![]() The disease threatens the health of millions of young girls aged roughly between 14 to 28 years and also some boys. The purpose of this review is to create awareness about Eating Disorders (ED) disease to the sufferers, their families, and the society in general. ![]() There is body-image distortion in the form of a specific psychopathology whereby a dread of fatness persists as an intrusive, overvalued idea and the patient imposes a low weight threshold on himself or herself. ![]() Other than focusing on book-based explanations on symptoms & treatments, to be able to get the picture of the mental disorder from the sufferers’ eyes….A disorder most often seen in adolescent females characterized by a refusal to maintain minimally normal body weight, intense fear of gaining weight, disturbance in body image, development of amenorrhea in postmenarcheal females Body weight is maintained at least 15% below that expected (either lost or never achieved), or Body Mass Index (BMI) is 17.5 or lessThe weight loss is self-induced by avoidance of ‘fattening foods’ and one or more of the following: self-induced vomiting selfinduced purging excessive exercise use of appetite suppressants and/or diuretics. To provide deeper & novel perspective about Anorexia Nervosa, as an Eating Disorder.
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