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A Deadly Psychological Disease
Elizabeth Watts, a sixteen-year old female, knows this type of life all too well. ... Elizabeth strives to be perfect, but at a deadly cost. ... ” Elizabeth is one of seven million girls in the United States suffering from a disease known as anorexia nervosa (Streisand 68). When considering the causes and effects from this disease that controls the lives of many teenage girls, anorexia can indeed be characterized a psychological disease rather than a physical one.
Anorexia is a disturbance in eating behavior that jeopardizes a person’s psychological and physical health. ... The disease has a 19:1 female to male ratio. Young women who become a slave to this disease tend to weigh eighty-five percent or less than there expected weight. ... Later on in his studies, Berrettini also concluded that immediate family members of a person with anorexia were ten times more likely to develop the disease than were members of the general population. Having derived this new information, Berrettini is now studying DNA sequences of his patients in order to find a treatment for this disease (www. ...
Along with the psychological effects that are a part of being anorectic, are the physical effects. ... The psychological state of each victim’s mind causes these and other physical problems that go along with the life of an anorectic (Farley 33-37). ...
Anorexia is the most deadly of all psychiatric disorders. It is psychological in that choosing to eat or not to eat involves self-esteem. ... The only proven way to treat someone with anorexia is to get to the root of their underlying psychological problem with months of counseling. ... ”
Anorexia is the most serious among psychological diseases. ... With the very little evidence that anorexia is a physical problem that can be treated with medicine, it is easy to understand that anorexia is indeed a psychological problem.
Approximate Word count = 1612
Approximate Pages = 6.4
(250 words per page double spaced)
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