Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that is prevalent especially among young women and, increasingly, among young men. Marked by a distorted sense of body image and extreme voluntary starvation, and closely associated with perfectionism and depression, it is the most deadly psychiatric disorder. Anorexia is highly resistant to treatment, and when the starvation becomes life-threatening, the usual recourse is hospitalization with forced feeding.

Recent Posts on Anorexia Nervosa

Finding one's way back towards the sun from the bleak place of hopelessness	One in six people with an eating disorder is male.	Parents may not change, but we can still express our feelings	This holiday can be a painful recollection for some of us.
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Advice for parents from a Renfrew psychologist	To Eat or Not to Eat; Is that Really the Question?	Psychologist Lara Pence on eating disorders and psychosocial development	An imbalance in brain chemistry

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