Anorexia Nervosa Obstacles

Throughout everyone's lifetime, one will confront an obstacle. Obstacles can obstruct or hinder one’s process. Most of the time obstacles have a negative a affect on people because of how difficult they can be. Not making a team, loss of a loved one, loss of a job are some examples of common obstacles that occur to many people. Obstacles are barriers that block people from pursuing what they want to do. They are present in every journey of our life, no matter how big or small. The importance of overcoming obstacles is learning new skills, determination and creating new opportunities.

Anorexia Nervosa is usually psychological as well as possibly an eating disorder which is life-threatening well-defined by a tremendously low body weight comparative to stature, great and needless weight loss, fear of gaining weight and distorted discernment of an individual’s self-image and body. There are several clinical factors of this eating disorder, and they are the following: the victim has a tendency of fearing his normal body weight where in this case, a person fears to be fat. In other words, the fear of normal body weight is very common in this eating disorder which is observed as a pathognomonic of the situation. In the case of Joshua, his parents should understand that he fears to get fat such that he already feels that his body

Obstacles are unavoidable parts of our lives. Obstacles constantly come in the way and slow us down. However, these obstacles should not be viewed as being harmful. They are essential factors in order for one to succeed. They can change the course of one’s life, and encourage one to work harder. Therefore, obstacles can be beneficial.

The study conducted had a sample size of 90 Polish women with AN and the control group was 120 females without any signs of an eating disorder. These females were studied to identify any substantial differences in behavior. The result of the study was that females with AN exhibited less control over cognitive function and emotional behavior. The conclusion reached was that being able to identify the symptoms typical of an eating disorder in females could help in improving treatments and could also prevent any dangerous habits developed by those with

An obstacle I have overcome in my life is school. In school I have to work a little bit harder than others so i don’t fall behind. My choice to try harder helped me to keep going.If I didnt choose to work harder and keep going i would never get anywhere in life. I think having to work harder than others pushes me to be my best and makes me a stronger person.

Binge Eating Disorder is a recent addition to the DSM-5. This disorder is characterized by regular episodes of binge eating. An individual experiencing this disorder will usually not Binge use compensatory behaviors, such as self-induced vomiting or over-exercising after they binge eat. Many people with Binge Eating Disorder are overweight or obese. (Butcher, Hooley, J. M., & Mineka, 2013).

Obstacles. What are they? Obstacles are every day little things, big or small. An obstacle could be getting up in the morning, going to school or work, homework, making dinner, or maybe training for a marathon. We may not realize it, but we face some type of obstacle every day. Different people experience different obstacles, for some people a really difficult obstacle can be easy for others and vise versa. Everyone handles their obstacles in life differently. Overcoming an obstacle can feel very refreshing because we accomplished something, and who doesn’t love that feeling of achieving something? An obstacle i’m pretty sure we’ve all faced is trying to walk when we were babies. We always see those adorable videos of baby giraffes , cows, or deers trying to stand up right after they’re born, they struggle to stand on their own and their legs shake because they can’t hold the weight. But eventually they’re walking and running all over the place. Even though they are animals they don’t get up because they are determined to stand. If people don’t have the determination to

Obstacles are challenges we face in life which help us grow as people. Nearly three years ago, my daughter was killed in a tragic accident. Losing my only child left me mentally, physically, spiritually and emotionally drained. This has been the longest journey ever.

There are varieties of eating disorders. The main ones are Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Binge Eating Disorder. I am currently acquainted with a friend who has been diagnosed with, and is currently in treatment for, Anorexia Nervosa, also known as Anorexia. Anorexia is the most dangerous eating disorder because it can be unseen, it is very unhealthy, and the effect it has on the victim’s life is devastating.

Although the exact cause of anorexia isn't known, studies show that it is possibly a combination of biological, psychological, and/or environmental factors ("Diseases and Conditions: Anorexia Nervosa, 2014). Scientists have yet to figure out exactly which gene(s) are involved in causing anorexia, but it can be acquired genetically, and surprisingly enough, it is seen more in twins than individual people ("Diseases and Conditions: Anorexia Nervosa, 2014). Young women can who have an obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) personality can have an extreme obsession of perfectionism toward their body, which can make them become anorexic due to the fact that they don't think they are thin enough ("Diseases and Conditions: Anorexia Nervosa, 2014). By having OCD, young women are more vulnerable to being anorexic because it makes it easy for them to "...stick to strict diets and forgo food despite being hungry.." ("Diseases and Conditions: Anorexia Nervosa, 2014). Young women with OCD and anorexia nervosa usually have high anxiety levels and "...engage in restrictive eating to reduce it" ("Diseases and Conditions: Anorexia Nervosa, 2014). "Modern Western culture emphasizes thinness. Success and worth are often equated with being thin" ("Diseases and Conditions: Anorexia Nervosa, 2014).

I don’t remember ever liking my body. In my mind, there was always something wrong with it. The insecurities and distorted perspectives that I had were only exacerbated during adolescence. In the beginning of 2013, my life changed forever as I was hospitalized for anorexia nervosa. My only goal in life up to that point was to have a thigh gap, protruding collarbones, a flat stomach—I wanted to feel beautiful. And so I started calorie restricting. The girl I used to be would weigh herself every day and pray for that number to drop, watch cooking videos on terrifying foods that she would never eat, and lie to her parents so they would think she was eating. Gradually I lost weight and my family members complimented my new look. It never occurred

Community today is based on the idea of portraying the perfect image. This lowers self-esteem making the person perceive that they are unacceptable to the public. Which causes Subconscious thoughts to occur, in regards to the nature throughout them.

There are several approaches in psychology which attempt to explain mental disorders. The biological approach sees a mental disorder as a medical problem, it assumes mental illness to have a physical cause and the treatment offered is physical. Behavioural approach emphasise learned behaviour, its treatment is based on conditioning principles. New adaptive behaviours are learned. Other approaches which propose causes of mental disorders as psychological are psychodynamic and cognitive approaches. Each approach has its strengths and weaknesses.

Anorexia Nervosa affects 90-95 percent of females, it can peak at any time, but it is more common between the ages of fourteen and eighteen, and in the Western culture. An individual suffering from Anorexia has a fear of becoming overweight and has a distorted view of weight and shape (Comer 266). The social and psychological causes as to why this disorder developed usually occurs after a person has been dieting or has experienced a stressful event, such as a separation of parents, has failed at something important or experienced a move from a place they were attached to. Most individuals recover but the ones that are not able to overcome disorder die from the medical conditions that are brought on by starvation or by suicide (Comer 266).

There are over 23 million teen victims of anorexia nervosa in the U.S. About 2 million sufferers are men and 21 million sufferers are women. “Women and men who suffer with anorexia nervosa exemplify a fixation with a thin figure and abnormal eating patterns” (Eating Disorder Hope). Children as young as six are being hospitalized because of anorexia. Fifty percent of teen girls say that they would rather be run over by a truck than fat. Teen girls are more susceptible to have anorexia then teen boys. Anorexia is a psychological and can be life threatening eating disorder. Anorexics are very malnourished and well below their healthy standard BMI level. Family stress, parent-child distance, bullying, magazines, or fear of growing