Eating disorders affect more teens than one would commonly think. Your job is to find an article online, from a verifiable news source, that has been written within the last 3 years. A news article is a story; this is not a time to post a WebMD or Wikipedia type summary of what these disorders are. If you aren't clear what a news article looks like, I highly suggest you come by office hours or email me your potential article.
You must post the link to this article, followed by a 2 paragraph (minimum) summary, followed by a one paragraph (minimum) commentary paragraph on the article. In order to write three paragraphs about it, your article should be of significant length and relevant to our study of anorexia, bulemia, or body dysmorphic disorder.
http://www.eating.ucdavis.edu/speaking/told/anorexia/a41alison.html
ReplyDeleteThis story is about a girl named Alison who started to obtain anorexia when she attended a new school in the tenth grade. She started to become anorexic because of all the stresses from social life and the many activities that she participated in. She would eat hardly anything during the day and run at least 8 miles every day. When she came back from a trip to Germany she was 5'9 and under 100 pounds.
Toward her last few months of highschool she started to see better results and started gaining weight. When she went to college she started to decline in her results and ended up losing her scholarship and had to go home. She now goes to college at home and lives with her parents. She is still trying hard to become normal again.
I think that this girls story is very similar to Jessie's from the video we watched in class. This girl had a scholarship and attended college but lost it all due to her ED. Just like Jessie she was forced to leave college and go home. I think that ED ruin peoples lives and are a terrible disorder for people to have. Overall, it is amazing how food can effect a persons life so much.
http://www.empoweredparents.com/pages/Article15.htm
ReplyDeleteThis aritice shares that eating disorders are starting at a younger age now than it used to. "From 13 to 9..." Kids are starting to look at themselves judgementally and paying more attension to body image and not knowing how to be healthy and what they are doing wrong. Kids are dieting themselves and restricting what nutrients they need to grow at that age.
Doing this kills your sence of hunger, so many kids are losing that sence of knowing if they are hungry or not. They dont know when to stop or start because they've relied on their external feelings instead of internal feelings. The article says that this developes into long time issues so to help this takes long time treatment.
I think to help this kids should start learning more about nutrition at a younger age. This might stop them thinking "im fat" and change that to "im healthy." This would help those who have eating disorders and prevent them from happening.
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.nhs.uk/Conditions/Anorexia-nervosa/Pages/Realstorypg.aspx
ReplyDeleteThis article was a story about a young girl named Katie. It started when she was only 14 years old. She was going to a new school and had 3 other boys in her class. She felt stressed because she had no self confidence, so she focused that stress on her body. She decided that she would lose weight to feel better about herself. Along with going to a new school, her parents told her they were having problems with their marriage. That just added more stress. She talked about hearing a voice that told her to lose weight. She said over time the voice got louder and louder. She made a New Year’s resolution to lose weight. Her diet changed a lot; she took out carbs, dairy, and fat. The only things she ate was rice cakes, apples, and lettuce.
As she began to lose the weight, she felt better about herself. Before she felt like nothing was going right and when she began to lose the weight, she felt like that was something good. That only made the disorder worse. She was satisfied with what was happening to her body. She did more than just stop eating though; she also cycled from eight to fifteen miles a day. She was trying to reach what she thought was a state of perfection. After some time, she collapsed while taking her daily bike ride due to a minor heart attack. The doctors sent her home with a diet plan and gave her no more instructions then to eat. Soon her doctor realized she needed help, so they admitted her into a psychiatric ward in a hospital in Middlesbrough, she was there for the next nine months. They let her out the day before her 16th birthday, but she began to struggle once again with anorexia. She eventually got better, but was diagnosed with the early stage of osteoporosis. That is one of the long lasting effects of anorexia.
I think that this story is a good example of the extremity of anorexia. It was caused by stress. Teenagers now days are growing up with all kinds of stress. They either have family stress or they have stress from their peers. She also mentioned how she thought that skinny people got everything. She might have gotten that idea because she saw models. They make themselves so skinny and everyone else thinks that is why they are so pretty because they are so skinny. Disorders now days are so common and it is not good.
The story i read is about a girl named Kim. Kim started purging at 16. Her mom got remarried when Kim was in high school. At first Kim loved her new stepdad but soon he started sexually abusing her. Her mom didn't believe her so she started eating as a way to cope with the pain. At 16 she was 170 pounds her mom told her she was fat and would always believe it when she saw all the skinny girls at school. Her stepdad eventually pulled her out of school. Soon after that she began to purge.
ReplyDeleteKim believed that if she became skinny she could make her mom believe her about her stepdad abusing her. She lost a ton of weight the first 4 months into it. Then when she was 18 she joined the army and stopped purging on a regular basis. She felt good about herself and was proud of what she had done. Kim is now 25 and has not purged for 3 years. Lately she has been feeling the need to do it again and says she feels ugly and fat.
Kim needs to overcome this eating disorder. I dont think she knows how much it will effect her life and how dangerous it is. Being bulimic can control your life. I think before Kim can be happy again she needs to get help then she can figure out how to maintain a healthy diet and exercise. Eating disorders are not the only ways to lose weight which many people still dont understand.
http://www.eating.ucdavis.edu/speaking/told/bulimia/b78kim.html
http://www.eatingdisordershelpguide.com/
ReplyDeleteThis article is about a girl named Brenda that gets anorexia in her junior year of high school. She was a healthy beautiful girl, but lately things have been different. Brenda doesn’t look well, she has become extremely skinny. Her collar bone, wrists and shoulders stick out and to everyone, but herself she looks very skinny. She is one of the many girls in her teens and twenties that has an eating disorder and now she is apart a statistic study. The studies show there is seven million woman and one million men that struggle with eating disorders. Of those people, 86% say that the illness started before they reached the age of twenty, and just 50% report of being fully cured. Also studies show that teens and young adults are most vulnerable to acquire an eating disorder because of maturing.
Brenda started losing weight after she got sick from the flu. When she went back to school her friends commented on how good she looked. At first, she didn’t eat anything with fat on it. Then she began to exercise all the time; she couldn’t even sit still. She would also pretend to eat and hide food in her room. She became very skinny and her clothes became baggy on her, but she was still not satisfied on how skinny she looked. Brenda suffers from Anorexia Nervosa, but fortunately she is being treated.
I hope Brenda overcomes her illness with anorexia at her treatment center. She needs to understand that this is damaging her body and will have costly long term effects. Brenda needs to learn to be comfortable with her body figure and not have the desire to be skinny.
This is the story of a 15 year old girl with anorexia, her name is Claire.
ReplyDeleteI have bulimic and anorexic tendencies. I don't know how common that is, but it's what my current situation is. I've had it since I was about 12. So, it's been 3 years now. was overweight for awhile when I was younger. Then I leveled off and when I entered junior high, I started putting on weight again. In junior high, it's a fate worse than death to be fat. So I began to diet. I went from a size 14 to a size 8, and then began to take diet pills. I then went from an 8 to a 1.I have tried therapy, but I have had bad experiences with most therapists and nutritionists. Concerned Counseling has been the one place where I have a good experience with a therapist. I am getting ready to seek help outside of Concerned Counseling, and it's kind of scary to me, but I'm willing to try.
It is estimated that 8 million Americans have an eating disorder – seven million women and one million men
One in 200 American women suffers from anorexia
Two to three in 100 American women suffers from bulimia
Nearly half of all Americans personally know someone with an eating disorder
I personally think that Claire can push through this problem even at young age of fifteen, and I really want her to know that she is not alone in what she is experiencing and that there is hope for a better tomorrow. As well as that she realizes that shes perfect no matter what people tell her at school, or in the magizines. God made her in a specific image.
http://www.eating.ucdavis.edu/speaking/told/anorexia/a42laurie.html
ReplyDeleteThis story is about a girl who is 16 and is anorexic named Laurie. Laurie's anorexia problem started at a young age because she was overweight as a child. She said one of the reasons she wanted to lose weight is because of her counselor at her ymca after school program saying that she used to be as big as Laurie was. Another reason is when she would go shopping for clothes at age 11 Laurie was a size 14 and weighed 155 pounds. That summer Laurie started eating one fat free meal a day and doing sit-ups by the time school came Laurie went from size 14 to 11, she was happy with her results so she kept doing it. Things got bad in 7th and 8th grade he weighed 97 pounds. Laurie got to the point where she had to be hospitalized because she had hypothermia from not having enough body fat. She finally decided to recover, she fully recovered. However, now at age 16 she has started to lose weight again, she says she cant stop and that she likes losing weight again.
I think Laurie's story is similar to some of the ones we have watched in class. As children they are so full of happiness and life, then some person comes along and makes fun of their weight or they hat their body image. I think that Laurie can fully recover again and should stay with it this time and not give up.
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.tampabay.com/news/health/after-battling-anorexia-tarpon-springs-teen-finds-balance-reaches-out-to/1150806
ReplyDeleteThis is a news article about a girl named Bailey Monarch who had anorexia in her high school years. It all started for her at the age of 15 due to stress at school. At first she started to lose 5 pounds but then she started to lose 20 pounds, which alerted her family. They noticed that she started to be obsessed with the amount of calories that she eat, that it seemed if there was a person telling her not to eat so much or she get fatter. On a visit to their grandparents’ house, Bailey lost 7 pounds in a nine-day period. Bailey’s mother consulted with Dr. Pauline Powers, a psychiatrist and director of the USF Center for Eating and Weight Disorders in Tampa. Dr. Pauline Powers told Bailey’s other to get help for Bailey, her husband, and herself, but all the effort that she put in for trying to help Bailey did not go well. Bailey still continued to lose weight.
When her anorexia started to grow worse she started to lose hair and have blue fingers and toes from bad circulation, which eventually led up to her being paralyzed on her right side. She needed lots of help to recuperate, so her mom decided to look for an eating disorder program online and when she found it, the whole family went to San Diego. After half a year had past, Bailey had gotten better from her eating disorder and she wants to help others with similar problems so that she can share her experience with them.
I think that this news article is a bit short, but long enough for an inspiring story. Bailey wanting to help people is a good example for others to be influenced on. I think that Bailey went through a lot of suffering during the time when she had anorexia, and that she is very proud to be alive and help others understand what the need to do with their eating disorders. Bailey is going to help lots of people in the future.
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.healthyplace.com/eating-disorders/main/eating-disorder-first-hand-stories/menu-id-58/
http://www.state.sc.us/dmh/anorexia/statistics.htm
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ReplyDeletehttp://www.cbn.com/700club/features/amazing/emotions_laura_schultz.aspx
ReplyDeleteThis story is about a girl named Laura who struggled with bulimia. She discovered bulimia when she was in high school. Laura graduated the top of her class, was active in her community and a mentor at her church. She said that when she was younger, she automatically turned to food for comfort. She felt that it was an escape and she didn’t feel anything else when she was eating. It distracted her from everything that was going on in the world around her. Laura suffered from depression when she was in high school. She discovered that when she ate, she forgot about her depression. It soothed it and made it not seem as bad. As she was watching her body double and get bigger, she started getting very insecure and started to hate herself. Her family tried to help her and encourage her and make her feel better about herself, but she didn’t like who she was. She didn’t want to listen or get any help. She thought that if she could just lose the weight, then she would be happy.
Laura started forcing herself to throw up. She thought that she was only going to do it once, and that would be it. This led to something that she ended up doing ten times a-day. When she was in college, her roommate would leave for the weekends and she would disconnect the phone lines, so she wouldn’t be interrupted, and binge and purge and then take laxatives. Her family spent thousands of dollars on therapists, but nothing seemed work. Laura tried to commit suicide three times, but failed each time. One night she took about 45 laxatives and woke up on the floor in a pile of her vomit. She was very involved with her church and being a Christian, yet she was doing all of these self-destructive things to herself. Finally, she checked herself into Mercy Ministries, a home for girls. She finally realized that she had a choice and that she could make her own decisions and take her own responsibility. Now, Laura is done with depression and thoughts of suicide, and now has a job as a full-time staff member.
I am glad that Laura was able to get over her depression and her bulimia. It was a big step in her life. With the help of her family and God, she is doing really well now. She is in a good place. She gives advice to other people who have eating disorders. She tells them that they can overcome it if they just believe in God and in themselves. Laura’s story kind of relates to what we have been talking about. Bulimia is a huge problem, and Laura overcame it.
http://www.caringonline.com/feelings/byvictims/mayer.htm
ReplyDeleteIt started with a new years resolution to loose weight. Stephanie decided she was going to start dieting and loose 10 pounds. Then one evening at an italian resturant, Stephanie went into the bathroom after eating pizza and breadsticks, looked at herself in the mirror, and began to hear a voice in her head that told her she was weak and useless. She went into the bathroom stall, and there began her bulimia. From then on all Stephanie thought about was food. She began weighing herself six to twelve times a day, and was vomitting everyday. She was living on only bread, cerial, fat-free yogurt, and fruit.
She lost twenty pounds.
Stephanie's eating disorder made her extremely weak and gave her headaches. She bruised easily, often felt cold, got dizzy, and couldn't sleep at night. she even lost alot of hair when ever she washed it. Though worse than her physical pain, was her emotional pain. It had taken over her brain and all her thoughts of food and her fat body constantly weighed her down. Luckily one of Stephanie's friends told her parents about her concern, and Stephanie's parents caught her throwing up. After nine months of therapy, Stephanie began to start eating normally again, but still couldn't completely give up vomiting. She now knows that she was slowly killing herself, but still can't get rid of the voice in her head.
I think that Stephanie's story really shows how eating and anorexia can take over your life. So much of her time was wasted by her worrying about food and the way she looked. By just making that decision to vomit your first time, you are deciding to fight a lifetime battle with yourself. This story shows that once you have an eating disorder, it is not easy to get over and cure, and usually will haunt you for the rest of your life.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/health/19eat.html
ReplyDeleteThis article tells several stories. Amoung them, are the stories of three girls who each have E.D.O.S (Eating Disorder not Otherwise Specified). They each have their own version of an eating disorder, however because they didn't fit the criteria for Anorexia or Bulimia they could not recieve insurance for the proper medical care. The narrator (name never specified) carried a scale with her everywhere. She had specific days where she either didn't eat or did eat. Yet, she was told she didn't have an eating disorder!(This was in 1988.)
Another story within this article is the tale of Kris Shock. She used laxatives and restricted her food for many years. She didn't throw or binge, and was maintain an average weight.She recogized she had a problem and saw a doctor. Because she didn't qualify for Bulimia or Anorexia and she too was unable to recieve treatment. Because of this, she later became addicted to diet pills.
Finally, Stacey Taylor told her story. She was using laxatives constantly, and three up 3-11 times a day. However, she did not binge. This excluded her from being diagnosed bulimic, and she weighted "too much" to be anorexic.
This article also discusses the newest eating disorder, (E.D.O.S). Doctors think that it is equivilant to the other "real" eating disorders. They also believe that there should be no weight range that classifies you as anorexic.
I think that their stories are moving. They prove that it is possible for anyone to have an eating disorder; regardless of their size, shape, weight, or the way they have a problem eating in a healthy manner. There is still lots of research to do, but I think in the future we will have more eating disorders than we can ever imagine.
http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/HealthyWoman/story?id=808891&page=1
ReplyDeleteBecky marshal was 40 years old when she started to become anorexic.She stated out dieting and exercising but then took it to extremes. She lost 58 in a short period of time. Percentages of adult anorexia has dumbled from 5 percent to 10.Most Experts say this is because women look at celberties and as celberties age they stay thin.
Children that have anorexic parents are more likely to devlope it at one point in thier lives. Rachel Marsella decided to join her mother in her dieting and lost 100 pounds. Becky was hospitalized and now regained most of the wight yet stuggles to eat every day.
This article has taught me that anorexia is a dangerous way of life and should be taken seriously. The way americans percieve beauty is also ands to the cause of anorexia.
http://montclair.patch.com/articles/someday-melissa-reveals-secrets-of-bulimia-2
ReplyDeleteSomeday Melissa is a documentary that was created by the mother of a 19 tear old who passed away from her struggle with bulimia. Melissas disease begun when she was 14 years old, her symptoms included the usual;abnormal bowel functions, depression, anxiety, excessive exercising, bingeing, and purging. Melissa was described as a talented and above average teenager with much potential. After a continuos fight and even a stay in rehab, she passed away in 2009.
The film has been used by many counselors and facilities to help end the war against eating disorders. Danna Markson the producer and a pschyotherpaist spoke at the film. Markson was a bulimic as a teen and lost 50 pounds when she became consumed by the disease. Marksons understanding and ability to relate to other bulimics made her the oerfect spokesperson for the film.
I believe that although Melissas story is unfortunate, her mothers idea to make a story of her life is a blessing. Sharing the story will hopefully help other people with eating disorders and hopefully save future lives. I believe that with Danna's help this film could largely impact people and help overcome these deadly diseases
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March 25, 2011
http://www.tampabay.com/news/health/after-battling-anorexia-tarpon-springs-teen-finds-balance-reaches-out-to/1150806
This article talks about different girls in the Tampa Bay area that have dealt with anorexia. Bailey Monarch at age 15 had gotten anorexia. Stress from school triggered it and she thought that food was the only thing she could control. Bailey’s fingers and toes turned blue from lack of circulation. Her hair fell out. She became paralyzed on her right side. Bailey had lost 345% of her body weight.
Bailey became obsessed with counting calories. She said it was almost like another person was inside her, "telling you, no, don't eat. You're so fat. You need to lose weight." Bailey continued to lose weight. Her doctor said her condition was so bad she would have to be hospitalized. It took about a year and a half for Bailey to get from diagnosis to recovery. Her mother says the program in California saved her daughter's life.
I learned from this article that anorexia is like an addiction to losing weight. And that the need to control something in your life doesn’t have to be food. That anorexia is easy to start but very hard to stop doing. And anorexia causes drastic changes as your think you’re getting prettier you’re actually destroying your body.
I AM SO SORRY, I THOUGHT I HAD POSTED THIS ON TUESDAY, BUT I GUESS IT DIDN'T LOAD OR SOMETHING.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.healthyplace.com/eating-disorders/main/eating-disorder-first-hand-stories/menu-id-58/page-4/#recovery
Den was a girl who came out of a bad childhood, and entered her teenage years with a very low self esteem. She started having problems at age 12, it made her feel like she had control. As she got older, her condition was not getting any better, by age 16 she weighed 84 pounds, and her periods had completely stopped. She was hospitalized, but the thought of eating only made her nauseas.
She received medications but quickly relapsed into anorexia when she lost her support. She had a heart attack due to years of self starvation, which had damaged her body permanently. After he heart attack, she was in the hospital for five months and along with medical help, she received therapy. After eighteen months, she finally regained her strength and began to recover. She says she could not of done it without the support of her familiy, and the therapy she has received.
Den did not have a huge problem with her weight, it was mostly just her life. She felt like her anorexia could help her get in control. She became very skinny, and starving herself really hurt her major organs, especially her heart. Althoughn she went through a long journey, it was the therapy and phsychiatric help that really pushed her to recover. She still goes to therapy which really seems to be helping her. Also, the support she has from her family is something that has also pushed her to recover. She wants to be healthy, so she can help the other people that were in her position.
Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1315734/Anna-Wood-15-went-post-Christmas-diet-dies-anorexia-year.html
ReplyDeleteAnna Woods was a normal 15 year old girl that started dieting December of 2009 after she agreed to join in with her mother’s plans to put off a few pounds for the new year of 2010. But Anna got more caught up on the whole "dieting" idea. Her teachers at the independent school of Wimbledon High school in south-west London started noticing her rapid weight loss and her parents were called by the school nurse after the coach called regarding this concern. After a few weeks Anna's mom had stopped dieting but she noticed Anna still continued eating less and less food. She would hide food, not eat, and throw up. Her parents asked their doctor to check up on her health and Anna started seeing a therapist. But still Anna did not want to eat. Anna's parents did not know to what extent her disorder was until Anna was admitted to hospital. With the doctor's help she was able to gain a few pounds back but, so for Christmas of 2010 December she was allowed to go home.
Being unable to not start her academic year at school until the next school year Anna got a job not too far from home. But to this job of hers, Anna's parents didn't know she was taking the 6 mile way to school on foot and not eating her lunches. Anna on one of those walks to her job she collapsed and was admitted to the hospital. The doctor's said she had a perforated ulcer and that she needed surgery but being in the state she was in Anna had little chances of surviving. Even though after the operation she managed to live through it Anna's body was too weak and unable to heal itself. Anna's organs began failing and she suffered brain damage, paralysis, a collapsed lung and could not breathe without a ventilator.
Anna Wood died March 26, 2011 of a heart attack at the age of 16.
I think in my opinion Anna should have never began dieting with her mom. Also there was stuff her parents could have done like actually send her to an eating disorder rehabilitation center. Because having Anna at home I understand from her parent’s point of view was to have their daughter home under their care but this was only giving her a chance to continue her disorder. They should of taken her to school and not let her go by themselves. It so sad to see a young girl, at 15, get this disorder and loose her life to it just a year later at 16. Really shows that there's only so much the human body can take especially at such a young age. Her parents now are trying to share their tragic story of the passing of their daughter to other parents to try to prevent others from feeling the pain losing a child to a disorder. Hopefully more parents will get educated on eating disorders and tragedies like this may be prevented.
My story is about a girl named Emily. Emily was very serious gymnast who strived for perfectiona. She had two siblings, a sister and a brother. Her sister excelled at everything she did, varsity hockey, varsity track, varsity gymnastics, and varsity cheerleading. Emily's brother made a varsity high school while in the seventh grade. Emily felt that she was always in the shadows of her brother and sister. She tells us that she needed her parents to love her and needed attention so desperatly that she took that need to an extreme.
ReplyDeleteEmily became anorexic when she was in the eighth grade. She would pack food to eat at the gym, but not eat it, and would just not eat lunch. As a gymnast Emily felt a lot of stress to be skinny, fit, etc. Her parents were in denial about the whole situation. When Emily hit 68 pounds she realized she had a problem and checked herself into the university hospital.
Emily credits much of her recovery to her brother. During her sickness, he would pick her up for lunch, missing one of his classes, just to make sure she ate lunch. Her brother was very worried about her and knew there was a problem, even if their parents denied it. Emily describes seeing ehr brother cry at the hospital and knowing, at that moment, that she needed to get better. Personally, I believe that Emily's brother is the reasom that Emily got help and got better. He was her rock when her parents didn't care. I also believe that being a gymnast it was likely for her to be self conscious because gymnasts are very little and skinny. Emily was under a lot of stress and pressure, leading to her dissatisfaction with herself and her problems with self worth.
http://www.eating.ucdavis.edu/speaking/told/anorexia/a25emily.html
This is the story of a girl named J. Hoffman who had to battle Anorexia.
ReplyDeleteJ was 32 years old when she decided to strive for recovery. She says that on the outside her life was perfect. She did well in school and was often called pretty. But, on the inside she was broken. At age 16 she was date raped, and the trauma never left her the same. Hoffman tells that the guy who raped her told her that if she were skinnier she would be his girlfriend. This made her think that maybe if she were thinner the rape would not have occurred.
Hoffman began to not only hate but blame herself. She started taking laxatives to lose weight. On December 18, 2006 Hoffman began recovery, and on Dcember 31, 2006 she took her last laxative. Hoffman has been without laxatives since then, and although she knows it's a long road to full recovery, she has never given up hope.
http://www.bulimia.com/client/client_pages/recovery_myjourney.cfm