Eating Disorders: Anorexia And Bulimia Nervosa

Anorexia (Ana) and Bulimia (Mia), are the sisters girls would not want in their lives. Anorexia and Bulimia are eating disorders. In one hand, the author Marie Susziski informs that Anorexia’s patients “tend to think they are overweigh when they are actually very thin. They may eat fewer than 1,000 calories a day, exercise excessively, vomit, use laxatives, and take diuretics, or give themselves enemas as they continually attempt to lose more weight.” In the other hand, Susziski also says that people with Bulimia “tend to binge on food and then compensate for the calories by purging – by deliberate vomiting or inducing diarrhea with laxatives, exercising excessively, or fasting.” At the end, Anorexia and Bulimia is the same dangerous, eating disorder, whether people choose to not eat at all or eat in abundance and then vomit. With my previous explanation about the Anorexia and Bulimia disorder, I will introduce Amy’s story from the site Kelty Eating Disorders. While
She was not going to let the doctor and her mom keep her there, so she lied. They let her go, simple as that. Which makes me wonder what kind of doctor does not notice when someone is seriously sick and needing help. Anyways, Amy’s mom was devastated and in tears, seeing her mom in those conditions made her think about changes, but she wasn’t ready to make a change. So, she started eating in front of her parents, because “that was the only way to get them out of her back”, as she expressed. However, nothing could stop her, she exercised even more to burn those extra calories. She kept the lie for many years until she was 23-24 years old; I do not know how that was possible. At that time, her parents could not do anything, she was an adult and the owner of her life. Well at least from everyone else’s point of view, for Amy, the owner of her life was the eating