Anorexia is very hard to understand. It is not a diet, it’s a disease. Anorexia is a psychiatric disorder; its defining behavior is self starvation. Those with this disorder starve themselves to a state of severe emaciation, or even death. More people die from anorexia each year than any other mental disorder. Anorexia is addictive, once a person starts, it is very difficult to end the behaviors and go back to normal eating. This disorder impacts everything in an individual’s life: work, home, health, and members of the family.
Dieting is a key part of anorexia; and therefore, many of the most common symptoms surround food and dieting. Although a female with anorexia may have experienced a recent weight loss — 15% or more below her normal body weight – she diets constantly and complains that she feels “fat.” It is not unusual for those with anorexia to have an extreme preoccupation with food, calories, nutrition, and/or cooking. She will probably talk about food a lot and weigh herself several times a day.Although a girl or woman with anorexia rarely consumes food, she denies being hungry. Naturally, this is not true at all. When she actually does eat, it is not unusual for her to engage in odd food-related behaviors. These include cutting food into little tiny pieces, only eating one food at a time, or placing unusual condiments on food items. Episodes of binge eating can also occur, simply due to a loss of control. Remember, these individuals are hungry, so when they finally give in and eat, it is sometimes very difficult to stop.
Starvation is extremely taxing on the human body. To make things worse, those afflicted sometimes exercise to an extreme degree. As a result of inadequate nutrition and high levels of exercise, she will probably experience amenorrhea, which means loss of her menstrual period. Strangely, though the hair on her head may become very brittle and fall out, she may undergo unusual hair growth on her arms and legs; basically, this is an effort by the body to make itself warm. Another obvious ramification of malnutrition is dry, flaky skin. Although she may indicate to those around her that she is at the top of the world, depression is often a symptom of anorexia, as is slowness of thought and memory difficulties. This results from the brain’s inability to function without adequate nutrition.
Anorexia is an extremely dangerous disease, and as such, needs to be treated. If you know someone who displays these symptoms, please encourage them to get help. There is a great deal of good information on the internet or in copyrighted articles. Or you can contact Remuda Programs for Eating Disorders at 1-800-445-1900.
Paranoid personality disorder was also eliminated, so I guess paranoia is no longer a psychiatric disorder either.
American Psychiatric Association to change its mind due to the "culture of me" (What happened to humility?)Via
I have to enjoy the headline on your article. Good job.
Our corrupt politicians & the corporate govt. have now been released to do as they please knowing they are not mentally ill (Narcissism no longer a psychiatric disorder).
Had enough? Where's the outrage any more. Just read a new book that's a thriller & so real cause it's about Amerians finally taking a stand against these corrupt politicians. About us & it's so real. It's a great read.
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OK, it's a 'deeper' psychological problem, but still, the arrogance is just too much from our politicians. Great article!! Liked it.
This entire story is ridiculous from beginning to end. First of all Friends hospital is not a medical surgical unit, so it is not equipped to have performed any of the procedures that he claimed were done. Secondly it was Frankford hospital that performed all the procedures that were documented in the medical chart. When he arrived at Frankford hospital from Friends hospital obviously the medical staff were given a report on the patients condition. In addition the EMT’s also provided a medical report to the treatment team at Frankford hospital. The insertion of a tube ( mouth or nose ), the urinary catheter, & the decision to induce vomiting as a prophylactic measure in case of an over dose pending the lab results; were all decisions made by the medical staff at Frankford hospital. I believe they did a complete neurological assessment and determined that he needed these procedures done. If he was feigning unconsciousness as he says this could have easily been determined by the medical team and the EMT’s. So, why does he have a beef with a psychiatric facility who makes sure a patient is medically cleared before accepting them on any unit? It is protocol if a patient appears medically unstable to be transferred to the nearest hospital via ambulance for immediate evaluation. What medical procedures that hospital chooses to use, is no reflection of the psychiatric facility referring the patient for evaluation. In my opinion he has not given any examples of abuse, and emotional trauma is hard to measure in a patient presenting with a psychiatric disorder. It begs the age old question; what came first the chicken or the egg? Is it him or Friends? The fact that he put so much energy into this situation makes me question his mental stability. I feel from his rantings and demonstrative behavior outside of a treatment facility, that he violated the rights of other patients seeking treatment. He used scare tactics to prevent other people from seeking psychiatric treatment at Friends because of what he perceived as his own maltreatment, and that is wrong. In my opinion he would have had the same experience at another psychiatric hospital if he presented with those same behaviors such as: feigning unconsciousness and refusing help. How many people would allow their private medical information to become public? This is why HIPPA laws are in place. He has given the public complete access to documents in his medical chart, and that is a sign of mental illness. He doesn’t seem to know boundaries. Nothing in his medical chart was necessary for review by the public in presenting his case. A synopsis by him would have sufficed. His chart is full of medical jargon, lab values and tests results for the interpretation and viewing by the medical staff. No one else cares. All that the documents in his chart served to do was to confuse the lay person. I have been on both sides of the fence. I have worked as a health-care practitioner at Friends hospital and i am a mental health consumer. Before i became stable on my medications i had numerous in patient psychiatric hospitalizations and i have also been under a 302 court commit for suicidal- ideation. In addition i have been in psychotherapy for over 17 years with the same therapist, and as an adjunct i was also in partial hospitalization group therapy programs. I have two college degrees & one is in nursing. At one time i was an inpatient at Friends hospital myself. I am quite familiar with the crisis response centers in the city because at one time i was a ‘frequent flyer’ in the mental health system. I have bright young adults who also have a mental health diagnosis and one of them has been at Friends hospital twice. Two of my sons attended Central high school. One completed 10 years at Masterman before transferring to Central. The other went to a Creative and Performing Arts school in town and majored in creative writing. Once they were stabilized on their medications, they were able to be completely functional. Two of them are now attending college and doing quite well. Medication and therapy are the key components to success. Most importantly is accepting your mental illness, and stop blaming others such as: parents & hospitals or culture & ethnicity. My mental illness was as a consequence of a sexually sadistic father and a masochistic indifferent mother. I never really knew my biological mother, but both my parents are foreigners. I must say though that their is a genetic component, because my children were not traumatized in the vicious way i was, although they had a dysfunctional family. I feel he needs to pick and choose his battles, and standing outside a mental institution, ‘protesting’, displaying his confidential medical records, and writing numerous letters do nothing. Hopefully he has since moved on, gotten stable on his medications, and learned to accept and live with his mental illness. Life is to short to waste.
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I’ve been to one when i was only three
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No one that actually has ADD or ADHD could possibly make it through this horrible video.
This man is insane – look at the people that he has speaking for him.
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