The topic of my eating disorder can be attacked from so many different perspectives that I could almost write every college paper on a completely different aspect of it. I am intrigued not only by my own eating disorder but also that of others. I have found that no two eating disorders are the same, and no two people suffering will be able to recover with the same recovery techniques.
Those who have not personally experienced or known someone who has experienced an eating disorder will find my interest in such a topic boring and irrelevant. I can however explain what intrigues me so much that I feel the need to discuss eating disorders in every class that I can manage.
We are all sick. Us with eating disorders, but our bodies react differently. A young woman who had been suffering for ten years was told by her doctor at the hospital that she had osteoporosis and that her bones would always be brittle and weak. A military man on the unit had “contracted” his eating disorder when he injured his Achilles tendon and could not exercise like he had in the past. My own eating disorder was brought on by my lack of self in middle school where I filled the social norm that people told me I had (anorexic). In treatment, my blood test results were never out of the ordinary and my blood pressure and heart rate was higher than the norm, which is abnormal because those with eating disorders usually have lower blood pressure and heart rates.
What I have come to question about eating disorders is how they are “contracted” as mental disorders and how they affect the body medically.
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