Two Case Studies of Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia is an anorexia (AN) eating disorder that causes those attempts to successfully lose weight until their size, age and height reach malnutrition. Patients with anorexia nervosa are of low weight but still fear that they will be slight weight. People suffering from this disease use various methods such as excessive exercise and excessive diet to avoid weight gain (A. D.A.M., 2013). The disease affects human safety, psychology, emotion, and most importantly physical health.

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 the symptoms of eating disorders and medical outcomes, as well as psychological, biological, interpersonal, and cultural factors that cause or maintain 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)