Word: anorexia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Less severe depression is more prevalant among the 18-22 age bracket, but Davis says depression among college students is often a root malady connected to other mental illnesses such as anorexia nervosa or bi-polar manic depression...
Spencer denies the allegations of rampant adultery, with one of his lawyers sneering that Lockwood's team could dig up the names of just three of the earl's alleged dozen mistresses. Meanwhile, the earl, who has always been public about his wife's anorexia and neuroses, has briefed the court on Lockwood's alcohol and drug dependency, stating bluntly, in response to her demands for a sizable settlement, that "I am most fearful that should Victoria receive significantly more money from me than she does at present, she will be unable to resist the lure of the substances...
...breakthrough came as a Gulf War veteran turned heroin addict in the 1996 drama Courage Under Fire. In a move reminiscent of De Niro's weight gain for Raging Bull, Damon dropped 40 lbs. for a two-day scene opposite Denzel Washington. It created an anorexia-like medical condition (from which he only recently recovered), but the intensity of his performance convinced the industry that Damon was a serious actor...
...Lasson in Paris, "a second one-night stand, four years after the first." The move was intended as a pre-emptive strike against plans by News of the World to tell Lasson's account of the couple's trysts. In the midst of all this, Lockwood was battling anorexia, a condition, it appears, Spencer did not always deal with sensitively. In a widely reported incident, Spencer apparently told guests at his 30th birthday party that his father had always advised him to find a woman who would stick with him through thick and thin and that "those...
...dispassionately, to make us feel sorry for her. She was a terribly mixed-up kid. We felt close to her (when we were not infuriated by her) because she represented in herself so many of the worries our own children are likely to foist upon us--disappointing school grades, anorexia and bulimia, unsuitable young men, a tendency to show off, a preoccupation with clothes and publicity, a rotten marriage, single motherhood and trouble with the in-laws...