ANOREXIA NERVOSA Introduction: Eating Disorders are characterized by sever disturbances in eating behavior. The essential features of Anorexia Nervosa are that the individual refuses to maintain a minimal normal body weight, is intensely afraid of gaining weight, and exhibits a significant disturbance in the perception of the shape or size of his or her body. The individual maintains a body weight that is below a minimally normal level for age and height. When Anorexia Nervosa …showed first 75 words of 1402 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1402 total…found with this study was the fact the patients who were chosen only had the disorder for approximately eleven (11) months. I think a larger variety of people who have had the disorder for longer should have been chosen. In doing this paper I found that there are many way and treatment types for this disorder. While I have only briefly discussed two of them, I feel that I have a better understanding on this topic.