Evaluation:
Published: 10.09.2003.
Language: English
Level: Secondary school
Literature: n/a
References: Not used
  • Essays 'Anorexia Treatment', 1.
  • Essays 'Anorexia Treatment', 2.
Extract

Here's a question, how would you feel if you found out that your friend had just committed suicide? How would you feel if you knew you could have stopped her/him from doing it years ago? That's what I call Anorexia Nervosa, suicide. In definition it's the deliberate self-starvation with intense weight loss. Patients have a persistent fear of gaining weight, they refuse to eat, their always on a diet, always exercising the list goes on and on all the way to excessive body/facial hair because of inadequate protein in their diet. …

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