Eating Disorders Research Paper

Mental Health in Eating disorders

Mental health has always been around for years but it hasn’t always been the center of attention. Most people think of mental health as a bad thing or being crazy. In this paper I would be talking about eating disorder when is considered a mental health disorder. When your talking about eating disorder you can be talking about two different types which is anoxia and bulimia. Anoxia is when your personally starve yourself to be thin. It’s a psychological disorder with high risk of potential of death. People who suffer from this disorder or mental illness is typically has a low body weight that’s look at by a BMI chart. Which measures height to weight. Bulimia is when you binge eat and purge

With the help of ( Eating Disorder Hope, 2018) it shows us ways to tell the signs and symptoms of it. It says, “ Chronic restrictive eating or dieting, beyond the norm. Rapidly losing weight or being significantly underweight and emaciated. Obsession with calories and fat contents of food. Engaging in ritualistic eating patterns, such as cutting food into tiny pieces, eating alone, and/or hiding food. Continued fixation with food, recipes, or cooking; the individual may cook intricate meals for others but refrain from partaking. Amenorrhea: an abnormal absence of menstruation, or loss of 3 consecutive menstrual cycles. Depression or lethargic stage and development of lanugo: soft, fine hair that grows on face and body. Reported sensation of feeling cold, particularly in extremities with loss or thinning of

Someone who has experience or specializes in eating disorder will always help out too. I’ll also say having a background in cognitive therapy and cognitive behavioral therapy would be a good help too. Eating disorder is mostly is a disorder in the mind where emotionally and physically something is not matching up. Eating disorder is a disease that one counselor can not have or hold a certain degree or education to fully understand. Once case might not be the same as the other, but the main thing to have is therapy background to know how to properly assess and address a disorder like this