Eating Disorders and Impulse Control Disorders

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This paper discusses how anorexia and bulimia are eating disorders that affect millions of females, especially those who have just experienced puberty. Using celebrity idols as models for what they believe to be an acceptable physical appearance these females begin to desire to loose weight. The paper further discusses how the issue begins to become serious when the females cannot seem to stop dieting. As the dieting continues the individuals are consumed with the thought of gaining weight and of ideas relating to their physical appearance. The paper goes on to discuss how often the individual will purge food, or diet severely in order to continue to lose weight. The individual with anorexia also will contend that her shape is much larger than it is in reality, and females past the age of puberty will cease to have at least three menstrual cycles. In bulimia the individual will not be as aware of body shape as she is of body weight.

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