Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia Nervosa is an eating disorder which causes extreme low body weight and distortion of the body image because of an obsessive fear of gaining weight.
Anorexia Nervosa primarily affects young and adolescent females in our Modern life.

People with Anorexia Nervosa control their body weight by taking diuretic drugs
or diet pills, or other weight control measures, or voluntary starvation, vomiting, purging, excessive exercise.

Anorexia is more than just a problem with food.

It's a way of using food or starving oneself to feel more in control of life and to ease tension, anger, and anxiety.

Anorexia nervosa is a complex condition, involving sociological, neurobiological, and psychological components..

The term anorexia literally means loss of appetite, but this is a misnomer.
In fact, individuals with anorexia nervosa control their desire to eat by ignoring their hunger.

This desire is frequently sublimated through cooking for others or hiding food that they will not eat in their personal space.

Obsessive exercise may accompany the starving behavior and cause others to assume the person must be healthy.