Negative Effects Of Anorexia Nervosa

Anorexia is a debilitating mental disorder. It affects people’s social life, self-esteem, and personal distress. Anorexia has a negative effect on the social lives of those diagnosed. Due to the obsessive behaviour of those diagnosed, they become overwhelmed with the thought to work out, to cut their calorie intake, to lose more weight, which causes their social life to suffer. Portia de Rossi, model and actress, suffered from anorexia nervosa by binging, purging and starving herself. To hide her illness she “creat[ed] a character” or image of someone acceptable to society, which “led to [her] being very isolated” (youtube). It is hard for people with mental illnesses because these disorders are “very disruptive…to the person struggling…[and]…to friends and family” (casa
Their self-esteem suffers due this belief of being heavier than they are. Many who develop this disease are not confident and have body image issues. They are constantly assessing or staring at themselves in the mirror, wanting to be skinnier and lose more weight. … Rudine Howards was a long time sufferer of anorexia. She was featured on Oprah from 1989 to her unfortunate death in 1994. Her mental illness had consumed her life and she struggled to stop. During Oprah’s heart prints featuring Rudine, you can she her struggle finding the will and method to break away from the anorexia consuming her. She was seen talking to Traci Gold, a woman who had recently overcome her own anorexia, agonizingly ask “but how do you do it” (youtube). She can be quoted saying that “she can’t do it” when she was faced with someone who had won against their illness (yutube). Rudine had many times, throughout her life, overcome and relapsed back into her anorexic ways. Personal distress is a big aspect of being