducted by researchers at the Touch Research Institute at the University of Miami School of Medicine. It was originally published in Eating Disorders: The Journal of Treatment and Prevention.
Nineteen women undergoing inpatient or outpatient treatment for anorexia nervosa were randomly assigned by researchers to either a massage-therapy group or a standard-treatment group. Read the rest of this entry »
