*This a project for a high school AP Psychology course. This is a fictionalized account of having a psychological ailment. For questions about this blog project or its content please email the teacher Chris Jocham: jocham@fultonschools.org
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Anorexia by Mariella Marie
1. Anorexia
By: Mariella Marie
*This a project for a high school AP Psychology course. This is a fictionalized account of having a
psychological ailment. For questions about this blog project or its content please email the teacher
Chris Jocham: jocham@fultonschools.org
2. About Anorexia
Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder in
which someone takes dangerous measures to
lose weight. These measures may include:
skipping meals, using laxatives, avoiding food,
intense and compulsive exercising, and eating
food in unreasonably small quantities.
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4. Symptoms
⢠Fear of gaining weight, even though
underweight
⢠Intense resistance to being at healthy body
weight for age and height
⢠Infrequent or absent period, or delayed onset
of first period
⢠Denial of the severity of disorder
5.
6. Treatment
⢠Treatment of anorexia requires a specific
program that involves three main phases:
⢠restoring weight that has been lost to severe
dieting and purging
⢠treating any psychological disturbances, such
as distortion of body image, low self-esteem,
and interpersonal or emotional conflicts; and
⢠achieving long-term remission and
rehabilitation, or full recovery.
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8. Whoâs At Risk?
⢠Females make up 95% of the anorexic
population
⢠Most are also teenage girls
⢠Caucasians more affected than any other race
⢠More common in middle and upper classes
9. According to the statistics these girls are at higher risk for
developing Anorexia Nervosa.
10. Causes
⢠Dysfunction in hypothalamus which controls
metabolism
⢠Feeding problems or general under eating as
an infant
⢠Maternal depressive symptoms
⢠Peer pressure to look a certain way
⢠Poor self image
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12. Health Risks
⢠Low blood pressure
⢠Abnormally slow heart rate
⢠Constipation
⢠Abdominal pain
⢠Absence of menstrual periods