Anorexia in Teens

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There are many kinds of psychosocial disorders that deal with deferent things. Some psychosocial disorders are genetic and some people just pick up from everyday life. Teens can pick up disorders from high school and form our popular media. The media plays a huge roll on what teens do to their life. The media tells teens what they should eat, what size teens should be, and what is okay to wear. Media is mostly worried about what people, mostly celebrities, look like. Teens see a tiny model; teens see that as being attractive. The teen that saw the tiny model attractive would start to starve them self to become that skinny or what is known in the psychology world as anorexia.
Anorexia is a big deal in the United States, a lot of young people are starting to starve them self just to become skinny. This isn’t only because they want to look like that model, or just want to skinny. Anorexia can come from other places in a person’s life. Anorexia came to be from seeing a few of my friends not eat, just because they wanted to be skinny, also I found a new article on a model who became anorexic just to walk down a runway. “The model name was Isabelle Caro, 28 years old with anorexia.” (Vandoorne)
Isabelle is a very good example on why someone would become anorexic. “Isabelle Caro, was a 28 year old with anorexia, but she was much more than that. She had anorexia from when she was 12 years old.” (Vandoorne)For her to start having this problem at such a young age just sends a sign, that something in her childhood at the time, had influenced to lose weight. Isabelle also was a model for some time, very famous model at that. “She wrote her own autobiography in 2008, talking about her anorexia at twelve; she also started her own mo...

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...adolescence mostly females, but men do go through this problem. (Lilienfeld, Lynn and Namy) There are many ways that teens start anorexia, family issues, social stressors, and cultural stressors. There are many ways to get over the problem from talking to family and friends. (Nilsson, Abrahamsson and Torbiornsson) The best way to come over the problem is just talking to psychologist to figure out how to end the problem.

Works Cited
Lilienfeld, Scott O, et al. "Emotion and Motivation." Psychology from inquiry to understanding. Boston: Pearson Education, 2011. 435-438.
Nilsson, Karin, et al. "Causes of Adolescent Onset Anorexia Nervosa: Patient Perspectives." (2007): 125-132.
Vandoorne, Sakya. Model who fougt anorexia dies. 30 December 2010. 21 January 2013. .

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