Society’s Influence on Young Girls: Anorexia Nervosa and Bulimia Nervosa

All generations have a series of values ​​they think that they can make people beautiful. It was considered beautiful to be a sexy woman in the 1940s and 50s. A woman full of her chest and full of waist is an ideal woman like Marylyn Monroe. The difference between present and present is that young women can escape from this image if necessary. Today, it is impossible to ignore ultra-thin model of billboard, television, magazine. The impact of society on young people is so great that men hope that women are actually considered to be slim models, or "fat", "fat" etc.

Anorexia and bulimia are the two most common types of eating disorders. Anorexia is characterized by self-starvation and marked weight loss. Binge eating may include overeating, followed by voluntary vomiting or clearance. Both illnesses can threaten life. (18) Treatment of eating disorders usually includes psychological counseling and nutritional counseling, as well as medical and psychological monitoring. Treatment must address symptoms and medical consequences of eating disorders and psychological, biological, interpersonal, and cultural factors that cause or maintain eating disorders ... Many people Uses a treatment team to treat multiple aspects of eating disorders. (20)

Eating disorders (eg anorexia and bulimia) are psychological disorders characterized by severe disability of feeding behavior. Anorexia nervosa is characterized by refusal to maintain minimum normal body weight, and bulimia is characterized by compensatory behaviors such as recurrent overeating followed by voluntary vomiting (72). Eating disorders usually begin in adolescence and more than 90% of cases occur in women (72). Anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa occur in up to 3% of adolescents and young adult women, and the incidence of anorexia nervosa appears to be increasing in recent decades (72) . Young people with eating disorders have lower self-esteem than the negative youth who is eating, the image of the body is negative, and emotions of discomfort, anxiety, social malfunction, depression and depression ( 73)