1. Anorexia Nervosa Kaylee Glenn

2. What is Anorexia Nervosa?  Anorexia is an eating disorder where the appropriate calorie intake is not consumed. This is usually do to a fear of being fat and/or gaining weight (even when they are underweight) and it leads to unhealthy weight loss.

3. Who is more at risk?  Someone who …  is a perfectionist  is feeling increased concern about their weight/shape  are undergoing a stressful life change  has a negative self-image  had eating/digestive problems as a child *It is more commonly seen in Caucasian women beginning in adolescence.

4. What are common symptoms?  Having an intense fear of becoming fat  (Females) Stopping of menstruation for 3+ months  Depression  Dry Mouth  Extreme sensitivity to cold  Loss of bone strength  Loss of body fat  Wasting away of muscle

6. Treatment  There are 3 main steps in treatment: 1.Getting back to a healthy weight 2.Starting to eat more food 3.Changing how you think about yourself and food

7. Treatment  Who are you likely to see?  Medical doctor  Psychologist  Counselors  Dieticians  What are the expected costs?  According to South Caroline Department of Mental Health, it can cost up to $100,000 for treatment

8. Case Study Amy’s Story  Hi, my name is Amy and I started having eating problems at the time of 5th grade. I was young, pretty, and very tall for my age so I was use to being around smaller kids who weighed less than me. Anorexia never hit me until 8th grade. I started out not eating breakfast and forgetting my lunch on purpose. This made my friends worried. They asked me why I was doing this, and I would simply respond "I'm not fast enough at basketball, and I'm not the best at soccer." They didn't understand, since I had always been a few pounds underweight. During that same summer I was down to 105 pounds and 5"8. I wasn't doing very well, so I sought help. It never really hit me about what I was doing to myself until I went to camp and I got sick. Since then I continued counseling and overcame anorexia.

9. Case Study Katie’s Story  I remember after one dance class my teacher called me over to speak privately with me, to tell me that I needed to lose weight if I was ever to become a professional ballerina. I was 7 at the time, and yet I have carried those words close to me for 12 years now. This time last year I had lost 20% of my body weight and I had not had my period in over a year, but it wasn't good enough. I would set deadlines for myself, like "I just need to be thin until prom, or senior week, then I'll let myself eat normally again." But every time I would continue on, narrowing my food options so that certain foods were actually evil to me. Eating candy and fat wasn't even an option to me, but I remember people constantly asking, "why can't you just eat it?" One particular night, my parents gave me a dreaded Ensure to drink because I had not eaten all day. I sat in front of them at the dinner table holding the drink sobbing because I could not physically bring myself to drink it. The more they encouraged me to eat, the more I refused. I'm recovering now after hospitalization, but it is still a struggle everyday.

10. Sources  Merrill, D. B., & Zieve, D. National Center for Biotechnology, PubMed Health. (2011). Eating disorder - anorexia Retrieved from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/PM H0001401/#adam_000362.disease.treatment  Smith, M, & Kovatch, S. (2011, Januray). Anorexia nervosa. Retrieved from http://www.helpguide.org/mental/anorexia_sign s_symptoms_causes_treatment.htm