Anorexia Nervos Character Analysis

Anorexia Nervosa
One of my mother’s friends struggles with anorexia. This lady went to school with my mother. In high school, the woman was an average weight for her height. The problem was, she was tall: six foot, two inches. Her height caused her to weigh more than many of the other girls. The lady began shedding pounds near the end of her sophomore year. She kept losing weight until she could no longer play sports. She quit them all and shortly after was hospitalized for two months. Many years later, I met the woman. My mother says she looks just as skinny as her high school years.
Binge-Eating Disorder
One of my family member’s struggles has been struggling with this for about twenty to thirty years now. She, my aunt, has had an incredibly difficult life. She had two children, a son and a daughter. At age fourteen, her daughter was diagnosed with osteosarcoma. My aunt had always eaten too much, but when this happened, her eating habits became worse. With the large amount of stress, limited energy and time for cooking, and trips often to the hospital, food seemed to be yelling her name. My aunt binge-eats to this day and I wish she wanted help because I would help her.

In the show, she, the mother, is constantly talking about Merideth, her daughter, being a young child. The daughter is now a surgeon at twenty-six years of age. Her mother, however, sees her as the seven year old girl she was many years ago. She is constantly telling Merideth about how to grow up. She is telling her to go on to school and that she should not be hanging out in the hospital during school