| Anorexia can be termed or also mean as person who | | | | depression starts kicking in. Due to the shrinking body |
| has lost his/her appetite. It can be seen as a form of | | | | there is drop in the body temperature which makes |
| disease which is very harmful posing a threat to your | | | | the person more vulnerable to cold. Even with the |
| life. This is a voluntary starving process wherein people | | | | body remaining 1/4 of its size the person suffering with |
| kill their desire to eat and end up starving oneself. | | | | this disorder find themselves to be fat, which can be |
| There are many components which makes this | | | | maintained as a psychological barrier. |
| disease complex such as psychological, sociological | | | | The people who are mostly affected with anorexia |
| and physiological. The weight loss doesn't happen very | | | | are mostly girls or women of very young age. The |
| rapidly but it is a very slow process and looks like any | | | | portrayal of abnormally thin women in advertisements |
| other weight reducing programme in the beginning. But | | | | and movies as embodiments of beauty has made |
| it is after some months you realize the effect it has | | | | young women and teenaged girls want to be like them. |
| taken upon your health. | | | | This alone cannot be considered as the factor |
| This affects the personality of the person drastically | | | | determining the anorexic patients. Other factors like |
| and the outgoing and extrovert person becomes very | | | | eating disorders, genetics, environment, personalities |
| introvert and subdued. The level of concentration | | | | and bio-chemistry. For many anorexia starts off for |
| starts depleting too which proves to be big problem for | | | | activities like dance, sports which require a certain |
| many young people who are the major victims in this | | | | body structure. Such kind of disorders also run in |
| disease. The inability to maintain 15 percent of an | | | | families and girls find themselves at a higher risk of |
| individual's normal weight is one of the very serious | | | | getting affected by this disease. |
| matters which have to be handled very delicately. Due | | | | Treatment for such a disease is reversible. Once it is |
| to starving process there are repeated practices of | | | | diagnosed the treatment should begin immediately. |
| binge eating and vomiting. Fear plays a very important | | | | Most of these cases if detected early, the success |
| part, as it the fear of putting on weight, that they | | | | rate is good too. Once detected most of these |
| discard the idea of being hungry which can also be | | | | patients are admitted in the hospital and treated |
| said as killing yourself gradually and slowly. | | | | accordingly. There is a weight gain program and it |
| The shrinking body is the number one sign you would | | | | takes time depending upon the individual. A set target |
| see in all the people suffering from anorexia. The | | | | for food intake per week is assigned which |
| minimal body weight of the person is also not | | | | accordingly is increased so as to get the person back |
| maintained which makes it very risky for the person. | | | | on his/her feet, literally. There are different kind of |
| Body doesn't get enough supplements in the form of | | | | therapies such as normal, group, individual and family. |
| vitamins or proteins due to which the nail and hair | | | | There is lot of emotional baggage for many people |
| becomes brittle and the skin without any source of | | | | who suffer from anorexia and those feeling have to |
| energy turns yellow and pale. In such kind of health, | | | | be dealt with, by some psychological sessions or other |
| psychologically the person is traumatized, and | | | | therapies. |