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A Day in the Mind of an Anorexic Girl

2023-06-09 02:49:50

One day, in the heart of an anorexic girl, I floated and floated quietly in the clouds. Suddenly I woke up, my eyes opened and it got dark. My feet hit the ground so I will not float anymore, I kept the balance a bit shaky. I am huge, dark, in open space, but I can see a chaotic image that is beginning to appear blurry. I found myself trapped in the heart of a girl. But it is not any girl; she has an eating disorder called anorexia. When she opened her eyes, the vast space brightened and I experienced confusion in her mind.

Anorexia is a serious eating disorder, girls are afraid to get fat. Not all these anorexic patients have these symptoms, but the diagnostic criteria are characterized by anorexia. Anorexia refuses to maintain body weight above minimum normal weight due to age and height. Those weight losses result in weight maintenance that is less than 20% of the expected body weight of healthy individuals. Signs that can be seen and felt are signs of significant weight loss in a relatively short period of time, bone appearance, recessed eyes, dry, yellow or gray skin, sparse hair, arms, legs, other bodies Part. Calories, decreasing body muscle and fat, growing to maintain dizziness and headaches, often feeling cold, fainting spells, complaints of sleeplessness, exhaustion, that period of time does not stop, or does not start

Anorexia has many signs of external and internal risk. Some of the symptoms that can be seen are weight loss and hair loss. In addition, anorexia has thin hair in arms, legs and other parts of the body, and they have dry, brittle fur. Other invisible signs are cold hands and feet; they feel they are fat even after they are still reduced, and a strong fear of weight gain. Anorexia also has short lived breathing and weak spells. Women with anorexia disease have decreasing monthly menstrual flow. Anorexia tends to be isolated; they also cook for others as a control sensation and lies to food. Use of diuretics to control weight (Kinoy 7)