Anorexia is an eating disorder that can develop due to a person’s negative or poor self-image. When a person sees himself as less than perfect and their mirrored reflection is not acceptable, they take drastic steps to improve their appearance. Obsessed with their desire to achieve this perfection they begin down a road of no return. Innocently enough, they take steps to lose weight. A person suffering from this disorder will start slowly by reducing their intake and avoiding junk foods. It isn’t long though before the person suffering from disordered eating rapidly increases their measures for immediate weight reduction with full blown anorexia. Then skipping meals, the anorexic begins the plunge into unsafe waters. Eventually they are hardly eating, and the starvation of self had set in. It is now that they are noticeably frail and weak. Barley able to function the anorexic turns to the mirror once again and still cannot see himself as thin. This disorder has now consumed this person and controls their life. Recovering from this disorder is difficult because the person who suffers from it cannot see himself as others do, but rather they view themselves as always fat, no matter what the true weight. Someone in recovery from anorexia can relapse, just like an alcoholic can take a drink. Treatment for the eating disorder can prevent this. Through family support and much therapy to reverse their low self-esteem and opinion of self, a person can recover from an eating disorder such as anorexia just as an alcoholic can recovery from their addiction.
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