Word: mckenna
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Women's self-esteem gets wrapped up in body shape. "There's an equation: if I don't have a nice body, I'm not worth anything. This seems to be a pervasive attitude. Many charming, attractive, lovely young women come in thinking they're `gross,'" says McKenna...
...issue is self-perception, says McKenna. "Plenty of people may tell them they look great, but they don't believe it." she says. "And these are extremely successful people...
...difficult to classify who is most vulnerable to an eating disorder, says McKenna. "One type of person who is commonly described as a stereotype is the controlled perfectionist, the highly successful and driven individual," she says...
Attempts to cure bulimics and anorexics take different routes because of the difference in attitude about their behavior, according to McKenna. While bulimics tend to feel guilty about their behavior, anorexics don't see it as abnormal...
...this paper, once the semester's over, when I'm done with my thesis.' And then they realize they cannot stop. By the time bulimics come in for help, they may have been bulimic for four years. They come in and say 'make this stop' or 'cure me,"' says McKenna...