Feeling isolated in a crowd is a common experience among university freshmen during the first few weeks on campus. The classic college experience is to become best friends with your hall mates, get involved in several clubs and activities, and make sure it is well documented on facebook for everyone back home to see. With such high expectations, one may question their self images in regards to being accepted. If incoming students have not already battled an eating disorder, they might fall into the large percentage of students who have developed one in college. Students and parents should feel more than confident that there are outstanding resources on CSU’s campus for eating disorder prevention and treatment, with high success rates. At Colorado State University, the Health Network offers an effective multidisciplinary treatment program for students with eating disorders, which is ran by highly trained professionals who specialize in each area of treatment. A multidisciplinary program means that there are several different techniques to cure the disorder, including: prevention, development and psychotherapy. To ensure optimal quality, the program also must include specific professionals such as a Registered Dietitian (RD), a primary care physician and a therapist. Each eating disorder is just as unique as the student who is fostering it. Therefore, effective treatment for one person may be very different from another. I have found a multidisciplinary approach is the optimal treatment for young adults, especially on a college campus. However, it has been brought to my attention that I share an opposing view with many who believe medicinal treatment is the best option. Allan S. Kaplan and Andrew Howlett acknowledge the use of medi... ... middle of paper ... ...rk at CSU has a strong shoulder to lean on for students battling eating disorders. Not only do they strive to cure disordered eating, but they make efforts to prevent it. Through a multidisciplinary approach, using prevention, development and psychotherapy, CSU meets the needs of students with mediocre body image, to students with severe and persistent symptoms. By educating their patients, this approach allows students to actively work on themselves and explore self help on their own. Though the exact treatment plan depends on the severity of the disorder, CSU provides nutritional therapy, group or individual counseling and medical care to students, to get their health back on track. If I were a parent of a young adult dealing with an eating disorder, I would feel completely confident that CSU has the finest resources my child would need to rehabilitate themselves.
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Though there are a few treatments for eating disorders they don’t always work. The treatments mostly include psychotherapies and cognitive behavioral therapy, also counseling and nutritional rehabilitation. These individuals must undergo many counseling sessions to try to indicate the essential reason that the individual adapted the eating disorder in the first place, it is difficult to change someone’s opinion of themselves so often times even have counseling very few amounts of these individuals actually change their eating habits and behaviors. The purposes for having treatment include helping the patient reach a specific weight that is healthy for their age and height and also to address all of the individual’s psychological problems associated with the disorder.
Today, America is plagued with eating disorders such as Anorexia Nervosa, Bulimia Nervosa, and Compulsive Eating Disorders. Each has its own characteristics that distinguish the illness yet there are some similarities that they also share. According to the National Eating Disorders Association, as with most mental illnesses, eating disorders are not caused by just one factor but by a combination of behavioral, biological, emotional, psychological, interpersonal and social factors. Shockingly, they also report that in the United States, there are as many as 10 million females and 1 million males that are battling with eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia. Additionally, another 25 million are struggling with binge eating disorders (www.NationalEatingDisorders.org). Typically, psychological factors such as depression and low self-esteem contribute to eating disorders...
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There may be murmurs about that girl who only fixes herself a salad with only vinegar at dining services or suspicious glances at someone who spends 45 minutes on the treadmill and then switches to the stair stepper at the rec. On-campus eating disorders are talked about everywhere and yet are not really talked about at all. There is observation, concern, and gossip, but hushed conversation and larger scale efforts to help and change never seem to earn public attention.
Many people think that they know all about eating disorders. They think that they already know all they need to know about them and that as long as your child or your friend or someone you care about doesn’t have it; you don’t have to worry about them. Well, how are you supposed to know when someone you love and care about has them if you don’t even know the basics about the eating disorders? Most of the times the person with the eating disorder was only trying to lose a couple pounds. However, the goal that was set turns into something more than just a couple of pounds and that person may go through extremes to try and get to that perfect body they have in mind. But the perfect body they have in mind is not perfect, not even close. It is a pure illusion in which teenagers are made to believe to be the definition of beauty.
Patients recovering from eating disorders often go through different transitions or phases. This can include different levels of care all throughout a person’s lifetime experience. If action is not taken soon enough, a person has a risk of dying. There are many places to go and get help. Depending on the severity of the disorder, a person may be emitted to a hospital or an eating disorder clinic for treatment. While there, a strategic recovery process is taken, but it solely depends from person to person the treatment the doctors choose. There are 5 stages of eating disorder recovery. The first stage is The Pre-contemplation Stage. During this stage, the patient probably won’t believe they have a problem.They may refuse to discuss the topic and deny any needs help. At this stage, it is necessary to gently educate the individual about the devastating effects the disorder will have on her health and life, and the positive aspects of change. The second stage is the Contemplation Stage. This stage occurs when the individual is willing to admit that she they have a problem and is now open to receiving help. The third stage is the Preparation Stage. This occurs when the patient is ready to change, but is uncertain about how to do it. Time is spent establishing specific coping skills besides limiting food. The fourth stage is the Action Stage. This begins when the patient is
The years spent in college are a big transitional stage in every ones life. The years in college are spent in preparation for future endeavors in the “real world”. Choosing a college is imperative in that it can potentially effect your level of preparation for a professional career or in some cases graduate study. Your choice will impact the quality of education you will be receiving as well as shape your independence. When it came time for me to begin looking at schools I wasn’t sure where I wanted to go. I felt that their were so many choices and I found it difficult narrowing my choices down. Factors such as the schools size, the schools locale, and the cost were all part of my decision process. Up until this point schools such as Xavier University of Louisiana, Hampton University, North Carolina State University, Howard University, and North Carolina Central University were all realistic choices for school.
Eating disorders are a dark, frightening place. The disease makes sure you feel worthless and despaired. It does its best to strip you of everything you once were, and replace that with skin and bones. The disorder’s distorted view of perfection.
When I first enrolled here at State University, I never thought I would ever be in the position to graduate. Finishing college was a huge goal growing up but it was also my biggest fear. But after three and a half years of dedication I plan to get my degree in the fall. Getting this far in college was not easy, it took encouragement from family, dedication, and assistance from others to reach this position.
Throughout my lifetime I have listened to people reflect back on their college experiences and explain how college is supposed to be “the best experience of your life.” The summer after my senior year I use to try and imagine what my first semester was going to be like based on what I had heard people talk about in the past. After my first semester at NC State I realized that I couldn’t fully understand what college was like until I experienced it for myself. My first couple of weeks at Ohio State was rough and really tested my strength (mental and physical). I faced challenges and obstacles that I had never heard about in those past college experience conversations. All of a sudden there was no one to get me out of the bed when I hit the snooze button on my alarm cl...
Schedules are a difficult thing to balance. A person must find the time to complete a number of tasks in a day. A normal adult may have time to get everything done and still have time to spare. The normal college student on the other hand is constantly on the go. College students have busy schedules that include working, studying, and socializing.
Everyone is bound to possess imagination toward college life before being enrolled. I am not an exception as well. To my ideal college, it should be the same with the foreign TV series have shown, with a lush large meadow where students are able to lay under the shadow of leaves, enjoying reading books or chatting with intimate friends; a huge number of clubs are established in school; students can participate in a variety of activities like singing contests, speeches given by famous people, exclusive events held by school, and so on. Also, a wonderful college will not be complete without a spectacular library, owing a vase collection of worldwide and comprehensive books and resources. However, all of these imaginations vanished without a second as I stepped into my college. There did have a lush large meadow lies on the central of campus, though it can hardly reach my expectation because there were countless insects living in there. To which I make compromise given that it would never be as clean as the soft carpet in my cozy home. After a month struggling for getting used to the new and unfamiliar things, I was bitterly announced to be defeated in that this college was utterly beyond my imagination.
As I graduated high school, I thought college would just be yet another four years of high school, and I was wrong. College opens many new doors in a young man or woman’s life. There are new responsibilities and pressures that you will have to deal with, and with more freedom these responsibilities and pressures can be difficult to handle. College has changed a great deal over the years and these changes, such as more freedoms, make college a much more challenging experience. You need to start preparing for college now by making yourself more responsible and having more self-control. Although you think college is merely partying with easy classes on the side, I have experienced pressures and work loads that make the experience challenging and time consuming.