*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 2
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
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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. Who’s 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